How is sona considered balanced?

by?

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She isnt. She is considered weak.

She is in no way weak. Ahri in the contrary is.

Surprisingly difficult.

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Sona is actually surprisingly difficult once you get into playing her.

she has, i list:

• THE lowest base stats out of all champions in the game

• Huge manacosts for an enchanter support which can be depleded even if you buy 6 times and have full mana runes

• Easy to land poke but insanely weak utility around it. her movement speed boost and her shield have such a low range youre basically forced to cuddle her to get some Juice from her skills, which in turn only makes champions like lux, vel, xerath and viktor VERY happy lategame, first 2 mentioned being more popular than i'd like it

• Ultimate is literally her only reliable tool for gamechange in lane AND lategame.

• Very feast or famine support. Sona is one of the very few supports that suffers from Riven syndrome, as i like to call it. basically if shes ahead, lol good luck. BUT if she is behind she will feed next Level without even trying to.

• Very kill steal-ish playstyle. Honestly, Sona is the main reason why "supp 11/0/2 assist adc with lich bane" became a meme. Her Q AA passive are such feisty killsteal machines, not only does it unnerve her team, it also denies an AD carry the full gold potential they Need to get ahead themselves.

Considering all These points divided already are massively exploitable weaknesses that damage both a champ and his teamcomp, you can imagine how difficult it is to master a champion that has ALL OF THEM in one.

Sona is the only enchanter i personally consider weak, maybe unbalanced, but not op. If you wanna talk about OP support i direct you to Miss "2.95 a minute" and "The Dick tastes Purple"

The time when people call ahri easy and sona difficult. Idk what to say.

Sona is definitely in the stronger side than balanced, but not broken. Her w gives her whole team ardent censor passive and that is really strong you know.

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im gonna go with an unpopular opinion and say she is balanced

Sona has a win rate 53.15% /9.56% pick rate with an average 0.5% ban rate for Platinum+ players whilst the very best Sona's are earning a win rate of 57.01% with the average rank of these top players being in Diamond III.

LoLalytics ranks Sona at 19 amongst all champions earning a tier grade of Diamond.

This ranking takes into account the win rate of Platinum+ players, the pick/ban influence of Sona, the win rate and average rank of the best Sona players.

https://lolalytics.com/ranked/worldwide/current/platinum/plus/champion/Sona/

sona has one damage ability Q... her W is a heal that is single target, her E is a small ms buff her auras she has to be near the front line or right next to the adc in most cases for any of it to be effective.

she is slow, squishy , has no defense , her ult is an aoe skill shot.

as someone else said she is feast or famine .... she has poke... but in terms of legit game change playing ability its hit n miss. she legit has to flash ult into someone in order to make plays

risk and reward

Best ahri player has 55.30% winrate and ranked 92 from all champs. Sad. Ahri also being feast or famine and game changing ability being charm zzz.

Also if you look at diamond and above she has less than 50% winrate. I don't consider plat players good. Ahri also has high pickrate because of her new skin.

Edit: You consider Sona balanced but ahri has less winrate than the best sona or the average winrate. Using your data either Ahri has to be weak or Sons has to be strong

She is kinda beyond balanced especially with Ardent Censer. With it's unique passive going off on Heals and Shields. In which she is one of the Few if only support that can AOE shield the entire team to proc the passive with 1 skill. The only other Support that can do is are Soraka with Ult and Janna with Ult. While Sona can proc it with W.