Lich Bane Sona [Semi-Rant, I suppose. ]

Itadaki Seieki··1 votes·1,112 views

Honestly, this is a semi-rant, you don't have to read it, I just want to vent my annoyance of a certain item on Sona that I've been seeing built WAY more than it should.

Please refrain from the constant " get gud, l2poke" or whatever. I've heard it enough.

Lately, with the new skin coming out, I've seen nothing but Sona instalock supports, first off, the one thing that strikes me odd. " Oh, this Sona has 47 AP. " Instant thought is Lich Bane. Seemingly, the lane is just poke and farm for both sides, no champions killed. Both sides recall with 2000 gold. Without hesitation, I always check the enemy laners items.

" Oh, Sona rushed Sheen and Ather Wisp. " Disregarding ANYTHING related so support, the enemy proceed to chunk my support and myself with the poke that she has plus the passive sheen proc. I don't understand why people are going support when they're only in it to build a heavy hitting Lich Bane ( with nothing but AP afterwards. )

I can see Karma building AP as a Mage-Support, Lulu as well. However, seeing Sona just waltzing in with a " Oh here's half your health lets just go with that. " Really irks. Me, and even when I build MR, it just doesn't stand up to her damage.

I 'unno, I'm just tired of it. It irks me that everytime I play Sona, people feel the need to call me out for NOT building a Lich Bane when I build more tanky so I can support for a longer time in a fight.

As I said, this is just a semi-rant, you can ignore me all you want. I honestly know people will "defend it" and I'll casually read it as I do all board replies. Thank you for your time for reading my rant, and I hope I can look forward to some interesting replies from both sides of the spectrum. item 3100 Sona

5 Comments

Sarutobi3 votes

I'm not sure what exactly is wrong here. You are upset that a certain item that is really good with Sona. So because of this people built it way too often! If it works well why is that a problem? Don't get me wrong as a support main Sona is one of my go to, but I'll admit when I get lich bane it's usually after I have built my main support item, at least second tier boots, sightstone, and unholy Grail. Granted I'll probably get a sheen after sightstone, but it just works so well with her!

Again I just don't see what's to get angry about. It would be like complaining that an ADC bought static Shiv, or blood thruster, or if a mid bought DFG (lol), zonya! There are some items that just works best with certain roles/champions!

RedCyclone2 votes

Hey don't blame us Riot made AP the only way to play Sona now

Abyssphere1 votes

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Hey don't blame us Riot made AP the only way to play Sona now

Exactly. And it's not like her defensive spell scales well or anything, she hasn't got much more than early poke going for her anymore.

AnOstrichWithPMS1 votes

sona is kind of a stupid champ , shes tied for lowest mobility on supports and she has to go into auto attack range to fully deal her poke and if she is caught by anything she dies at 1teemo per second

you might as well just afk in base if the enemy support is a thresh or a blitzcrank or a leona or morgana or even taric

or if the mid is an incredibly mobile assasssin

these 2 things combined will = 99% of your games so you might as well play someone else

Erockandroll1 votes

Cheese tactic. Should be punished. If the Enemy Sona, is rushing lich bane, then she's not getting a sight stone I presume. That would leave the duo lane Vulnerable. But it's the Responsibility of the entire team to punish these mistakes. If they don't get punished, then you're out of luck.

You mentioned Karma, Their are some support that can do their Job (peeling, zoning, etc) Using Damage. And they work. I would sometimes pick these kinds of supports because they can act as a second APC. (usually to take over for the ADC if they fck up) The thing with sona is that she's a bit versatile. You can build Flat AP to bolster her heals, shields, MS buffs, but because she has like 1 offensive spell, you need a lichbane to turn into an APC.

There is also an Elo discrepancy. In LCS, and other high Elo's, the support is not going to have nearly enough gold to be effective at doing damage, compared to the laners. In lower Elo, not so much, because their CS numbers are not Nearly as good.

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