Why The Sona Nerf?

AlmightyWisk·Feb 24, 2015·4 votes·925 views

This Sona nerf is absolutely not needed she was buffed from 325 to 330 for a reason. Sona already has a weak level 1, She is now in a tier where someone with this base movement speed has a slow, a stun, or a root by level 2 or 3 and she has nothing until level 6, please reconsider, the buff she's receiving is moot compared to these bad nerfs I bring this up because I main support and Sona was my first support champ so I am a bit biased, but this is not going to balance Sona this is going to make her more difficult to catch up.

10 Comments

Darth Pixy MisaFeb 24, 20153 votes

The nerf is silly, less ppl will buy DJ Sona if she cant do anything. Why isn't a exec putting his foot down to stop these nerfs or at least delay them till after Dj Sona comes out?

AriafluxFeb 24, 20152 votes

The "buff" was a bug, they explained it in the previous patch notes.

It's either ship with the bug or no Sona for a whole patch.

IcyPepperFeb 24, 20151 votes

We'll see soon if they're going to keep it or not.

Something tells me there might be a chance it was a "bug" they decided to keep (though it might really be a bug, so who knows?).

AlmightyWiskFeb 24, 20151 votes

This hurts my soul.

AriafluxFeb 24, 20154 votes

Actually it's confirmed a bug:

5.3 Patch Notes

Sometimes when the skins team takes on large projects, they take a 'snapshot' of the champion's files to work on, including certain hard-coded values like base stats and movement speeds. Unfortunately, when the team finally finishes and implements the skin, those old values can be reintroduced to the game, overwriting any recent balance changes made. There have been a few cases of this happening in the past (Kayle's attack speed per level when we released Riot Kayle, Galio's Q when we released Gatekeeper Galio, etc), but rarely with so many 'reverts' to the champion. Unfortunately, Sona went through a small update during the time we were working on her skin, so she's gone back to all of her old base stats pre-champion update. While we considered shipping 5.3 with Sona disabled, we don't think the full extent of these changes merits taking her away from so many, so we're just fully communicating what's happened while we work on a bugfix as soon as possible.

After that, the very first PBE patch has her reverting her stats.

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/02/210-pbe-update.html#bal1

AlmightyWiskFeb 25, 20151 votes

Ok i missed that, thank you.

Sailor MintFeb 24, 20151 votes

It's 325 on Live atm. Her base stats were hotfixed within 48 hours of 5.3's release.

PryotraFeb 24, 20151 votes

It's like people don't even read patch notes before bitching and moaning about balance changes.

There is no excuse on this one, they even segregated the part where they talked about this being a bug at the top of the page, and then mentioned it in the intro paragraph as well as give it it's own link separate from the other champions stating that it was a bug.

-1 for trying to fear monger over a bug that they gave you every heads up about.

AlmightyWiskFeb 25, 20151 votes

Take a look at Ariaflux's post which calmly and rationally explains my mistake that i missed while reading, now take a look at yours, you literally came on here, flamed me and left, downvote to you for contributing nothing to this, downvote for flaming with no real explanation why besides your very cynical opinion, and downvote for pretty much acting like a jerk.

PryotraFeb 25, 20151 votes

k. I honestly don't give two shits. You wanna know why?

Votes are meant to affect visibility. I don't want this topic being seen, as it's pointless and frankly ignorant. Hence my -1.