Why Does Sona's Ult still increase in mana cost with rank?

Inx·8/6/2014, 5:00:21 PM·4 votes·625 views

Riot has been making a habit of standardizing ultimate mana costs at 100 mana. We can see this across literally every character in bot lane EXCEPT sona. Even janna, leona, and nami, who arguably have ultimates that are just as impactful as sona's no longer suffer from this problem, and yet sona still is not allowed to have this benefit. Why say you want to standardize ultimate mana costs when you skip over such an obvious one with a recent update?

4 Comments

FaerKhan8/6/2014, 6:23:32 PM4 votes

Because Riot hates Sona and all other healers. Certain people think Sona's ult is too strong to exist, and so desire to gate it absurdly.

darkdill8/6/2014, 7:02:54 PM1 votes

Because as Riot puts it, an instant AOE lockdown on a support Champion is too powerful.

If you're gonna counter with Nami, remember that Aqua Prison is SLOW, and easy to dodge. Sona's ult is fast and hard to dodge.

Doesn't mean I agree with them, but that's their reason.