@Riot Whats the purpose of those Sona changes?

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Or because she requires a very specific matchup to excel? That "very specific matchup" doesn't happen as much anymore especially higher up, and therefore people blindly believed that she is "weak". Talk about meta shifts after season 4 because tanks are what's tough against Sona, not just those backline mages anymore.

Hell, we can apply this line to nearly every "weak" champ today if that's the case, like Lulu support. She has "never seen play", and therefore must be weak, right? Even with competent teammates and in the right hands? No, because "she is never played higher up".

Come on, you should know better, and not be this generic.

Except I'm not being generic. I'm not saying I'm a Master player or anything, but if you really think on it, there isn't a time where Sona's generally useful or desired...period. Disengage has its stars. Engage has its stars. Even damage dealing support options has its stars. Sona's lacking in everything and doesn't provide her own thing to suggest picking her over anyone else for just about any situation. You could say she requires specific match-ups, but in her "good" match-ups her opponents can still play around her due to one thing or another, and in her bad match-ups she can be completely ran over if the enemy has match-up knowledge. Anyone she's plain stronger than in the support role at this point is either some dark horse pick sent bot lane like Poppy, Trundle, or Shen...or is just weak in the support role period. On that point, when DOES someone use Sona, anyway? Janna can peel people hard if Sona lands her ult without hitting her, hard-engage supports send her running for the hills, Braum blocks the number 1 thing Sona does, Soraka's positioning puts her well out of Sona's reach and heals all her damage, Morgana's E makes Sona's R useless and her Q dooms her if she's hit, Zyra is a low-key nightmare for Sona due to her high damage, and now Brand's getting some of that too...there's a shit ton of bad for Sona, but there's rarely a time someone says "Yup, I'm going for Sona. This is the match-up!". If you said that about Sona at that point, you could probably do just as much on a good deal of other picks while still having far better play-making/stopping potential than you would if you used Sona.

As for the Lulu comment...yes...yes you CAN very much say that about Lulu. People see what support Lulu offers, realize they can either get that and more or just compensate for it by picking someone else, and she continues to stay fallen off in the support role. Fortunately for Lulu, she can flex to solo lanes where she can focus on keeping herself alive, and now she's useful again. You can look at Lulu's stats and see her support stats are outshined by her solo lane stats rather consistently. To make things worse, Riot's nerfs to Lulu are making her solo laning worse, but they aren't putting anything into her supporting role to compensate, so she's just losing efficiency as a champ overall. Just cause I focus on my favorite champ doesn't mean I don't think yours can't use some serious attention...as well as a few others. ->