(Theorycrafting) Sona Relaunch Idea

So, I was thinking earlier about as a character. It's intriguing to me how her Classic skin and backstory depicts her as high-society and refined, elegant and beautiful. And yet, she performs in Pentakill, with and . Three of these are malicious entities from the Shadow Isles, and one is a crazed berserker warrior. These don't seem like they would be Sona's crowd, and yet there she is jamming alongside them.

This suggests to me that Sona has a hidden side to her personality, some kind of secret darkness that makes her feel comfortable around dark spectral entities and violent brutes. And of course she must have some means to stand her ground against these people, a way to hold her own as part of the group.

So, I thought it'd be a fun theorycraft exercise to make a Relaunch that features a Sona more... in tune with her dark side. A kit more focused on aggressively debilitating enemy units combat effectiveness rather than buffing allies.

Not proposing this as an actual rework, just thought it'd be a fun exercise to completely overhaul Sona's in game identity and playstyle, and maybe make something with a little more personality. I envision this "relaunch" as a semi-durable medium-to-front line mage who benefits from getting into people's faces to create havoc with her songs.

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Passive: Melodic Domination

• Sona dominates weak willed minds in her presence. Up to three enemy minions near Sona (prioritizing Cannon and Super minions) will attack the target of Sona's basic attacks instead of normal targets. Sona claims champion kill bounty from these dominated minion's attacks.

Q: Hymn of Misery

• Damages nearby enemies (prioritizing Champions first and Dominated Minions last) and afflicts with Misery, increasing all damage they receive from allied units by 10%

W: Melancholy Aria

• Nearby enemy units are damaged and slowed for 2 seconds.

E: Sepulchral Song

• Sona plays a dirge that saps the will to fight from her enemies, siphoning Attack Damage and Ability Power from all nearby enemy champions. Sona retains half of the siphoned stats, and transfers the other half to her closest allied champion. If no allied champions are in range, Sona retains 100% of siphoned attributes. Does not stack with repeated casts.

R: Puppet's Cantata

• Sona channels for 1 second to wrench at the very souls of champions in a target area, playing a piercing crescendo of music that lifts targets airborne for the duration of the channel. Each champion that is afflicted with Misery will add .25 seconds to the channel duration.