As a Sona Main, this is not the skin I wanted

Sonasaurous·9/10/2018, 6:42:17 PM·42 votes·12,685 views

inb4: Odyssey Sona looks...pretty amazing. In my opinion, I think it looks pretty nice, and I like the aesthetic on her, even if it does make her look a bit more like a Nami/Karma lovechild. However...I like the hood. A lot. I never really thought about Sona with a hood, but I love it.

That being said...

I really wanted Star Guardian Sona. That is, like, my dream Sona skin. And it seems like a lot of people also wanted a Star Guardian Sona skin. The potential to get a SG Sona this year is one of the only things I was looking forward to, but now, if there was going to be a Star Guardian lineup (aren't there a bit too many cosmic/galaxy-esque skins this year?), Sona will not be included (because God-forbid she is, then the community will rage and bring up the list of champions who haven't had a skin in X years).

Just a bunch of mixed feelings now.

[sona-playing]

74 Comments

Sukishoo9/10/2018, 6:46:45 PM13 votes

Maybe next year. We don't even know for sure if they were gonna do Star Guardian this year as they said in the Dev Blog video near the start of the year that there were plenty of new things and other themes they might be skipping from year to year

Oleandervine9/10/2018, 6:48:11 PM9 votes

I love this skin, and I honestly don't think Sona needs a SG skin. She's already pretty heavily influenced by Hatsune Miku on her own, so she's already shaped and influenced by Japanese culture, to the point where a SG skin might be overkill.

I don't think we'll be getting SGs this year. They usually released around this exact time of year, so the fact that there's another large event instead points to a skip, like the Bloodmoon skipping.

Sirsir9/10/2018, 6:50:14 PM7 votes

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but now, if there was going to be a Star Guardian lineup (aren't there a bit too many cosmic/galaxy-esque skins this year?), Sona will not be included (because God-forbid she is, then the community will rage and bring up the list of champions who haven't had a skin in X years).

Just a bunch of mixed feelings now.

[sona-playing]

To be fair thats not stopped them before

MF is my Waifu9/11/2018, 6:50:50 PM5 votes

SG Sona please... :(

EdgeLady9/11/2018, 1:09:16 AM4 votes

I'm sure Sona will get a Star Guardian skin eventually. The thing is, they might not even be doing Star Guardian this year, since we're so close to Worlds and the holiday event skins, not to mention Ezreal's big visual update and the new flower mage. There might not be time for Riot to put out an event for their biggest skin line in between all this.

Sõna9/11/2018, 3:24:17 AM4 votes

I have nothing to say, just sad, disappointed. I like this skin's particles, theme and its sfx, but not with the model, I honestly feel it looks weird compared to the splash. Everything is alright except the model ONLY.

Elipo9/11/2018, 7:15:21 PM3 votes

I really want more sg skins. I liked the guardians of the galaxy video but this skinline isn't for me. I hope next year we get more SG and that the leak was fake. The supposed leak said next star guardians would be lb sona quinn shyvanna and zyra, and from those I only see Sona as SG

I'd rather have Diana Leona Katarina Ekko Xayah Rakan Kayn Annie Nami Riven and of course Sona

ZevBenjamin9/10/2018, 8:01:07 PM3 votes

Don't worry, im sure Riot will do SG Sona , as well as SG Irelia next year (:

SugeMinPikk9/10/2018, 9:26:05 PM3 votes

And you're gonna buy it anyway because you're a Sona main

ModKnightsKemplar9/10/2018, 10:20:12 PM3 votes

I feel you.

We finally get Taric chromas and they are on his only skin that doesn't have gems (Pool Party, for people who pay no attention to the best champ in the game).

Chromas are even named after gems. How the heck have we gone this long without more Taric colors with gems?!

Eleshakai9/11/2018, 3:03:05 PM2 votes

But... magical girls have to say magic words to transform, so how could Sona be one?

ChizPizaZane9/11/2018, 3:06:02 AM1 votes

you already have a shit ton of skins, so zip it

Blue Moon Wolf9/11/2018, 3:02:11 PM1 votes

Now you know how MonkeyKing mains felt about Lancer. Most of us didn't want Lancer nor ever thought he would work well in that line. We wanted something like Battlecast, Mecha or Program (I got even more exited about Battlecast when they added the resistance to the skin line seeing as having a partly robotic Wukong would be pretty cool). It's not his worst skin design wise as it does try to do some different stuff with his animations and aa sounds (though it does sound a bit jarring, like your hitting the enemy with something made of glass), but it was FAR from the skin we wanted.

But I suppose part of the point of skins isn't to just "give us what we want", but to try to give us stuff Riot thinks we didn't realize we wanted. Sometimes it works out well, sometimes it doesn't. All we can hope for is that Riot will eventually do what they did for Darius and Pantheon and release the skins we've been hoping for the next time. Personally I've been dying to see Wukong get an Arcade skin for ages, but now that dream will have to wait another 2 years when he'll be up for a skin again.

The Iceborn9/10/2018, 9:03:30 PM1 votes

I understand your pain... I dont think you will get a sona skin at all because Odissey is a galaxy themed skin and I doubt they will make another galaxy themed skin as star guardian sona... This is to me feel O.K but nothing special or epic.. The effects look a lil better than the normal sona and ots disappointing

EROTIC RAID BOSS9/10/2018, 8:31:54 PM1 votes

Sona gets a skin every year I'm sure she'll have more chances at other skin lines lol