So how can I not steal kills from ADC as sona?
It feels really difficult sometimes without letting the enemy get away and I don't want my ADC yelling about me taking the kills.
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Q to deal damage and don't chase them without your ADC. Sona's job in a 2v1 is to help the ADC win the fight, so try using E to help them catch up and use W to help them stay in the fight. Engage with your ult and make sure you land it. If you need a mental marker, I'd stop attacking the enemy once they're at about 1/3 health (squishy champs) or about 1/4 (tanky champs).
If the ADC can't win the fight and you know your Q can, then don't feel bad about saving them. That's your job as a support. Just try to be wary of how much health they have and know that Sona hurts!
P.S. Your Staccato Power Chord hurts a lot, dealing 40% more than your Q. I'd avoid using it when the enemy has low health. Your Diminuendo and Tempo Power Chords will definitely help your ADC secure a kill.
Best of luck!
As an ADC main, I would personally never yell at my support for stealing kills. Many AP supports do -more damage- in early laning than the ADC, it's really -hard- to get the kill on the ADC, and letting the kill get away is not acceptable. (For most ADCs, BF sword on first back is enough to change that, but trinity force ADCs ramp up a little slower.) That said, the slow power chord can secure the kill for your ADC as opposed Q power chord securing it for yourself. But if you can get the kill on an enemy ADC that is already escaping and it doesn't look like your ADC will be able to get a hit, take the dang kill. You should give the ADC the kill -when possible-, not let kills get away just because you can't give it to the ADC. The lower your ELO (and mine is bronze :o), the less likely it is that people have the skills to give over kills without letting them get away.
Personally, I'm happy to go 0/0/4 with a 4/0/0 support in laning (or a 2/0/2 support and a couple kills on the jungler) ... If we're doing that, do you have any idea how much free farm I'm getting? And my support has a core sighstone+mobis+tier 2 gold item super early making them a crazy warding machine keeping me safe to push all the way to inner turret or take dragon! (Ahem, assuming of course that you're building proper support items. I'm not so happy about giving up kills to a support that won't spend on vision... Always frustrating when I spend more on vision than the support does :o)
Now if you start taking my farm or pushing lane when I'm trying to freeze, that's when I'm gonna have issues. But the truth is ADCs do -terrible- damage before they complete their first couple items, and they get fed in the early game from -farm- not from kills. Kills are good because they result in free-farm and in farm-denial, not to mention turret and dragon pressure. The difference between kill and assist gold is just a little icing on the free-farm cake. As long as you don't mess with my farm I'm a happy ADC. :)
You're not stealing kills, tell that ad to buy a sightstone with that assist money. He won't be any use anyways even if fed.
if he can't secure the kill on his own he doesn't deserve the kill.