how do I build sona!
I need help building sona I've been building her ap but she is just too sqishy to survive anything! If I build her with no ap she just does nothing
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As a note, never build this 
there are other items you can build that will be more useful to you than this.
That said, Sona is a lane bully, so usually walk into lane with 
and either 
and 
x2 or and x3, along with 
. Harass with Q when you can, bearing in mind your auras and passive.
Try to make your first back worth a 
and 
, squeezing in more pots and 
if you can for some vision control.
From here, generally you'll want to buy 
and work toward 
as you can. The mana regen and active are just too crucial for self and team.
Once you hit Crucible, you assess where you are in the game. 
has quite a win rate on Sona recently, but don't buy it if you're behind strictly for damage. Remember that Sona being played as a support makes more rewards of your auras and ult than just trying to hit someone for 600 with a single Q.
These are all great items to have. Buy them according to what the enemy team looks like and prioritize via who you want to shut down the most.
As for boots, 
Map mobility is wonderful for gaining quick vision control, and defense boots never hurt when the enemy is ahead. I would recommend not getting 
but I can't tell you how to live your life.
Don't forget 
and !!!!! Being a 5 item Sona and holding a can still be extremely effective. Nothing says you MUST have 6 items.
It's really all just about positioning with sona. Her ult is great in team fights and wombo combos so always look for that opening. Never spam your heals without proper mana regen or get caught alone. She's really good in a poke based lane against squishy supports so don't pick her against a leona, blitz, or tresh as she doesn't do nearly enough damage to chunk them down and she's useless against them since they have amazing engage. Use your passive to your advantage to poke safely and never take minion harass, like you said she's extremely squishy so when you see a team fight going sour back off and never position your self right in the middle of it. Her auras are really just for her team so maybe an ardent censer or something like that, it really just depends on how the game is going. You never really want to go for a tank build but maybe just resistance and which ever is most useful for your team at that moment.
If you get ahead
Move faster, more AP, everyone who get's healed or shielded gets an attack speed boost.
Against teams with a lot of AoE and/or AP, if you don't need the shield 
for the AP boost and pushing power
Armor and HP, neat active
Magic resist, mana regen, neat active. Would build on ever champion.
Switch out MR boots for armor boots if you need armor.
Love this item, try it out.
You are honestly really well off looking at all the items and figuring out which items are great for supports and making an item set for yourself so you aren't lost during a game. Build re-actively. My sona runes are nothing but armor and MR, maybe some HP. At the start, charge one or two charge of your passive at the fountain. If you are going to help the jungler, one charge, then use Q on the monsters, then your third Q will ready your passive for level 1 lane burst. If you aren't helping a jungler, 2 stacks at the fountain.
Level one burst should be AA->Q->PassiveAA
If you can stay ahead after this and get some kills, get a ruby crystal ASAP at least before upgrading your gold item. Keep your river and bushes warded. You are playing Sona, you can die to basic harass if you don't keep the pressure up.
Also, late game, don't be afraid to sell Lich Bane for a better support item or another defensive item. You are a support, don't let 'MASSIVE DAMAGES' get to your head. If you can't live in a team fight, you aren't doing your job.
EDIT: If you have any questions or need clarification, I can't sleep so I'll be here awhile.
that's the point of ap sona, either ur a glass cannon or a ultity semi tank. sheen is like ur priority id even get this item before sight stone. rest u can build toward survivability or more dmg.
BOOTS ARE FOR SUCKERS
ap = does nothing
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look at the winrate with LichBane: http://www.lolking.net/champions/sona
Though I build her as support - that means situationaly. Simply, what my team needs.
Does they have full ad?
Is their AP mid fed?
Are they focusing my ADC?
Am I ahead?
Am I fucking ahead?
Whenever I play Sona, this is the very least of what I need to be somewhat successful:
I pretty much always rush Sightstone so I can switch my for a .
This is how I usually build because I go ham and this shouldn't be tried at home:
But for reals, I really like this on her:
with either or
i mean if you are too squishy and want to be a bit beefier your gonna loose some damage but the question is what are you dieing from ? if you need armor i like frozen heart for magic resist i like spirit vissage and and locket of iron salari
- these 2 items are core. always build them (assuming you are support sona). It's up to you if you want to finish the frostfang upgrade to frost queen. Personally I like leaving it unupgraded and opt for other items instead.
Personally I like these boots for the poke damage.
Are okay as well
Only if you want to roam a lot before the laning phase ends
next you have a few options. personally i like to build 
-Sona is pretty spammy and has decently high mana costs. Once the tear is stacked you get a ton of AP and the shield active from Seraphs as well, which is really useful.
Next I think it's best to build
-You already offer your team a lot of utility from your auras and heals and your ultimate. Getting a lich bane helps you to deal a relevant amount of damage in fights as well.
Now is when you finish your archangel. The seraphs should be completed, or nearly so. Once it transforms you get a huge spike in power (and this item also scales with the mana from your lich bane!)
At this point most games are usually over. But if you have an opportunity to build a 6th item generally it's best to pick up a banshees veil for Sona.
kind of god
Since you probably already build 
due to your mana problem and your quick casting which make it build super fast, 
gives an extra 12 AP and gives all the stats you want.
cdr + armor and good utility.
I'm gonna get downvoted like crazy, but sona is actualy close to scale enough to be mid. I wouldn't build or which are more support oriented items.
Humm another bit of advice, your E is way too much expensive for what it gives until late game where you can spam all your skills without caring for mana. Use it only if dire situation or if you can charge a powerchord to kill someone with it. max it last.
Oh ! I still consider as a noob trap. It's only useful if 3 of your teamates are strongly AA reliant. But at this point... you really need to dish your own magic damage if you don't want the enemies to itemize against you. So the ardent censer is still meh.
I think you'll need to be able to ditch the boots in her build somehow with runes and masteries and try something like these together:
And either: or .
To not have that problem. (this's a build with 520 AP without dragon buffs and has 1050 bonus health with 50 MR and 50 armor + GA passive + Seraph's Embrace's active with a maximum shielding of about 600 damage and about 2k bonus mana)
To play without boots you can either get a lot of cooldown reduction from the runes and masteries to spam her MS boost, get movement speed from runes and masteries or a combination of both.
cuz sona does nothing she has nothing going for her other than her damage but riot doesnt like that, its too oppressive so yes, sona is useless, but you willl be the most fabuous looking useless chap if you get ur ult skin...
you're better off spamming heal and speed up from a safe position, and use your ult to disengage, save people, disengage for a renengage wutever you are not the one to make plays or initiate fights with your ult, you will die if you do
Hybrid Penetration marks are great on Sona.