Sona Build Guide by astrolia

I personally think that writing comments in bright yellow is even lower ELO than building Archangel's Staff on Sona.

Best regards.

I just said my opinion. Font color has nothing to do with this at the first place. You have your own build and I respect it, but buying Archangel's Staff on my AP Sona never resultet bad, only good. Btw honey my ELO is 1593 <3.

Best regards,
Your Nemo.

I'm going to walk into a no farm support build guide to defend a 3k gold non-support item in a big *** hunk of text typed in yellow and despite my comment being completely irrelevant to support since I specifically say "my AP Sona", I'm going to hide behind a comment like "I just said my opinion".

And personally, I laugh at people who make signatures talking about being ~nonconformist~ and ~cool~. Especially since, in this scenario, many guides on this site will tell you to build AA staff and it's even on her recommended items list.

Hahahahaha guess someone is very mad when he/she gets some criticism. Btw watch your language. You put yourself a little too high little girl. You consider yourself as the best Sona player.

Who are you to judge what will people put in their guides and you are to "attack" people on provocative way because they say: "You can also build Archangel's Staff"?

People can take whatever build they like and if you ask me, I like Archangel's Staff. It allows me to spam as much as I want, while gathering mana all the time. You do not have to agree with me but your behaviour is really rude and unacceptable when talking against my opinion. And yes, I don't wanna mention you provocations with BRIGHT YELLOW TEXT parts.
I did not understand your "And personally, I laugh at people who make signatures talking about being ~nonconformist~ and ~cool~" ... If you think about "They laugh at someone because he is different, he laughs to them because they are all the same." since that's my signature, I really don't care about your thinking lol. I use it just to have something and I think it is true for a big number of people, and again you make laugh to someone who is different or who doesn't fulfil your conditions.

Work on your behaviour honey, you allow yourself too much.

Best regards,
Your Nemo.

Nice stuff, very detailed!!!!

I think you're just being a freaking tard. And I don't think you even read anything she said or anything from the guide at all.
She told facts about building an Archangel's Staff on Sona and explanations why it is not good for a low-farm support that doesn't take the farms from AD carry. Which is solid and on tournaments other Sonas build often the same.

You on the other hand just said that it is good on Sona because "You will get 1000 bonus mana very fast" and "Additional Ability Power", "Respect other people opinions", "1593 ELO", and "Attack people who build Archangel Staff".

What she wrote on the guide are Facts and have been actually calculated more or less. It's not her opinion that Archangel staff is bad on a low-farm support Sona. It's a Fact.

An Archangel's Staff costs 2855 Gold and what it gives you are:
1. Mana
2. AP
3. Mana Regen

- Mana is just an extra for Sona, but without it Sona isn't actually worse because you're not in a team fight All the time to actually spam it over and over. On lane, if you or your carry synergy well together, you won't actually need to spend all of your mana bar just to heal them. As Sona's spells don't cost much, and with the mana regen you get from the supportive Shurelya's Reverie and runes, you will regain your mana back fast enough.

Quick Note on her heal: Sona Can heal, but unlike Soraka or Taric it's heal over time. When her carry gets low, she really isn't capable to keep them alive for that long making them really vulnerable to tower dives. So meanwhile she keep wasting her mana on her carry and slowly heal them, the carry could just go recall and come back with more items and full health. Which is another point for not buying mana items.

- The AP really isn't worth it. I don't know if you've actually read the guide or just look at the item build. But Sona's heal ratio sucks and AP won't help at all. Sona's Q will do a bit more damage but it's barely noticeable, unless you're in low ELO and the enemies build No MR. Beside, a support's job isn't dealing damage, leave it to your AP caster who will actually do it much more effectively than you do. Your job is to keep the team alive and provide utility.

- About the mana regen, as Astrolia said in the guide, a Chalice of Harmony does a much better job if you have mana problem. But then you never should spam your abilities for pointless reasons so most of the time Shurelya's Reverie and Runes do the job good enough already.

Which means, overall this item is a waste of money and an item slot on Sona when you can actually have something better. When you don't have that amount of money, and you often won't, "buying something extra" isn't viable.

Beside, this here is a low-farm support (which is used in ranked and tournament) guide. Kinda funny that you gave your opinion about AP-Support Sona.

I just said that Archangel's Staff works fine on me. I don't take it all the time but I take it when I feel like that. And yes, I agree that support isn't here to make damage. Well, I found Sona good in both ways:
a) as a good damage dealer
b) as a very good support

Another thing, even if her AP ratio on Aira of Perseverance is low, it doesn't mean AP will suck. I play both AP and Aura Sona, though I like AP Sona more.

I wanted to say that it is easy mana gain and it is very useful. I'm pretty sure your ( more or less ) 850 mana on mid games with big mana regen won't stay long. Even if you have high mana regen your mana will burn out very easily, delaying your support capabilities.

Of course Archangel's Staff sucks on someone who doesn't know to play Sona very well, but I mastered Sona very good and I know what I am doing. My ranked Sona rating is very high and I think I know why I buy Archangel's Staff in some games. I read her guide and it is full of pointless informations and on the other hand noone like wall of text ( which is aslo said in some posts and people who make things like: How to make a Guide - I was reading one that a pro guide maker made )).

The one thing I really dislike at this guide is her Heal leveling ( At skill sequence ). If we take that ( accoriding to her guide ) 2 levels of heal ( or 3 eventually ) , it will be something like 85 - 90 heal. Max. Heal on Sona is a MUST and you can't take it on levels 16,17,18 when it will be kinda too late. You must ensure your team high survivability. Sacrificing heal and resistance gain for a little more movement speed is really bad offer,

As AP Sona, I usually make 550+AP and sometimes I make over 200 Heal.
And your "Kinda funny that you gave your opinion about AP-Support Sona." is not true at all. If Sona was given such spells, to give her team high survivability while make really nice damage in the same time, you have to use that adventage. You do not have to trust me, but from what I've seen I can tell, without any problem, AP Sona rocks.

I really don't like this guide and it is my opinion and I really don't know what is the problem when someone have different thinking from yours? Does that mean "I think you're just being a freaking tard." ???

Out of curiosity, what exactly is the "criticism" you speak of? Your post was, "Hey, I know you don't like this item, but I think it's good." That's not criticism. That's a pretty useless statement that says very little if anything at all.

If anything, you're the one who can't handle other people having a different opinion since you're continuously commenting on my guide because you disagree with what I said about an item. It's like you expected me to agree with you after your post, and you're confused about why I'm not, so you keep posting to "argue" about it.

You also can't differentiate between the concepts of "AP Sona", "Support Sona" and "Building AP on Support Sona". How do I know this? Because you said: "One more thing, you attack Ability Power Sona too much." At no point in my guide do I even talk about AP Sona - This guide is about "Support" from start to finish.

You also don't seem to understand the support meta this guide is based off of since you're defending a 3k gold item which only helps yourself when that 3k gold could be put towards an aura item / wards / oracle / survivability.

As I said in the very beginning of the guide, "This guide is for people who are familiar with the current meta game and wish to play Sona as a low farm support. If you're summoner level 15, have 100 wins, think Archangel's Staff is the best item on Sona, and have no idea about the current meta game, you will probably disagree with everything in this guide."

In other words, I told you in the beginning of my guide (in the disclaimer nonetheless) that you wouldn't agree with it, and surprise surprise you don't.

Ha?
As much as I could see you "attacked" me on a rude way when I said: hey I like making Archangel's Staff.

I'm not talking you attack her in Guide, I said you attack her in comments . -"my AP Sona", I'm going to hide behind a comment like "I just said my opinion".




Totally depends on a player skill.

Out of curiosity, what exactly is the "criticism" you speak of? Your post was, "Hey, I know you don't like this item, but I think it's good."
Is that really all you could copy paste?

You:

after I said



Hold on a second, where is the "Hey, I know you don't like this item, but I think it's good." That's not criticism. That's a pretty useless statement that says very little if anything at all." ???


And why should I disagree with everything in this guide? I found it good with few things I dislike.

Best regards,
Your Nemo.

Really great guide +1 Vote

Helped me starting out with my Sona greatly.
Going pretty good, too
(best game last week :p)

Although i´m not lvl 30 yet (just past the halfway mark) i got lots of fun with Sona :D

Little Edit:
The KIllshots happened when slowing low Champs or switching Aura :)