Sona Build Guide : Sona - The Marvelous Musician :: League of Legends Strategy Builds

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And i totally forgot about grading the guide, this is keep in mind from a guy bad at supporting so i don't know how good it is:

Design: 8/10 - The item section looks kinda messy with the words under the items, maybe use a column for making it look smoother
Readability: 9/10 - column thing again.
Viability: 6-8/10 - i have no idea what items to build when supporting. I do have some idea of what items not to build and i think i see a few of them in the alternative section.
The reason that it's so widespread and between 6-8 and not between 8-10 or 7-9 is because you don't mention anything about the lane mechanics or knowledge of the game, nor do you mention anything about having pressence and how/when to have certain degrees of it - i know you know all this, you just need to add it.

I see. Many thanks for the in-depth review. I'll be sure to incorporate your suggestions when I update the guide. And when I do update it, I'll get back to you in your guide thread.

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And i totally forgot about grading the guide, this is keep in mind from a guy bad at supporting so i don't know how good it is:

Design: 8/10 - The item section looks kinda messy with the words under the items, maybe use a column for making it look smoother
Readability: 9/10 - column thing again.
Viability: 6-8/10 - i have no idea what items to build when supporting. I do have some idea of what items not to build and i think i see a few of them in the alternative section.
The reason that it's so widespread and between 6-8 and not between 8-10 or 7-9 is because you don't mention anything about the lane mechanics or knowledge of the game, nor do you mention anything about having pressence and how/when to have certain degrees of it - i know you know all this, you just need to add it.

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Actually sonas form of harassment is really short-dued and you rarely take more damage than your ad, the one taking damage with a sona is usually his/her ad-carry or the enemy ad-carry, if you go up to the enemy ad to harrass and their leona/taric/alistar/nunu is there you're probably a dead sona.

And as a finisher, i feel that the skilling seems too random, i know you mention it and have a whole section about it but if i were you i'd make 2 builds one with heal max and 1 with q.

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This kinda pulled me outta my comfort zone since supporting is not something i'm completely up with the meta on.

I don't get why you don't go 21 into utility tree, you're not supposed to take damage over extended engagements as sona in the laning-phase, you just power-Q them and back off or power-W then and back off or power-E them and let your carry run in. Neither situation would the defense tree help you out more.
Pretty sure Exhaust is meta and is so for a reason. If the enemy ad gets fed, a heal isn't going to save you. An exhaust might.
No CV, plzno. It just leaves you out there in the laning phase, you need a battle spell on the support to win engagements, cv doesn't help you much there.
Get rid of BV and QSS, it makes it less valuable to focus you, you want to be focused as much as possible
don't grab wota ever
Don't grab GA ever
Don't grab abyssal ever
Take a standpoint in the synergy section, which ad's are good with her, which ar ebad?
Same with enemies, you don't really say - THIS IS THE TIME TO PICK SONA *********ERS!
I don't see anywhere in the guide how careful you have to play sona, she's probably one of the easiest champs in the ame to catch out so make it clear how careful the reader has to be whenever he tries to harrass.
A good way to harrass is to counterharrass - every time the enemy tries to harrass you harrass him back instead of opening yourself with walking to him, he walks to you.

I don't go 21 into the utility tree is because I tend to go up against kill lanes such as Graves and Leona or some other oddball bot lane compositions such as Jax and Xin Zhao. If I went full 21 in the utility tree, I'd be super squishy. And people tend to focus Sona either way since she's so easy to kill, especially early on. I might go 0/9/21 against sustain lanes, but I rarely go up against those so I can't really say much about it.
Since Heal's buffs, I've sorta started to lean more towards it since it now heals everybody for the same amount and can be casted even when stunned. This way, the AD carry or someone else can pick Exhaust since it scales better than Ignite for the late game. That, and she has W Power Chord. Which might not be as much as Exhaust, but it opens up Heal for her.
I'm still kind of on the fence for CV. Sure it wasn't too useful in S2, but I'm kinda seeing it being somewhat more useful because of the jungle and item changes. Somehow, I keep forgetting to note that I personally only get this against sustain lanes or when I'm playing with my friends who never call out MIAs though. Probably because no one else has really brought it up.
I would remove BV, but not QSS in some cases. As much as it is great to be focused, isn't that the tank's job though? Mostly because once I die, my teammates lose the buffs I provide and if I get focused hard, then I probably didn't get my ult out.
Like I mentioned in the guide, I only grab WotA on fed AP champs who would really benefit from it. I never grab ii on double AP comps though, since they're more likely to grab those anyways.
Like I mentioned, I only grab GA on looong games and when I know I'd get focused hard in the next team fight or when I'm acting as a bait sometimes.
As I mentioned in the guide. I have three requirements on when I'd take it, which rarely get satisfied anyways.
I'll do that in my next update. I'm still deciding on some of the others, but I have a pretty good idea on most of them. It's mostly just because she works with almost all of them that it's hard to say whom she doesn't really work with.
Same as above -barring the last sentence.
I'm pretty sure I mention a couple of times through the guide that she is squishy and will die often unless you know what you're doing. I'll just be sure to write more on how to harass.

Thanks for the review! +rep

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This kinda pulled me outta my comfort zone since supporting is not something i'm completely up with the meta on.

I don't get why you don't go 21 into utility tree, you're not supposed to take damage over extended engagements as sona in the laning-phase, you just power-Q them and back off or power-W then and back off or power-E them and let your carry run in. Neither situation would the defense tree help you out more.
Pretty sure Exhaust is meta and is so for a reason. If the enemy ad gets fed, a heal isn't going to save you. An exhaust might.
No CV, plzno. It just leaves you out there in the laning phase, you need a battle spell on the support to win engagements, cv doesn't help you much there.
Get rid of BV and QSS, it makes it less valuable to focus you, you want to be focused as much as possible
don't grab wota ever
Don't grab GA ever
Don't grab abyssal ever
Take a standpoint in the synergy section, which ad's are good with her, which ar ebad?
Same with enemies, you don't really say - THIS IS THE TIME TO PICK SONA *********ERS!
I don't see anywhere in the guide how careful you have to play sona, she's probably one of the easiest champs in the ame to catch out so make it clear how careful the reader has to be whenever he tries to harrass.
A good way to harrass is to counterharrass - every time the enemy tries to harrass you harrass him back instead of opening yourself with walking to him, he walks to you.

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I just read and used you guide. I got paired up with a Draven bot and used the focus Q and rush Zeke's herald against ad ez and support niddle and we wraffle stomped them. Sona is one of my favorite champs and use other guids in the past, but this is a bread winner. I ended up 1/4/14 and i was one of the biggest **** blocks for the enemy team. I never felt so powerful with sona until i try this guide. thank you.

You're welcome =) I'm glad the guide managed to help you out.

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I just read and used you guide. I got paired up with a Draven bot and used the focus Q and rush Zeke's herald against ad ez and support niddle and we wraffle stomped them. Sona is one of my favorite champs and use other guids in the past, but this is a bread winner. I ended up 1/4/14 and i was one of the biggest **** blocks for the enemy team. I never felt so powerful with sona until i try this guide. thank you.

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Voted +1

+1, +rep, thanks for asking for a review at my shop :) Good luck with your Sona guide!

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wrote:

Sona is my main, i've try to build her AP/AD/supp/jungle and your guide is very complet and helpfull =)
GG.

I'm glad the guide was able to help you out. =)

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very comprehensive, thank you.

Thank you for the feedback and the upvote. =)

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