I go into solo or duo queue as sona a lot; I like the challenge, premade makes it too easy ;P




My reason for not using clarity is that you become accustomed to having nearly twice as much mana as you should, thus you spend it quicker than you should. It's very bad practice, and you'll find yourself performing terribly between clarities. It also hurts your team cause they feel the same effects, with the double mana. It feels like something nice to have, but it really isn't. The moment I broke my need for clarity(and even Heal), my supporting has become so much better.

Also, if your teammate overextends and you can't heal him fast enough, that's his fault, let him QQ. But if you CAN save him, with aria of preserverance or Crescendo, then Flashing in will make you look like a super pro support, and you'd have a happy teammate and an intimidated opposing team. I've done it plenty of times before, and it is a potential game changer (to bring along flash).

I normally play sona when im with friends on a voip, Ive stopped playing her while solo queuing because its just too hard to rely on people you dont know, Ive often ended up laning with someone that made no sense to lane with for sona because there was someone who insisted on jungling or various other reasons. But even with my build i run out of mana in games, early mid and late, even while using clarity. Perhaps its just my play style, if someones not on full health i feel like its my fault. If someone dies i feel like im not doing my job. I know its not because of me, but i think that how i should think about it.

nice support, really, good work, not bad from me

While teleport is always usefull, being as squishy as Sona is without flash makes her very vulnerable to any champ with a dash, jump, flash ability. The cool thing about flash is that after trying to jump on you a few times and you flashing away the enemy tends to be much less gung-ho about even trying to dive on you. After the enemy goes for you flash+E is usually more than enough to get away leaving them in the middle of your team beating on them.


I'm not suggesting you drop clarity, I think that it really makes Sona since it allows her to be a super aggressive harasser from level 1. Like you said you have enough mp5 to spam spells non stop and still have clarity. This is overkill no matter how you look at, why not just have enough mp5 to cast all you spell as much as would be useful and never run out of mana with useing clarity? Being able to spam spells non stop is nice but it's really not necessary. You could spend the gold on other stats that in the end would help you far more than just being able to spam spells non stop. On top of haveing overkill mp5 you also have a huge mana pool. Why have so much mana if your mp5 is so high that you will never run out?

I really suggest you swap out some mp5/mana for some survivability.

You definitely don't need that much mana regen even if you spam. Early game you dont really need to spam non-stop so you shouldnt run out mana. Later you will be having Tear not to mention ever so useful Clarity (my favourite spell <3) so most of your runes go to complete waste. Getting either AP and mag pen runes is more useful than stacking so much mana regen when using Clarity. You should think more of the game as a whole, not just think that it's useful early game.

Items seem quite nice, I like Mejai - some ppl call it ****. Also Soul Shroud is a nice item and always useful to get. However I myself personally would complete archangel's staff before completing Lichbane, but it's just how you want to play.

Your summoner spells are ok, but I think you should get an escape spell like Flash, which you have included in the build. Other than that I would like you to add some games you've played with this build and maybe you DON'T want to take Expanded Mind mastery, because it scales of your BASE MANA, therefore completely useless. It's mjuch better to max out the exp mastery.

I will try this build, but with my own runes (you can check out my builds too if you wanna see how I play) :) I can't give +1 because those runes suck pretty much, but I will if you find a better combo.

Its also worth saying that if you manage to finish my item build your getting too much feed. the items are a best case scenario but you probably shouldn't be able to actually get them all.

I think you are really wasting your runes with mana, combined with CLARITY. Only seals for mana regeneration , combined with the starting mana reg item , plus clarity would be enough even for sona. I dont have mana problems , using it they way i explained, and im able to spam my abilites all the time.

Secondly , i think FLASH would be the best choice, it saved me a lots of times , i dont use teleport since i can get to my lane or wherever else fast enough with my E spell.

Finaly , i like the items you chose , good job there ( except the boots ), especially with the MEJAI, so..everyone saying its not a good choice is really stupid, i get 20 stacks so easily, and have often been legendery with sona.
The reason i prefer sorceres shoes is that you dont really need more CDR for sona . You got about 9 % in masteries , you got 10 % from Kindlegem , you got 15 % on 20 stacks ( if you do ) ..plus you can ask youre team to help you with the blue buff ( even when you dont have mana problems ) ..thats 10 % more . Furthermore, i got CDR glyps..so i often have the maximum CDR of 40 % .

Sorry for a long comment :D..im new to the site so :P ..
bye bye

EDIT : didnt see the tornmail xDD..thats useless, thats for champs who take a lot of hits..you cant with sona..not even if you wanted to..2 hits nocturne..your dead,max 3...so...thats just stupid.

Your mana regen is beyond overkill with clarity. Clarity is needed to be really dominant in early lane so I suggest dropping your AA for something else.

Thornmail should never be bought by sona, ever. By the time it does any noticeable damage you are already dead. You are much better off just getting something else like Rylais so you can slow people before they can reach you and E to stay in front of them or Hourglass. Yes they are more expensive but they also give you AP as well as survivability.

You have no flash. I know flash isn't 100% needed but on a champ as squishy as sona it makes a huge impact on her survivability. It also allows you to hang back out of harms way and still be able to pop in and land your ult at crucial times which can win determine the outcome of a team fight.

Looks good. It might be wise noting that soraka has a global heal as her ult, which makes her a viable choice as top support. Personally, I love sona, and I main sona, because her heals and play style is fast and aggressive. It's very fun, rewarding, and you do great heals while also contributing to fights, which makes me believe that Sona is a better support than Soraka, but it's all opinion.

I also wanna mention about the boots. Have you tried getting Mana Manipulator --> Tear of the Goddess --> Boots --> Mejai's Soulstealer --> Ionian Boots of Lucidity? That seems a little early to decide whether or not mejai's would be useful or not. Just my two cents :)

But I won't vote until I try it ;P