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Choose Champion Build:
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Musical Mastery
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A New Song
Recommended Items
Spells:
Exhaust
Flash
Items
Ability Order
Power Chord (PASSIVE)
Sona Passive Ability
Introduction
Welcome to my Sona guide!
In this guide, you'll find my personal suggestions on how to be a great support player with Sona!
A little about me:
My username is WolfeOrome. I've been playing League of Legends since right before the end of season 2. I'm pretty new to ranked, but I finished at Silver III this season, and I played either Jungle or Support pretty much the whole time. I'm not claiming to be an incredible player, or to know everything there is to know about being a support. However, this is a build that has worked well for me, and hopefully will for you too.
That said, I'll try to keep this short, sweet and to the point. So without further ado, here's the guide!
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Power Chord: The most underrated ability in Sona's arsenal. Power Chord has a special effect and deals extra damage after every third spell. More on this in the Strategy section. |
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Hymn of Valor: Sona's only offensive spell besides her ultimate. Max this second, since your main job is to keep your carry alive so healing is more important. |
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Crescendo: Sona's ultimate ability which damages and stuns all opponents in its path. Crescendo is a very powerful spell, and can easily turn the tide in a team fight. |
I usually max out



The reason I don't level up

As with any champion, level up the ultimate spell whenever you are able to.


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The defense tree is pretty standard, with several points in Armor, Magic Resist, and Health. Sona is pretty squishy, especially at early levels, so these points are well spent. |
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The Utility tree is a bit more flexible. I take
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For supports, I always get


If you really need more gold, you can trade


Item Sequence









Let's look at the items a little more in-depth:
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This second build is a revised version of the first. I've changed a few things around, removed some items, and overall just fixed it to make everything a little more dynamic. After talking with a couple reviewers, I decided it would be best to create a new build implementing some of their suggestions and advice. Thanks Vynertje and MissMaw for your help with this guide!
For my revised build, I decided to go with


Runes




- greater mark of hybrid penetration is a very helpful rune for Sona since she is a high-aggression poke-style support. The armor and magic penetration will help you harass more effectively at every level of the game.
Greater Seal of Armor is extremely effective for anyone in the bottom lane, since you'll be against an ADC who deals mostly physical damage. These are a must-have, so get 9 of them.
Greater Glyph of Magic Resist is also a must-have. Most teams have some mixture of physical damage and magic damage, so you want to be ready for both. The extra magic resist from these runes will save your life many times.
Greater Quintessence of Health is a great choice for Sona. She has incredibly low base health (one of the lowest in the game, in fact) so she needs every bit of health she can get.
Greater Quintessence of Gold is tempting since Supports have less income than other positions, but the health will be worth it in the long run. Staying alive longer = more objectives and assists = more gold.
As for masteries, almost everything is exactly the same in both builds. The main difference is that I took one point out of


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Sightstone: a must-have for any support champion. One of your main jobs is to provide vision, and this helps with that. Two free wards at a time, plus a bit of extra health, is money well spent. Some people like to upgrade this to
Ruby Sightstone, but I'd rather spend that money on pink wards or other items.
Shurelya's Battlesong: health, health regen, mana regen, CDR, and a
Ghost aura with a 60 second cooldown. 'Nuff said.
Mobility Boots: I got Boots of Mobility instead of
Ionian Boots of Lucidity because Sona is really ridiculously slow, and she often runs out of mana if you spam her abilities too much at early levels, so the movement speed is more valuable than the CDR. Boots of Mobility help you with warding and roaming.
Enchantment: Distortion: Also known as "Boots of I-can-flash-a-lot." The Distortion bonus helps negate that awful nerf Riot put on Flash with the insanely long cooldown timer. Alternately, you can get the
Enchantment: Homeguard bonus if you need to defend your base.
Locket of the Iron Solari: This is one item that you should always have somewhere on your team. It doesn't matter who has it as much as just the fact that someone has it. The MR and health regen aura, plus the built-in
Barrier makes this item invaluable. If your jungler doesn't have it, you should definitely get it, since it will help sustain you as well as helping the entire team in fights.
Twin Shadows: gives bonus AP, MR, movement speed, and an active that reveals and slows nearby enemies. In my opinion, this is a great item on Sona since gives the AP boost to make her spells more powerful and magic resist to help her not be quite so squishy. The active is great too, since it allows you to not have to facecheck brush. An interesting way to use the active is to use it in team fights if someone starts to run, in order to slow them long enough for your team to finish them off. There are tons of uses for this item.
For this build, I maxed out


R > Q > W > E
Farming
In the farming stage, you should stick to your carry like glue. There is no reason you should not be beside your ADC unless you die. Your job during laning is to keep your carry alive by healing and warding, and harass the enemy when possible. DO NOT KILL MINIONS!!! Minions are there for the carry, and they are NOT for you! If your carry goes in to attack the enemy, you stick right with him and help. Harass the enemy champions any chance you get, and try to stand near enough to the creep waves to get the experience. You don't need the gold from CS, because you'll get gold from assists and global objectives like towers and dragons.
Warding
Warding is one of the most important aspects of your job as support. In the current meta, League of Legends is a game where vision is king. If you're on the blue side, pop a ward into the tri-bush after a couple minutes to watch for ganks. Put a ward in the little river bush as soon as you get in the lane. Use the free ward from


For more information about warding, check out this site: Warding Guide
Mid-Late Game
In the mid-late game, after laning phase has died out, your job is to stay with the team and support as much as possible. Your main duty is your ADC, but if another team member needs help, don't hesitate to help them. Try to stay a little ways away from the team fights, and spam your Q and W as much as possible. If you have your team with you and you see several enemies standing near each other, throw


- You are a mother hen. Your ADC is the baby chick. Protect your ADC at all costs like a mother protects her child. Die for your ADC if need be. However, this also means be a good parent and tell your ADC when he is being stupid and should get out. Sometimes ADC push too far. Kindly tell him to turn back.
- Vision is king. To quote Hamlet, "wards, wards, wards!" Seriously, vision is everything in this game. One ward could be the difference between a gank and a counter-gank. Be smart, don't just put a ward every three inches, but make sure you know where the other team's champions are.
- Be selfless. A support's job is to be selfless and help everyone out as much as possible. Push when they push, retreat when they do, and FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T TAKE THE ADC's FARM!!!
If you enjoyed this guide, please let me know. If you think it sucks and I need to fix it, please let me know! I'm always open to criticism and suggestions, and I'll try to update this guide as often as needed.
Thanks for reading!
Vynertje for reviewing this guide and helping me find ways to improve. You're an awesome person!
MissMaw for giving some excellent advice and helping me make the most of my runes and items.
Dylan and Zach, the guys who first showed me League of Legends and showed me how to be a better player. Thanks for putting up with all my questions and stupidity!
And anyone else who has ever played League with me, given me tips, written guides, or helped me out in any way.
People say the League of Legends community sucks. I say they're just looking in the wrong places. You guys are awesome!
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