User blog comment:Emptylord/Champion reworks/Sona the Maven of the Strings (Overwatch's Lúcio)/@comment-5035765-20160620030823/@comment-3974211-20160620042734

I'm aware of why they previously removed her persistent auras. Or, at least, I could rationalise that reason. However, as with Udyr, I think a large part of the impossibility to balance is/was because they had to be balanced around the fact only one of them was active at a time. It's not just making an aura that's noticeable, but also make each individual aura strong enough to work as the only ability.

If you followed Jinx's development - she began as Ranged Udyr. However, it was too difficult to create three distinctive weapons that felt good to use on their own (since they would always be used on their own); and the general lack of other abilities meant she overall experience was flat. This is a parody of Sona, and I imagine Udyr if he ever gets reworked. For Jinx, they turned Zap! into a standard spell rather than a persistent attack modifier and fused her Fishbones and Pow-Pow into a single ability... which is kinda exactly what I'm doing on Sona.