Talk:Sona/@comment-5319740-20140430084301/@comment-5955640-20140505181604

I have the opposite opinion. Her role is a poker is terrible. If you wanna lose your lane against me go for poker Sona. I'll poke you right back for roughly the same or more damage.

The buff is good. Taric provides a good armor aura but not a good magic aura as well and won't heal you nearly as often. Taric only provides AD and AP during his ult whereas you Sona provides it anytime the Q aura is up. Simliar with Janna. She provides you a shield an extra AD but it's not a constant buff that can stay up indefinitely.

Hymn of Valor is 45 mana at first rank with a natural cooldown of 7 seconds. Eye of the storm at rank one is 70 mana with a natural cooldown of 10 seconds. The aura which buffs both your damage and any nearby allied champions is of 1000 while Eye of the storm buffs one person that's within 800 range.

Soraka gives a great bonus and health but the cooldown is far longer. And more costly with it being 80 mana every 20 seconds as opposed to 60 mana every 7 seconds and of course the aura which buffs everyone and not just the sole target.

Sona is the best buff support because she buffs everyone all the time and with many more options than anyone else.

Poke Sona is where I get ya during the laning phase. With your stats it would be hard but most Sonas are quite squishy and they won't poke you with optimal damage. You are really supposed to go for the poke when you can apply double damage or a debuff. They'll just run out and poke with a Q and then I poke them or their marksman so they have to heal costing them more mana to do their job and not letting the buffs do the work. And then they never use the E buff which kills me. I'll see Sona's all the time running away from a target with more than enough mana to use E to get away but they don't do it and they get caught.

E aura, E powerchord it's always enough to get away unless it's Leblanc or Kassassdin of course.