Talk:Sona/@comment-194.98.70.14-20110422071519/@comment-1973463-20110423115356

Eh. The return on mana from the items isn't really worth it. The extra mana you get from archangel's will add 8 AD to your manamune, and getting a deathcap is better AP/gold than an archangel's even with manamune, lich bane, and lv 18.

Of course, if you need still more mana than what you get from a manamune, and want that extra +50 heal, then go for it, but I don't see any value in going hybrid AD/AP in the first place. The return on the amount healed is pretty weak (3250 mana w/ archangel's = 143 AP = 50 heal), and if you have AD already, you're going to get a much better damage return by getting some AS/crit/armor pen than working off your 1 non-ult nuke.

And on the flipside, if you already have AP, you're better off boosting it further with a deatchap's +30% and tacking on a lich bane than trying to build AD, since AD's strength is in its multiplicative scaling. It's weak with low investment: add 100 (!) AD? awesome. You do an extra ~50 damage per second (armor, and Sona has only 0.9 AS at 18). It's only strong when you spend a lot on it: 100 AD was a ~3650 gold value going off basic items (BF sword), but up that to 10000 gold---100 AD, 100% AS, 50% crit, 50 armor pen---and your DPS gain increases from 50 to around 325, rather than the +135 DPS you'd get from linear scaling.