Talk:Sona/@comment-62.1.238.167-20121020193318/@comment-3486816-20121021141549

If a champ has too much utility, they get nerfed to the point of unusability until a rework is prepared for them. It's what happened to Evelynn and Shen, at least. It's not as though Riot doesn't ever nerf utility on a champion (the removal of the attack speed slow on Ez is a good example of this), they just try to avoid it, since that tends to involve what's good about a champion, which they prefer not to nerf. Making a high utility champion easier to kill is a viable alternative, preferable to taking away what they have. Trying to get an early kill on Sona has always been her counter; Riot is just trying to make that counter more viable to go through with.