User blog comment:QuantumFeint/About how Fearless went full Urgot with Sona/@comment-3275908-20140802123404/@comment-24558666-20140802215814

Let me make something clear.

1) Yeah, sona lvl 1 burst is insane, if you sacrifice ap per level glyphs for raw ap glyphs(which is sacrifice I would never do, as its just not worth it). Its point of game where she can pump out high damage, higher than even before. She is squishier, but nevermind that. However, after lvl 1, things do get worse. Your ability rotations are slower, and you will have Power Chord much less often on. And powerchord used to be your "time to harass" indicator. So instead of powerchord trades, you will probably be doing only hymn trades with powerchord once in while. And that is much less damage.

2) Yeah, shield and here do not make up for squishiness. But that is something old sona also had to deal with, and solution was/is power chord diminuendo. Well, now, your powerchord having much longer down time... still not problem.

3) Old sona had invible, but much stronger teamfight presence. With new sona, if you want to fully apply your Q aura, and you build lot of AP, well yeah, you would have much higher impact. If you were not melted before it even started. That is point I am trying to make. Q aura is by design insane, because it has potential to be gamechanging. If your team is ahead, it is much easier to apply it and snowball like god, if your team is behind you can't apply it or you risk death resulting in ace for enemy team. This is not healthy desing.

Its not good ability for full support sona either. With 100 ap(which you will have with per level glyphs and FQC), you get your team to apply 600 magic damage pre reductions, which results in 250-400 after reductions, depending on what your team is attacking. Its not completely bad, but not that great either. Compare it with Leona who, if lands abilities on whole enemy team grants 700(5*140) magic damage, which is about same. But unlike Sona, Leona offers lot of CC and is tanky monster.

Compare it with 1000 range 20 ap and 20 ad aura. 20 physical damage on each autoattack and bonus damage with each ability? And it does not get wasted when you attack minions? I think this aura is much more beastly.