Talk:Sona/@comment-24221336-20140620143916/@comment-10428734-20140621161417

How do you waveclear? How do you farm when pushed under tower? How do you deal with all-ins pre-6? Or when R is on cooldown? How do you get in Q range without being bursted down? How do you focus the squishies in teamfights when your Q always target the closest enemies (a.k.a the tanks)? What if the enemy mid/jungler picks Talon/Pantheon/Leblanc/Zed/Kha/Lee/Vi/Fizz/Riven? These champions can just kill you over and over again every time you dare showing yourself in lane.

SR is not HA. AP Sona is extremely item-dependent, she needs too much to come online, and then she is still utterly squishy: before Athene she has mana problems, before Lich Bane her damage is not that good, before Zhonya she can't approach a fight without being bursted down.

Take most mid laners. Either they don't need as much (Fizz only needs LB to do his job, Ahri only needs DFG to do her job, Ziggs only needs Athene to do his job, Lissandra only needs Zhonya to do her job, Zed only needs Hydra to do his job...), or they scale way better (Karthus, Veigar, Cassio...), or at least they can hold their lane and farm quite safely, even against assassins (Ori, Syndra, Lux...).