Talk:Sona/@comment-31701761-20180115230237/@comment-24971427-20180116023644

Hey V-Sauce, Sona main here.

I'm here to disprove of everything you just said.

Q, increased mana cost. Like, bruh. You don't max this first, you max W first. And by the time Q gets maxed out, the mana costs don't even matter anymore. You'll already have Redemption and Ardent Censer, but also a big enough mana pool to spam this shit. And if you're really ahead, a fully upgraded Frost Queen's (rip that item).

Why would you even use Q as a laning tool? It's THE poke tool. Anyway, they plan to reduce the mana cost by 10 at all ranks anyway in the VPBE.

Next, -50% base damage. Honestly, when I first saw the nerf to the base damage, I was skeptical. But since the AP ratio was increased, that just means even more damage than before. So base damage -50%, AP scaling +50%.

W nerf. -10. 5 on healing, 5 on shield. Who cares? Aery gives a fat enough shield already.

Honestly, it's not even your job as support to deal damage. If it was, go Zed support relic shield full AD build 420/69/9000+ OP support confirm nerf.

The Aery shield wasn't nerfed, just the base damage. You still have that glorious 10% AP ratio poke on every Q you use.

Now I've given you the numbers, let me tell you from in-game experience itself.

I literally have no problems at all. Let's be honest here, Sona poke is cancerous. It's auto-targetted, and deals a lot of damage.

So you can't spam Q anymore every time it's off cooldown. That's balance right there! I don't even have mana problems because I max Q second, not first.

Manaflow Band has been an amazing rune, and it has allowed me to spam more spells and stay in lane longer than I originally could. I even trained myself to use spells in accordance to when manaflow band comes of cooldown to get the most mana out of it.

And Aery? Aery's the best poke rune for supports. She's spammable and deals decent damage for a support. I love it! There's no problems with it at all. You want more damage? Not the purpose of your role. Aery gives a big fat shield along with poke damage, that's already enough. Aery's damage does not matter at all, not in the eyes of a support. You get it for more poke damage and shields, not op 1000 health shred, instakill pentakill I killed everyone's entire family with just one Q cast damage. Poke, damage.

So yeah, everything's fine.