Talk:Sona/Strategy/@comment-24087642-20131218022135/@comment-9280387-20131219155429

For sure sona mid in ranked is troll as hell if you do it just to do it. There are definately better apc's than sona. She only does like 100% of her ap with q and r alone. Her passive Staccatto  has a 20% ap ratio, and 193 x 2 base damage, on top of her ad so that will deal like 386 damage (at lv 18) + whatever ad she has at lv 18. So that's only 120% ap on top of all the base damage. It's not particularly impressive. I would think you could possibly do it in ranked if your team was playing the "protect the adc" game. Like everyone on the team had some sort of cc that would give the adc some much needed space. However if you get Lich Bane, that adds 50 base damage + 75% of ap onto her Staccatto. So that's 436 base damage and 95% of her ap on her next auto attack every 3 spell casts. This is her passive alone, with lichbane active. Most mids have around 2k health at lv 18, so this is not bad harass, though I doubt you will simply be harassing anyone in lane, as by then your tower surely must have gone down. So ovrall this makes her do closer to 195% of her ap in your standard combo. Her base damages are also not that terrible either. They will fall off eventually sure, but if you can establish emid game dominance with your team by farming up and trying to slip your comrades some kills every now and then, i think you could do just fine with it. Sona mid is more of a "we have plenty of damage and cc, im going to fill a semi-damage/support position." Building ap on her where she can farm actually makes her more of a stronger support than if she were to just be sitting in bot lane with a coin. The only thing you trade now is damage for better heals, and better speed buffs, and okay damage. You also are like an anivia lv1 with no egg passive: squishy as hell. That makes laning difficult. you will probably have to push a bit to make sure you're slightly ahead in leveling just to make sure you arent going to be nuked to balls in a simple trade. Meh sona mid is like a niche thing or something to do for fun in normals. She also takes lots of skill in the mid lane. I would say as late game came around I would be trying to give kills to others because by then I would not be as strong because i would be getting outscaled.