Talk:Sona/@comment-41.135.202.124-20120214124917/@comment-3359603-20120214213429

It's the idea that she needs nerfed for being good early game. Heck, Nunu's Ice Blast does strong damage early game. Yes, Sona's hits two people, but that's all that's going for it and that's only sometimes. Since her Q doesn't even prioritize champs after a certain range, she'll often either steal creeps or move to a dangerous range to get double-teamed. She still has 7 relatively common champs with larger ranges than her (w/o their abilities), and she's still very squishy. Nunu's ice blast is a guaranteed hit, has a better range, slightly shorter cooldown, and slows the enemy. And, he himself is tankier than her.

Yeah, she's a support, but early game, the best way for her to support is to keep enemies away from her lane partner. They obviously didn't want her to be an early-game healer.

(Against smart enemy champs,) She can't solo lane unless harrassing against an enemy melee solo laner, and unless her partner has some good CC, or can hit two enemies like once (like Yi with alpha strike), she can't really help in 2v2s if they focus her or her partner.

There is no reason for them to even look at Sona and go "...she needs nerfed." Especially in the area that makes her different from most champions. Riot's always kind of iffy for me. They make good champs. They make champs original and special and different. But, they don't know how to tweak them, and end up making them pretty much generic. I found Sona different because of her auras. She had a small heal quick heal, and a balanced attack (strong, but only partial controllable). But, she was helping out just being there. But, they put no real emphasis on her buffs--you can't raise them with AP, and then they want to nerf it for most of the game. Vlad's different because his abilities use health, so success with him is supposed to be based on having to balance safety and damage with health. But they don't know how to balance his damage output with his survivability (seeing as one gets him the other).