Talk:Sona/@comment-175.141.153.54-20111017110005/@comment-175.140.197.191-20111018110546

Clutch heals are nice, but since the nerf to sustain heal these 'heals' now function as damage mitigations rather than damage recovery. With Sona being more spammy (7sec cooldown) the amount of mitigation done is definately much higher and effective than Soraka's now (20sec cooldown, nearly 3 times longer)

Not to mention Diminuendo is another mitigation that will further reduce dmg output by 20% for 4sec which is extremely useful for burst or nuking casters like Annie or Veigar, the biggest threat to carries.

So, IMO higher dmg mitigation + reduced damage from the source + more emphasis to MR severely beats a clutch heal situation.