In very old metas Sona was seen as the most annoying broken support champ, famed for doing more damage than the ADC and stealing every kill. You'd get cursed at for picking Sona. I picked her a few times when I felt in a chaotic mood.
I love Sona. At half a million points, it's my most played champion and I'm not embarrassed to say Sona and Janna have been carrying me to Diamond4 3 seasons in a row. BUT, one thing I always found weird is how disconnected with her thematic Sona is. Riot has been doing their best to tie gameplay with thematic. So when you play Caitlyn you fell like you are playing a sniper police, and when you play Rengar, you fell like you are playing a hunter assassin. When you play Sona, you don't fell like a magical singer. She doesn't really have a thematic identity like other champs. And I get it, she is a older champion, before Riot started to really try to tie gameplay with thematic. But you get it.
Definitely my most played champion, but since I only play aram, I don't even have 200 games with her, and for some reason, if I'm not the one to get her on the rolls, no one will trade me.
Your explanation of the "peeling" felt a lot like when I got bored with trying out new supports and tested non-traditional supports. Turns out Yasuo has a hidden passive that casts "Taunt" on every enemy in range. That combined with Windwall and the old Zeke's Harbinger made him a formidable tank support who could also put out some damage. I love playing Sona, but damn they did her dirty by releasing Seraphine. And yes, this is an Arcade Sona profile pic.
Sona, the "lane bully" that gets bullied by everyone else in lane I agree though, for such a simplistic and unassuming champion it's really satisfying to make use of her limited kit and playing to it's strengths, optimal usage of her power chords to turn the tides of a fight, using her ult to catch people who tried to get 1 last hit before backing away from your tower or just generally to win a tower dive feels great. Some lanes you don't get to do anything and just have to wait for late game, but being able to initiate fights and buff your entire team at once feels amazing. Great video and editing!
Senna too! I view the support game almost entirely as convincing the enemy that there's a free kill on the table and then letting the ADC prove them right
This is my mentality with almost every enchanter support Milio does this super well too, due to his movementspeed on E Lulu too Nami similar The amount of times I baited someone as Yuumi is way too high People see any enchanter and think: "ohh free kill"
Unfortunately as a soraka you don't have the Sona ulti to get away from them.. yeah you can control enemy assassin movement with Soraka, but it isn't nearly as impactful as Sona kiting would be unless you get them bound and silenced without somehow dying in the process. Soraka generally is more about giving her team infinite sustain and really wishing that they actually do something with it instead of constantly running away with full hp. I swear there's some strange disease infecting league players currently which makes them completely unable to even attempt fighting enemy team until they just lose very slowly and it's driving me crazy as a fan of support role who really like trying to help their team do well instead of being a fake midlaner in support role without items. Voice communication would fix this, but I really really don't want to read what league players type on average game, let alone hear them speak.
My buddy happened upon this video of yours and immediately sent it to me. I've been playing League since season 4, started playing Sona in Preseason 5, and the rest is history. Currently MR 7, 748k points, and peaked Diamond 1 (mostly) one tricking Sona. The moment I saw the title and thumbnail, I just KNEW I had to watch it with him so that I will have a witness for the absolute madness of two souls being on the same wavelength. Before we hit play, I listed out some possible things you might talk about in this video. Lo and Behold, everything I mentioned, you ended up talking about in some way in your video. Never before had I seen or encountered anyone else who understood this champion as much as I think I do, even in the Sonamains Discord. I think you were able to perfectly sum up Sona's identity as a champion, as a support, and as a piece of scrap that has been neglected and abandoned by the developers for their shiny new pieces of scrap. I don't want to go into the nitty gritty of everything, about how much I agree with the salient points of your video, and how I disagree with some of your takes, but just know, that I sincerely respect you as a fellow Sona main who also started playing her because she's a borderline rip off of Hatsune Miku. Just know, that you've earned yourself a like and a sub my friend.
Sona was the first champ that allowed me to reach Master and Grandmaster. She doesnt have flashy plays but a good sona can focus the attention of the enemies so hard that your team can just steamroll them. Its a very good strategy, im impressed you found that out on your own :3 Secret tip to win lane: Get spellblade after boots and tear and poke poke poke ;)
i personally have a really, really, REALLY bad habit of KSing and i have to imagine spellblade would only exacerbate that problem, but it does sound like a lot of fun. i also want to try the spellblade support item to see if it's worth using. thanks for your insight bro.
@@ChappellsDaughter it's an effect on Sheen and newly on Bloodsong that gives you extra on-hit damage after using an ability. pairs really nicely with power chords and ability spam
Sona was actually my first main ever and i played her back in s8 when there was no passive ui but after time i just stopped completly playing support cuz it was so frustrating to see the outcome of the game locked behind my adc, now it's locked behind my jungler
Jungle role has always been strong. I think that as players overall have become better at the game, it is far more evident how powerful the role is in relation to others.
As a Sona OTP with 1.5 million points, I can't say that untill this video came out, someone even came close to understanding Sona as a champion, you've described her really well, even the inting part, which my friend named "Sona sacrifice", she just pulls out a certain playstyle out of you, which in the end leaves you in control of the game. I've been a Sona main for the past 8-9 years of my life. Did I enjoy those 8-9 years? No, not really, because witch each patch, they killed my love more and more, and turned her into a champion she is today. Also, what I'd like to add, everyone assumes you're an E-GIRL, when you play Sona, so if you are losing, you have to use the chat or all chat to control the game, and disturbe enemy champions into giving yourself and your team the advantage to win. It also, doesn't hurt, to tilt your enemies early game, and you get camped and fucked entire game, because you have a lot of points, so you give openings to your jungle in other places. At the end of the day, Sona is the only reason I still enjoy LoL, and you give my baby justice!
This actually makes me feel, "Someone felt what I felt everytime I play sona". I just played sona because she is musician (which is lame excuse) and easy at first glance. I subscribed by the way because I want Sona to rule some day..
@@coolmetin02 She is basic, but she is the hardest to master. Not flashy at all, but strong in good hards. Like Sivir, not flashy at all, but in good hands, can wipe an entire team in a couple of secods.
@@MatiasDypala silver peaker sona main probably. Shes not even close for hardest to master. Because there is nothing you can master. Only things you have to look for is good positioning and your passive ability uses. And neither of them are difficult.
I call Sona "the silent killer", she's like a scratch on your arm that if you ignore, can make your whole arm fall off. I love playing her precisely because of how much the enemy team always tends to underestimate her in the early game, until it's too late - she's scaled and turned into the most important member of the team that commands the fights. I love that you described understanding the point of her gameplay as "something that clicked one day" because that's exactly how it was for me too.
This is honestly some of the best league content i've seen in years. If you have any other champs you're passionate about you should really consider making this a series.
bad news: i do NOT have any other champs i'm passionate about. if anything, i hope this can reach and encourage OTPs of other champs to do the same thing for how they like to play.
i love how you express and edit this video and the humor you put in to play Sona. So tonight ima play Sona after start playing her as free champ after like 7 years ago
I miss back in like 2016 Sona's passive was easily viable for carrying. Today if I get ahead I can still carry in weird situations even as damage but that's really only realistic in games plat and under.
I loved the previous seasons when Dark Harvest Shotgan Sona was a thing. I could one shot people with Sona back then, and feel like the main character.
Sona is Miku the same way Lux is Marisa. Whenever I play Sona, it's hilarious to see people try to kill me through W powerchord and exhaust. It's also fun if you go Shield Bash. It actually was fun with Seraphs.
shield bash, haven't tried that before but it does sound fun. and fun fact, shurelyas was originally named shurelyas reverie, which was a reference to marisa's spell card stardust reverie. league used to have so many cool references bro
Just started learning Sona and I don't regret it even with her being super squishy early on! your video is spot on explanation how she can be played and its really useful!
It's the same if you say Yone stole Yasuo's rework. Sona doesn't need a rework maybe only add some recast skillshots on Q, W and E and visual update of course to make her not that easy and boring. Sona is enchanter not mage. Riot can rework her if they want.
@matveylevin8042 sona completely needs a rework. She has no mechanics to play around other than her ulti which is ridiculously short and her power cords, which were omega nerfed since the last time she was meta.
I liked this video a lot. As a Nami OTP a lot of what you said also applies to her- especially about synergizing with an ADC. Nami can so easily dominate a lane IF her ADC knows how to use her. A surprising number of people don't know how her E works; that it slows the enemy, that it procs on abilities, that Nami will get on-hit procs from them using it (including money + PoM). I imagine both Sona and Nami players have to develop that sense of when their ADC is FINALLY going to poke the enemy to pop their buff. So frustrating to lose what should have been an easy lane because my AD is just too far up their own ass, or playing insanely safe into a lane I know we can win. That's why I thought it was so funny so many of those clips included a Caitlyn- she really is the best at utilizing both of these supports, IMO. I love Nami far too much to give up playing her, but before I picked her up I played Sona all the time as well. So cool to see someone proving that even these older, simpler enchanters can have high skill expression along with the 200 years champs.
@@SlashTheCupcake i mean, pretty rarely. she got some additional art and lore a good few years ago but since she has nothing to do with piltover or zaun, she's getting the same shaft everyone else is. her base recall animation to this day isnt even an animation, she just holds her staff up lol. and nami is one of the rare champions that actually is pretty well balanced and doesnt need her numbers tweaked constantly. i do feel for sona mains though. she's in dire need of some tuning.
Incredible video bro, even though I don't play with her anymore. She continues to be my favorite sup in the game, whenever I get the chance to play with her in Aram, for me it's pure fun.
i've been maining sona for 2 years, and this year i'm finally taking her into ranked. (never committed to it before!) this video is so informative and well-made, thank you. :) very interested on seeing your builds, movement speed sona sounds so fun.
This guide is incredibly well made and the writing is spot on, made me want to played Sona... not sure if i should thank you or not! More champs please
first ranked game I wanted to lock in Seraphine, but it was the first pick on the enemy team. I picked Sona because I had remembered countering with her in casual and winning once. Ended up stomping and realizing why i played her so much in casual. This vid covered so much of that feeling, I love this champ. Great video man!!
Great video. Kind of a long way to say that you like playing support on hard mode, but I enjoyed it a lot and learned some stuff, I probably won't get baited by a Sona for at least two weeks.
I miss when Sona did damage with Q before Riot decided to replace her with Seraphine and transform her into a weird bad enchanter that still actually uses mana in 2024
10:45 honestly, playing shaco support taught me this concept. a good support puts themselves in a bad position to absorb aggro. i transferred the shaco playstyle to karma and she became one of my strongest champs
My favorite Sona dopamine hit is when the enemy team is safely running away from a teamfight they would lose, and then you press E allowing your team to catch up slightly and apply CC which results in a massive snowballing effect for your team. Sadly I can't play her anymore, because lately there are too many champs that can effortlessly one-shot her eg: Pyke, Kayn, Yone,etc..
After seeing this video, everything you say is exactly as it is. As an ex Sona main (3rd most played champ as of now) I've lived through a lot of problems with people that just hate the champ, in some instances to the point my own team bans it. Some people (mostly toxic folks) really despise her. But I didn't really care. I really liked Sona even though all of my most played champions are not at all like her, like all my masteries come from engage supports/tanks/juggernauts/junglers with some exceptions for supports like Morgana. I really like Sona even though she is hard af to make her reliable in general. Positioning is key but even then you will just explode from damage and now it's even worse. I haven't played her much anymore but from time to time I go back and play mostly her because of her uniqueness, and I love her DJ skin, ethereal track is godly gorgeous and helps me relax while playing. I usually just turn off every sound in game and just let the music go on.
sona is actually the best tower damage champion in the game, even better than yorick or sion late game, i'm being completely serious with you. now, they're definitely not better at split pushing itself, but when it actually comes to tower damage, she's a rift herald if rifty decided to throw pianos at towers instead. without demolish, get lich bane and nashors, then just build ap, and you easily do 1400 damage to towers every time you do your blue power cord, which if you do e > w > q or w > e > q, is on a ~5 second cooldown. with demolish, you very easily do upwards of 1800-2000 damage to towers on blue power cord on it's proc. this is with items alone and just demolish. if you're fed, you're doing this in 20 to 30 minutes, gathering storm at this rate is helping a bit, quite a bit when you do rabadons, and demolish is pretty helpful if you want to focus on split pushing as the support which is hilarious to pull off. However, if you feel you're not going to touch towers very often you can do biscuits + archangels for some more sustain and still pull of crazy high tower damage numbers when you do touch them. Just save your abilities when you first walk up and you can chunk turret within the second you're in auto range, even if there's no minions which can translate to about ~500 damage to the tower per blue power cord. with her crazy low CD, open up with blue power cord, wait for demolish proc, then wait for your next power cord and hit it, it takes a bit of time but in early game this translates to hundreds or even 1000+ damage to towers. Be prepared for the enemy team to be like "holy FUCK sona is pressing ctrl + x on our towers" and getting camped out the ass if they have any semblance if being descent players, but with her e + r you can get out of these hairy situations quick if you can spot them coming well enough. pair this with other split push champions and objective pressure becomes insane for you, because if you can run away and distract the enemy then that's good for your split pusher and if they focus the unkillable split pusher then that's good for you, if they're focused on both of you then your jungle, mid and adc have jungle objective advantage/mid push advantage, and basically support your entire team from across the map. you typically win a duel if you have a full kit so if it's just one person then mid/jungle gets equalized objective pressure while you have all of it, which means they learn to send more than one at you and gives mid/jungle more advantage. here's the runes if you're curious: summon aery/comet manaflow band transcendence gathering storm demolish revitalize/bone plating (if you love poking and get punished for it too much or suspect to) OR magical footwear/triple tonic biscuits ability haste adaptive health scaling (if demolish ;))/the other two general build path if you're curious: tear(optional) > lichs > nashors (or boots second which is either sorc shoes/lucidity followed by nashors) > archangels/horizon focus > (any ap item to contend with the enemy) > rabadons (before or after fifth item) > sell boots for any other ap item, your e should keep you sped at this rate 24/7 + lich ms = sanic so it effectively becomes useless. for support item do zak zak, but it's not imperative to keep it unless you really need vision, if you plan on doing scaling ap items like rod, then build those first then follow with lichs + nashors. Likewise, lich is a core item, so you can probably settle for just tear in favor of lichs, but if you're taking a lot of damage or dying then it might be best to put it off as your third item. You're probably saying any ap champ can delete towers with lich + nashors, but because of sona's blue power cord, it's like rifty on crack. tl;dr sona is a sleeping split push support that, with lich's bane, nashors and other high ap items, can do 1000+ or even 2000 damage to towers if you run demolish.
As a Sona main, I run Dark Harvest and go for the lich bane rush, I literally called the rune page "Shotgun Sona", my enemies cower as I half hp them with sheen at level 4. I'm not locked in this match with you, YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME.
For some reason I find Sona the funniest support to play currently. I have been playing it on brazilian diamond and master with 60% plus win rate. I have tons of fun baiting because people go wild to chase sona, also dodging skill shots with my 400-500 speed (I love playing need 4 speed jhin on urf and dodging all skills, it's so fun), plus being able to stop the damage of a burster by 60% (passive + exhaust). I also love making assassins feel useless (trauma as an adc main of getting bursted if I lightly mispositionate). And I'm also able to consistenly engage offering 4s of 50% slow and 1,5s of stun, which is 6,5 of cc that is enough to make the target out of position and dies if I have a carry around. I feel this champion is so complete and her weaknesses can be overcomed with knowledge of the game, enemy decision prediction and skill. Pretty cool to hear someone talking about the strong side of this champion
I've been playing Sona as my main because I just love playing support in any games. Despite doing extensive research and training myself with power chords, I didn't actually think of a few things like baiting because enchanter. Many thanks dude
as a fellow sona main since S8 I agree with you and love to see others of us when we pop up. I was expecting to have to argue a point but you did a great job at highlighting very good general advise. I'll never get over how funny it is at times to steal a friends Penta in a team fight after kiting their assassin deep into our jung.
X: I have played Sona Me: thank you X: I haven't even started Me: no problem, I thank you and I appreciate you X: but?, but? Me: you play Sona, you are my hero and I love you, thank you, thank you, and many thanks, don't forget I'm grateful you play Sona
I am completely new to the game. I tried so many champions, but with last hit, KDA and so on, I felt miserable. I gave myself one last chance and picked Sona. Granted I am still abysmal at the game, but not needing to CS or Kill so much is such a relief. I don't need to be at the frontline or at the top of KDA, I just want to have fun. Even with my bad gameplay I feel that I can contribute something to the team. This is the only champion so far, where I really want to get better, just because it's fun. I never believed the guides that tell you to play what you like and not what's easy. Well they were right 🙂 Thanks for the video
My first ever chest contained DJ sona, I've been sold ever since. Thank you for the entertaining and informative video, I love this format, I need more.
This was so cool to watch, the way you script your videos is amazing. I like how you approach the themes of the video in a really informative, but also personal way. Insta sub 🥳
Hey, I enjoyed your video a lot! It inspired me to make my own version based on Mundo. It seemed like a lot of fun to talk about your main in such a manner, as well as being very humorous and informative.
It's crazy to me that you've been playing Sona for 6 years and never had to chance to experience and adequately scaled Sona. Early League Sona was a blast
hey, I was wondering what music you used around the 23:20/23:30-ish mark if you know :o really amazing video btw!!! love the editing on it - you deserve sooo many more subs
As someone who sometimes locks in sona and perma regrets it, this seems pretty accurate to my feelings each time. Just based on the context of the video i can tell youve played this character a bunch.
bruh i dont even play league but this video was like ... really great from just a storytelling standpoint. i love the theme of using what little you have to dominate a game, "you have a little, but you a lot and that's how it feels to play sona," goddamn what a powerful line. anyway really good video and now i want to play sona with 0 experience wtih league whatsoever
I'm glad you see the perspective of me and other good Sona users on how good Sona can be when used properly. Sona may be easy and simple, but using her utilities properly in any scenario and maximizing them creates a huge difference and that power makes Sona fun and satisfying to play.
I just absolutely love when the late game fed assassin thinks the adc is a free snack and gets hit with the exhaust w poweraccord combo and suddenly can't even get the adc to half-life
subbing for all the sona content. i used to main sona but no one just knows how to play with her, but so happy that i saw this video. maybe it’s time to get back to my first champ in league.
agreed, actually i think this applies much better as a general support tip instead of a sona tip - this season especially, as sona is one of the worst champions to use this strategy on right now.
Definitely a video that does justice to us Sona mains. I really like you aggressive your playstyle is. As for presence of mind, i find it more comfortable to run resolve as secondary tree on runes. Bone plating + the rune that gives heal and shield power make the landing phase sooo much more comfortable. I do agree that presence of mind feels right but you can definitely play without it (tear and mana Regen item kind of make up for it but not really) especially with the new blue buff that spreads to everyone now. I just tend to prefer not taking presence of mind for more utility. Great video !
I got DJ Sona in a chest one day, so now I've been chronically addicted to playing the champ for 5 years
What do u think of WR Sona rework? They change her skill expressive powerchord into mini TF stun bot
I similarly got Dj Sona on my first mystery random skin gift from a friend and then same
@@Sebastian36962 not sure, I haven't really played WR, but that sounds pretty dumb to me. i think they simplified a lot of kits for that game
Wow! I got the Epementalist Lux skin from a chest today, but everyone keeps banning her so I can't main her 😭
@@Sebastian36962there wasn't much skill expression in Sona to begin with, nothing much changed
My first pentakill was with Sona. I played her just to mess with my friends by being super squishy and stealing all the kills I can.
that's hilarious
Samee back in season 4 (or 5) when they added URF for the first time :D
Yeah in AP meta around s10/11 got one with the Elder buff haha
In very old metas Sona was seen as the most annoying broken support champ, famed for doing more damage than the ADC and stealing every kill. You'd get cursed at for picking Sona. I picked her a few times when I felt in a chaotic mood.
@@masterblaster2678 i loved that sona :c
I love Sona. At half a million points, it's my most played champion and I'm not embarrassed to say Sona and Janna have been carrying me to Diamond4 3 seasons in a row. BUT, one thing I always found weird is how disconnected with her thematic Sona is.
Riot has been doing their best to tie gameplay with thematic. So when you play Caitlyn you fell like you are playing a sniper police, and when you play Rengar, you fell like you are playing a hunter assassin. When you play Sona, you don't fell like a magical singer. She doesn't really have a thematic identity like other champs. And I get it, she is a older champion, before Riot started to really try to tie gameplay with thematic. But you get it.
She's not a magical singer, she's mute. She just plays her Etwahl imbued with magic.
My mistake. By singer I mean music artist@@dylandrews1114
well Seraphine pretty much character assassinated her in that regard.
Definitely my most played champion, but since I only play aram, I don't even have 200 games with her, and for some reason, if I'm not the one to get her on the rolls, no one will trade me.
Seraphine really was the Sona Rework, let's be real.
This video is insanely well made. Good stuff man!
i love you i0ki thank you so much bro
@@Miku16A1 No problem. Keep this level of quality up and you'll be one of the greats.
No way ioki responded Xd can we have miku on the forfunsquad
The video is fine the info in it is complete garbage.
As a Sona OTP I can say this video is inredibly well done and you deserve 100x the amount of subs you currently have
thanks bro
Your explanation of the "peeling" felt a lot like when I got bored with trying out new supports and tested non-traditional supports. Turns out Yasuo has a hidden passive that casts "Taunt" on every enemy in range. That combined with Windwall and the old Zeke's Harbinger made him a formidable tank support who could also put out some damage.
I love playing Sona, but damn they did her dirty by releasing Seraphine. And yes, this is an Arcade Sona profile pic.
Yasuo is especially taunting for things like Nasus. Bonk bonk and he's out.
Sona, the "lane bully" that gets bullied by everyone else in lane
I agree though, for such a simplistic and unassuming champion it's really satisfying to make use of her limited kit and playing to it's strengths, optimal usage of her power chords to turn the tides of a fight, using her ult to catch people who tried to get 1 last hit before backing away from your tower or just generally to win a tower dive feels great. Some lanes you don't get to do anything and just have to wait for late game, but being able to initiate fights and buff your entire team at once feels amazing.
Great video and editing!
She's a bully at lvl 1 then weak till midgame where she comes back online
That whole 'pulling the assassins on a string' thing, is something I REALLY relate to as a soraka main.
yeah, i can see soraka using the exact same strategy
Senna too! I view the support game almost entirely as convincing the enemy that there's a free kill on the table and then letting the ADC prove them right
fr
This is my mentality with almost every enchanter support
Milio does this super well too, due to his movementspeed on E
Lulu too
Nami similar
The amount of times I baited someone as Yuumi is way too high
People see any enchanter and think: "ohh free kill"
Unfortunately as a soraka you don't have the Sona ulti to get away from them.. yeah you can control enemy assassin movement with Soraka, but it isn't nearly as impactful as Sona kiting would be unless you get them bound and silenced without somehow dying in the process.
Soraka generally is more about giving her team infinite sustain and really wishing that they actually do something with it instead of constantly running away with full hp.
I swear there's some strange disease infecting league players currently which makes them completely unable to even attempt fighting enemy team until they just lose very slowly and it's driving me crazy as a fan of support role who really like trying to help their team do well instead of being a fake midlaner in support role without items. Voice communication would fix this, but I really really don't want to read what league players type on average game, let alone hear them speak.
This video feels like I’m back in 2016-2018 league TH-cam era. Great production value and writing plus you have a voice for videos. Keep it up!
My buddy happened upon this video of yours and immediately sent it to me. I've been playing League since season 4, started playing Sona in Preseason 5, and the rest is history. Currently MR 7, 748k points, and peaked Diamond 1 (mostly) one tricking Sona. The moment I saw the title and thumbnail, I just KNEW I had to watch it with him so that I will have a witness for the absolute madness of two souls being on the same wavelength. Before we hit play, I listed out some possible things you might talk about in this video. Lo and Behold, everything I mentioned, you ended up talking about in some way in your video. Never before had I seen or encountered anyone else who understood this champion as much as I think I do, even in the Sonamains Discord. I think you were able to perfectly sum up Sona's identity as a champion, as a support, and as a piece of scrap that has been neglected and abandoned by the developers for their shiny new pieces of scrap. I don't want to go into the nitty gritty of everything, about how much I agree with the salient points of your video, and how I disagree with some of your takes, but just know, that I sincerely respect you as a fellow Sona main who also started playing her because she's a borderline rip off of Hatsune Miku. Just know, that you've earned yourself a like and a sub my friend.
thanks bro
Sona was the first champ that allowed me to reach Master and Grandmaster. She doesnt have flashy plays but a good sona can focus the attention of the enemies so hard that your team can just steamroll them. Its a very good strategy, im impressed you found that out on your own :3
Secret tip to win lane: Get spellblade after boots and tear and poke poke poke ;)
i personally have a really, really, REALLY bad habit of KSing and i have to imagine spellblade would only exacerbate that problem, but it does sound like a lot of fun. i also want to try the spellblade support item to see if it's worth using. thanks for your insight bro.
Spellblade? What item is that?
@@ChappellsDaughter it's an effect on Sheen and newly on Bloodsong that gives you extra on-hit damage after using an ability. pairs really nicely with power chords and ability spam
man i've been using dream maker like a chump, is bloodsong really the way?@@Miku16A1
Are you going Q max
Sona was actually my first main ever and i played her back in s8 when there was no passive ui but after time i just stopped completly playing support cuz it was so frustrating to see the outcome of the game locked behind my adc, now it's locked behind my jungler
This what u have is just a ilusion
Jungle role has always been strong. I think that as players overall have become better at the game, it is far more evident how powerful the role is in relation to others.
@@checkyoursixgamingDon't let jungle mains see this.
As a Sona OTP with 1.5 million points, I can't say that untill this video came out, someone even came close to understanding Sona as a champion, you've described her really well, even the inting part, which my friend named "Sona sacrifice", she just pulls out a certain playstyle out of you, which in the end leaves you in control of the game. I've been a Sona main for the past 8-9 years of my life. Did I enjoy those 8-9 years? No, not really, because witch each patch, they killed my love more and more, and turned her into a champion she is today. Also, what I'd like to add, everyone assumes you're an E-GIRL, when you play Sona, so if you are losing, you have to use the chat or all chat to control the game, and disturbe enemy champions into giving yourself and your team the advantage to win. It also, doesn't hurt, to tilt your enemies early game, and you get camped and fucked entire game, because you have a lot of points, so you give openings to your jungle in other places. At the end of the day, Sona is the only reason I still enjoy LoL, and you give my baby justice!
😢
This actually makes me feel, "Someone felt what I felt everytime I play sona". I just played sona because she is musician (which is lame excuse) and easy at first glance. I subscribed by the way because I want Sona to rule some day..
Shes not easy „at first glance“
She is easy period
@@coolmetin02 She is basic, but she is the hardest to master. Not flashy at all, but strong in good hards. Like Sivir, not flashy at all, but in good hands, can wipe an entire team in a couple of secods.
@@MatiasDypala silver peaker sona main probably.
Shes not even close for hardest to master. Because there is nothing you can master.
Only things you have to look for is good positioning and your passive ability uses. And neither of them are difficult.
@@coolmetin02 gold yasuo main peaker who thinks is good probably.
@@MatiasDypala i peaked diamond 3 and at least yasuo takes skill but i dont play him anymore
I main support with enchanters so i know about sona well
This guide is so incredibly useful. How do you not have more subscribers from this alone? Keep up the great work!
i do currently have like 1000 more from this alone but thank you bro. im really glad you guys are liking it
19:46 I had completely forgotten this monstrosity of Chemtech Dragon map ever existed!
so glad they removed that omg
I call Sona "the silent killer", she's like a scratch on your arm that if you ignore, can make your whole arm fall off. I love playing her precisely because of how much the enemy team always tends to underestimate her in the early game, until it's too late - she's scaled and turned into the most important member of the team that commands the fights. I love that you described understanding the point of her gameplay as "something that clicked one day" because that's exactly how it was for me too.
This is honestly some of the best league content i've seen in years. If you have any other champs you're passionate about you should really consider making this a series.
bad news: i do NOT have any other champs i'm passionate about. if anything, i hope this can reach and encourage OTPs of other champs to do the same thing for how they like to play.
hello guys
hello
Gold detected, Opinion Rejected
What are your thoughts on Gwen
hi migu
@@trollverse171 i love gwen but she's kinda composition/matchup specific and i don't have any builds on her that i really like so i rarely play her
didn't expect to be completely caught by a sona video
i love how you express and edit this video and the humor you put in to play Sona.
So tonight ima play Sona after start playing her as free champ after like 7 years ago
I miss back in like 2016 Sona's passive was easily viable for carrying. Today if I get ahead I can still carry in weird situations even as damage but that's really only realistic in games plat and under.
I miss playing Sona mid and being able to half life mages after just lichbane with Auto reset Q powercord and ult
@@thepompf2049being able to one shot a Leblanc in the past was ugh… chefs kiss
I want to be put into Sona's box.
Aight bro.
🗿
Flashing in place and mute all changed my life
The video is insanely well done! I'm enjoying every single second of it 😍
I loved the previous seasons when Dark Harvest Shotgan Sona was a thing. I could one shot people with Sona back then, and feel like the main character.
The funniest thing is how these players now cry about mages on support position
Sona is Miku the same way Lux is Marisa.
Whenever I play Sona, it's hilarious to see people try to kill me through W powerchord and exhaust. It's also fun if you go Shield Bash. It actually was fun with Seraphs.
shield bash, haven't tried that before but it does sound fun.
and fun fact, shurelyas was originally named shurelyas reverie, which was a reference to marisa's spell card stardust reverie. league used to have so many cool references bro
Idk why it was so funny to '?' ping the training dummy while explaining speed buff, lmao
I always had the feeling that Seraphine was actually the Sona rework that she deserves.
That's why so many players still hate Seraphine to this day. She is functionally Sona 2.0 while Sona was left to rot.
Just started learning Sona and I don't regret it even with her being super squishy early on! your video is spot on explanation how she can be played and its really useful!
Let’s be honest, Seraphine stole Sona’s rework 🥲
It's the same if you say Yone stole Yasuo's rework. Sona doesn't need a rework maybe only add some recast skillshots on Q, W and E and visual update of course to make her not that easy and boring. Sona is enchanter not mage. Riot can rework her if they want.
let's be honest OP, I think you have a major misunderstanding of both champions at a fundamental level :/
Kinda but no. They could have given Sona Sera's passive and made Sona's Q a skillshot, but she doesn't need it
@matveylevin8042 sona completely needs a rework. She has no mechanics to play around other than her ulti which is ridiculously short and her power cords, which were omega nerfed since the last time she was meta.
would love to see your builds. Used to play a lot of sona back in season 4-6, I think. But with every update the champ just feels worse.
She was great and I would always play her, especially when DJ Sona came out and then like two weeks later they would just nerf and nerf. Poor Sona
really really well made video bro. Deserves a couple hundred thousand views. I hope you can scale of this video
ayo this is a great guide/play analysis, i hope it gets more attention! good work
thanks bro
Great video i love that you interact with your community!
I liked this video a lot. As a Nami OTP a lot of what you said also applies to her- especially about synergizing with an ADC. Nami can so easily dominate a lane IF her ADC knows how to use her. A surprising number of people don't know how her E works; that it slows the enemy, that it procs on abilities, that Nami will get on-hit procs from them using it (including money + PoM). I imagine both Sona and Nami players have to develop that sense of when their ADC is FINALLY going to poke the enemy to pop their buff. So frustrating to lose what should have been an easy lane because my AD is just too far up their own ass, or playing insanely safe into a lane I know we can win. That's why I thought it was so funny so many of those clips included a Caitlyn- she really is the best at utilizing both of these supports, IMO. I love Nami far too much to give up playing her, but before I picked her up I played Sona all the time as well. So cool to see someone proving that even these older, simpler enchanters can have high skill expression along with the 200 years champs.
great insights bro, thank you
Except riot actually remembers that nami exists outside of skins.
@@SlashTheCupcake i mean, pretty rarely. she got some additional art and lore a good few years ago but since she has nothing to do with piltover or zaun, she's getting the same shaft everyone else is. her base recall animation to this day isnt even an animation, she just holds her staff up lol. and nami is one of the rare champions that actually is pretty well balanced and doesnt need her numbers tweaked constantly. i do feel for sona mains though. she's in dire need of some tuning.
If you don’t die as sona , you can play sona
Incredible video bro, even though I don't play with her anymore. She continues to be my favorite sup in the game, whenever I get the chance to play with her in Aram, for me it's pure fun.
i've been maining sona for 2 years, and this year i'm finally taking her into ranked. (never committed to it before!) this video is so informative and well-made, thank you. :) very interested on seeing your builds, movement speed sona sounds so fun.
This guide is incredibly well made and the writing is spot on, made me want to played Sona... not sure if i should thank you or not! More champs please
if you want to play sona then i failed but im glad you liked it thanks bro
@@Miku16A1 You didn't fail, you made me believe i could be a Sona god with all this information. Honestly keep at it bro
Miku Miku you can call me... Sona
Sona helped me climb through gold back in S5/S6, but as I going up, things were getting hard with Sona, but I like her a lot!
first ranked game I wanted to lock in Seraphine, but it was the first pick on the enemy team. I picked Sona because I had remembered countering with her in casual and winning once. Ended up stomping and realizing why i played her so much in casual. This vid covered so much of that feeling, I love this champ. Great video man!!
I love Sona so much. And yeah no one knows how much she provides and how to play with her.
Great video.
Kind of a long way to say that you like playing support on hard mode, but I enjoyed it a lot and learned some stuff, I probably won't get baited by a Sona for at least two weeks.
I miss when Sona did damage with Q before Riot decided to replace her with Seraphine and transform her into a weird bad enchanter that still actually uses mana in 2024
Sona was garbage way before serpahine came out. Thats why everyone calls her the sona rework she needed.
im so happy to see you going shurelya, i got an 80% wr with it in ranked and no one believed it was good
This is a great video. A good mix of semi toxic league humor, mixed with good info. Well done 🙏
this is so well made. i think you have potential to be big
il be honest i love sona.. her easy kit helps you focus on other things like positioning right, timing your abilities, using R when necessary ..etc
I just want to say after watching your video weeks ago iv been able do really well with sona.
Believe in this mans words.
Sona is like most champions, how you move and how you stand in reference to your team and enemies.
just dodjed because of ranked rammus adc and finding ur vid for 30 min penality was the best thing i can do
luv u u need more subs
As someone who loves Sona with all his heart, my advice is:
If you wanna play Sona, do it in Wild Rift
Dont play wild rift at all
10:45 honestly, playing shaco support taught me this concept. a good support puts themselves in a bad position to absorb aggro. i transferred the shaco playstyle to karma and she became one of my strongest champs
Well played! I hope to see more of your Sona games soon :>
My favorite Sona dopamine hit is when the enemy team is safely running away from a teamfight they would lose, and then you press E allowing your team to catch up slightly and apply CC which results in a massive snowballing effect for your team.
Sadly I can't play her anymore, because lately there are too many champs that can effortlessly one-shot her eg: Pyke, Kayn, Yone,etc..
“I’ve been playing Sona for 6 years”
I’m sorry for your loss
After seeing this video, everything you say is exactly as it is. As an ex Sona main (3rd most played champ as of now) I've lived through a lot of problems with people that just hate the champ, in some instances to the point my own team bans it. Some people (mostly toxic folks) really despise her.
But I didn't really care. I really liked Sona even though all of my most played champions are not at all like her, like all my masteries come from engage supports/tanks/juggernauts/junglers with some exceptions for supports like Morgana. I really like Sona even though she is hard af to make her reliable in general. Positioning is key but even then you will just explode from damage and now it's even worse. I haven't played her much anymore but from time to time I go back and play mostly her because of her uniqueness, and I love her DJ skin, ethereal track is godly gorgeous and helps me relax while playing. I usually just turn off every sound in game and just let the music go on.
Bro! Congrats on your viral video!! This is insaaaaneeee
sona is actually the best tower damage champion in the game, even better than yorick or sion late game, i'm being completely serious with you. now, they're definitely not better at split pushing itself, but when it actually comes to tower damage, she's a rift herald if rifty decided to throw pianos at towers instead. without demolish, get lich bane and nashors, then just build ap, and you easily do 1400 damage to towers every time you do your blue power cord, which if you do e > w > q or w > e > q, is on a ~5 second cooldown. with demolish, you very easily do upwards of 1800-2000 damage to towers on blue power cord on it's proc. this is with items alone and just demolish. if you're fed, you're doing this in 20 to 30 minutes, gathering storm at this rate is helping a bit, quite a bit when you do rabadons, and demolish is pretty helpful if you want to focus on split pushing as the support which is hilarious to pull off. However, if you feel you're not going to touch towers very often you can do biscuits + archangels for some more sustain and still pull of crazy high tower damage numbers when you do touch them. Just save your abilities when you first walk up and you can chunk turret within the second you're in auto range, even if there's no minions which can translate to about ~500 damage to the tower per blue power cord. with her crazy low CD, open up with blue power cord, wait for demolish proc, then wait for your next power cord and hit it, it takes a bit of time but in early game this translates to hundreds or even 1000+ damage to towers. Be prepared for the enemy team to be like "holy FUCK sona is pressing ctrl + x on our towers" and getting camped out the ass if they have any semblance if being descent players, but with her e + r you can get out of these hairy situations quick if you can spot them coming well enough. pair this with other split push champions and objective pressure becomes insane for you, because if you can run away and distract the enemy then that's good for your split pusher and if they focus the unkillable split pusher then that's good for you, if they're focused on both of you then your jungle, mid and adc have jungle objective advantage/mid push advantage, and basically support your entire team from across the map. you typically win a duel if you have a full kit so if it's just one person then mid/jungle gets equalized objective pressure while you have all of it, which means they learn to send more than one at you and gives mid/jungle more advantage.
here's the runes if you're curious:
summon aery/comet
manaflow band
transcendence
gathering storm
demolish
revitalize/bone plating (if you love poking and get punished for it too much or suspect to)
OR
magical footwear/triple tonic
biscuits
ability haste
adaptive
health scaling (if demolish ;))/the other two
general build path if you're curious:
tear(optional) > lichs > nashors (or boots second which is either sorc shoes/lucidity followed by nashors) > archangels/horizon focus > (any ap item to contend with the enemy) > rabadons (before or after fifth item) > sell boots for any other ap item, your e should keep you sped at this rate 24/7 + lich ms = sanic so it effectively becomes useless.
for support item do zak zak, but it's not imperative to keep it unless you really need vision, if you plan on doing scaling ap items like rod, then build those first then follow with lichs + nashors. Likewise, lich is a core item, so you can probably settle for just tear in favor of lichs, but if you're taking a lot of damage or dying then it might be best to put it off as your third item.
You're probably saying any ap champ can delete towers with lich + nashors, but because of sona's blue power cord, it's like rifty on crack.
tl;dr sona is a sleeping split push support that, with lich's bane, nashors and other high ap items, can do 1000+ or even 2000 damage to towers if you run demolish.
As a Sona main, I run Dark Harvest and go for the lich bane rush, I literally called the rune page "Shotgun Sona", my enemies cower as I half hp them with sheen at level 4. I'm not locked in this match with you, YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME.
For some reason I find Sona the funniest support to play currently. I have been playing it on brazilian diamond and master with 60% plus win rate. I have tons of fun baiting because people go wild to chase sona, also dodging skill shots with my 400-500 speed (I love playing need 4 speed jhin on urf and dodging all skills, it's so fun), plus being able to stop the damage of a burster by 60% (passive + exhaust). I also love making assassins feel useless (trauma as an adc main of getting bursted if I lightly mispositionate). And I'm also able to consistenly engage offering 4s of 50% slow and 1,5s of stun, which is 6,5 of cc that is enough to make the target out of position and dies if I have a carry around. I feel this champion is so complete and her weaknesses can be overcomed with knowledge of the game, enemy decision prediction and skill. Pretty cool to hear someone talking about the strong side of this champion
24:44 You mean you've had dravens with 2 kills per minute, some of those were just on the other side.
I do not play Sona except when i am graced by her presence in ARAM. Excellent video.
Wow, amazing video! It turns our Sona is such an interesting an complex character! Time to pick my Senna.
your senna is 60% winrate in ADC role right now happy climbs bro get that LP before hotfix
This is such an amazing video. I cant wait to see your recommended Sona Builds, like that MS sona.
You've just convinced me to play more Sona (despite the 2652819 warnings NOT to play her)
Sona was the first champ I ever played and she’s just so fun exactly because she’s subtle! Love her passive and hitting her ult is super satisfying
I've been playing Sona as my main because I just love playing support in any games. Despite doing extensive research and training myself with power chords, I didn't actually think of a few things like baiting because enchanter. Many thanks dude
2:50 I mained Sona mid/top since 2010 until 2020 for the same reason... I just get done with the constants nerfs to her ap ratios
as a fellow sona main since S8 I agree with you and love to see others of us when we pop up. I was expecting to have to argue a point but you did a great job at highlighting very good general advise. I'll never get over how funny it is at times to steal a friends Penta in a team fight after kiting their assassin deep into our jung.
I haven't played Sona in years. But you did a good job making her look appealing again. Great video!
X: I have played Sona
Me: thank you
X: I haven't even started
Me: no problem, I thank you and I appreciate you
X: but?, but?
Me: you play Sona, you are my hero and I love you, thank you, thank you, and many thanks, don't forget I'm grateful you play Sona
Sona being one of my main champs that carried me out of low elo, I loved this video, amazingly well done
I am completely new to the game. I tried so many champions, but with last hit, KDA and so on, I felt miserable. I gave myself one last chance and picked Sona.
Granted I am still abysmal at the game, but not needing to CS or Kill so much is such a relief. I don't need to be at the frontline or at the top of KDA, I just want to have fun. Even with my bad gameplay I feel that I can contribute something to the team. This is the only champion so far, where I really want to get better, just because it's fun.
I never believed the guides that tell you to play what you like and not what's easy. Well they were right 🙂
Thanks for the video
My first ever chest contained DJ sona, I've been sold ever since. Thank you for the entertaining and informative video, I love this format, I need more.
This was so cool to watch, the way you script your videos is amazing.
I like how you approach the themes of the video in a really informative, but also personal way.
Insta sub 🥳
How to play sona: /muteself
"Only YOU can hear me, summoner."
"From my mind to yours."
Hey, I enjoyed your video a lot! It inspired me to make my own version based on Mundo. It seemed like a lot of fun to talk about your main in such a manner, as well as being very humorous and informative.
thanks for telling me about this bro. awesome stuff.
Instructions unclear, the enemy 10/0 camille jumped on me from 2 screens away and oneshotted me.
this is word for word what i’d put in a video for sona, glad to see some other people with sophisticated palettes!
It's crazy to me that you've been playing Sona for 6 years and never had to chance to experience and adequately scaled Sona. Early League Sona was a blast
hey, I was wondering what music you used around the 23:20/23:30-ish mark if you know :o
really amazing video btw!!! love the editing on it - you deserve sooo many more subs
nami's theme from one piece
tysm!!!
As someone who sometimes locks in sona and perma regrets it, this seems pretty accurate to my feelings each time. Just based on the context of the video i can tell youve played this character a bunch.
bruh i dont even play league but this video was like ... really great from just a storytelling standpoint. i love the theme of using what little you have to dominate a game, "you have a little, but you a lot and that's how it feels to play sona," goddamn what a powerful line. anyway really good video and now i want to play sona with 0 experience wtih league whatsoever
you're like the Joseph Anderson of sona mains
thank you for this pretty cool video
I'm glad you see the perspective of me and other good Sona users on how good Sona can be when used properly. Sona may be easy and simple, but using her utilities properly in any scenario and maximizing them creates a huge difference and that power makes Sona fun and satisfying to play.
im not gonna watch all 27 minutes of this in one sitting, but as a fellow sona enjoyer I will watch it all. eventually
i appreciate it bro. do what u gotta do
didnt know u had 355 subs till I had to unfullscreen to see your pfp. Amazing video honestly, it was engaging, funny, and resourceful keep it up :)
this was a great video bro 😂
I just absolutely love when the late game fed assassin thinks the adc is a free snack and gets hit with the exhaust w poweraccord combo and suddenly can't even get the adc to half-life
subbing for all the sona content. i used to main sona but no one just knows how to play with her, but so happy that i saw this video. maybe it’s time to get back to my first champ in league.
this video could've been summed up in 2-3 minutes after you finished your monologue with "you might as well play her right"
I just realised I watched that for 26 minutes
10:56 This is something every support player needs to learn with this video. I wish it was stated in support guides period. It's so important.
agreed, actually i think this applies much better as a general support tip instead of a sona tip - this season especially, as sona is one of the worst champions to use this strategy on right now.
Literally the only guide i've seen from someone who knows
This feels like a documentary, really good video!
Definitely a video that does justice to us Sona mains. I really like you aggressive your playstyle is. As for presence of mind, i find it more comfortable to run resolve as secondary tree on runes. Bone plating + the rune that gives heal and shield power make the landing phase sooo much more comfortable. I do agree that presence of mind feels right but you can definitely play without it (tear and mana Regen item kind of make up for it but not really) especially with the new blue buff that spreads to everyone now. I just tend to prefer not taking presence of mind for more utility.
Great video !