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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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'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.
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
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
Sona was the first champion that I mastered and she was recommended to me when I first started playing league due to her "simplicity". I think a lot of players (myself included) have the misconception that Sona cannot do damage (due to her being labeled as a heal and shield bot). When I was less experienced, I always tried to auto attack enemy champions during skirmishes and would often kill steal with a power chord on accident. One game, I ks-ed 7 times and my solo que ADC and mid-laner were outright pissed and yelling obscenities at me in the chat. I was also given a lot of advice from my adc duo on positioning parallel or behind my adc during laning phase and all the way at the back or middle during team fights (due to her general squishiness). A Sona standing at the front line is like a death wish.
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
As a fellow Sona main I can confirm. Laning is basicaly lost and unless your Jungler is a Gigachad 1v3 guy he should not play around bot too much UNTIL you hit lvl 6. Also Teamfights are where you shine. If the enemies don't kill you within 2 seconds you will inevitably win the fight... unless the enemy team has a Samira... If by some fucking miracle your team is winning the early game you will win it even harder and faster with Sona.
There is no other support champion I enjoy playing more than Sona. I love her kit, her gameplay and how her squishiness misleads enemies, especially when I spice up my item kit with one tank item like gauntlet. Nothing more satisfying when you bait them into their death. I truely see her as an op champion. They always think she is the easiest target.
I play Sona because I used to one trick APC Sona Q power chord nuke in the glory days of 2015/2016 and I was. A machine. A horrifying machine of death. Every so often I play her for the nostalgia hoping one day I’ll lock in and she will magically be back to her old self….. god I miss her.
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.
I'm a simple man that got interested in the game because of Sona+Ahri fanart from 2014, so I'll gladly take this lesson on how to properly play one of the 2 best character designs in the game.
Old Sona main here. A couple of interesting notes: - To learn sona well, it's very helpful to hover over your q and w to know what the actual range of them are. This will help with safely poking and with max range heal saves, which happens more often than not (the range of w is huge). It's very important to stay at your max range due to your extremely low self-agency. - Versus mage supports (Brand, Xerath) you can just sit back and level w first. It having a shield and heal at the same time really helps keeping your ally alive. Mage supports rely on takedown income to stay relevant in the mid/lategame, so denying any chances of that happening puts your scaling champion on an easy advantage. I used to buy relic shield into those matchups, never had a single problem. - , Make sure you don't solo cover any towers. Her minion killing capability is one of the worst in the game. - Your power chord is an auto attack reset, you can AA on two stacks, cast an ability, and power chord aa immediately after. With that being said, when the game starts, cast your first ability two times so your first burst is stronger (I saw you do that in one of the early clips in this vid, but I didn't hear you mention it) - Prioritise W and E power chords over Q. In early game you can strongly poke with above mentioned tactic (aa > q > aa procs all support item stacks) - It's very easy to steal kills with q>aa, but her power doesn't really come from items, whereas your ADC does. Make sure you steal as little kills as you can. Love the rest of your video! Very clear information. I agree with the pyke hate.
i did mention the ability cast in base, but actually riot added 2 points in that part of the passive on game start, so you don't have to do it anymore. KSing is something i totally forgot to mention, which sucks because it's a big part of the kind of frustrating accidental shit that happens when playing sona. same with overestimating W's massive heal range, i would've liked to mention that as well, just slipped my mind when writing. probably worked out that i didn't though, would've added like 5 extra minutes of length onto the video. these are great points though, maybe i'll be able to cover them some day.
Well her play style has changed so much over the years. Old ap Sona with the seraph's active shield and barrier made her a mage with good heals via athene's and utility with power chords (when you could still get in range to send out the power chord without getting one shot in range lol). She's a total shell of what she used to be in terms of that and the q damage ratio nerfs a few years ago completely alienated a large portion of her player base
HooMaaGush, its amazingi! I main Sona since season 7 and... Still hardstuck silver-gold max with 1.5m mastery. I don't think this video will change anything, buy I'm always happy to see something new about my Maven.
I'm an ex-league player and a Sona main, this was ages ago tho. Good to find that not much as changed but also the things that have changed are :( Also love the Lulu mention cuz she was my second main
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.
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.
I played back in the day a Tank Soraka, basically the bait king, could never die, and my entire team would just wipe the floor with the enemies that went after me. Support is bait, and the clench pen to a good ambush.
My best League moments were both with Sona. A 2vs5 Penta Kill when i was giga fed as a mid Sona. And that 1 time I 1v1 a Lee Sin and juked his abilities by utilizing my E movement speed buff, and the power chord slow. She will always have a place in my heart
The fact that seraphine was mentioned only once must have taken a lot of self control if riot made my favourite champion a "2.0 version" and forgot the original i would have been furious
Giga chad Hatsune Miku enjoyer producing argubly one of the biggest videos for league guides for their favorite champion. You love to see it. Nothing more, nothing less. Highly entertaining. (Also bonus points for shit talking Senna, an abomination of a design since release that I feel like not many people know about)
I hope that this video will inspire a lot of new sona players! I just love playing ageanst them and going all in at level 2. Doing thatbis so fun and think that it should happen more often!
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.
So many good points. Honestly, Sona's biggest strength is her insane ability to just bait. Doesnt matter the ELO, everyone will zero in to kill you, no matter the consequences.
Man I Love Sona, I've been maining her for almost 8 years now (I miss full tank Sona😭), and she's the champion that made me enjoy playing support. As a fellow completely self taught Sona player, I'm glad I already use almost every tip and strategy here in my games (baiting ad assassins with Frozen Heart is funny af) It's kinda sad that this is the first in-depth video about her I've ever stumbled upon, 10/10 content tho, would recommend
My first main. Still love her even though i've done long road to my current playstile and do not play sona. Though in 5th season she was of course way more powerfull Btw, AP SONA is really fun thing. They do not expect to lose 2/3 of their face by q+power chord
Sona's my most played character and its so cool seeing more people talking about her! I'm very similar to you that I played fps games a whole bunch with a focus on damage but came to league and fell in love with support. Great video! Edit:wtf you have 800 subs lmao i thought this was from some big channel id never seen before
Some people prefer simpler non flashy champions, not everything has to be reworked into a soul sucking skillshot. There are other mechanics that adhere to casual but masterful playstyles that let fellow summoners enjoy thier in game experience :)
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.
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.
as a ex high diamond sona top main currently masters, sona is not a low impact enchanter but rather is only that until you start getting some gold around level 11 or so then you become a high dps burst mage with your secondary role being a enchanter to help your team, you are the hard carry of your team, keeping your team alive while also half healthing any champ that comes close, as long as you stay alive in a team fight and play it well you will win it, also why build support when you can build damage and carry instead, its more fun that way.
Nobody knows how to play sona fr, i will go in more depth in my own video on stuff he didnt mention in other channel. Thank you for the inspiration and clearing up the confusion
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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
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
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
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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
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
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
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.
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 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 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
19:46 I had completely forgotten this monstrosity of Chemtech Dragon map ever existed!
so glad they removed that omg
The video is insanely well done! I'm enjoying every single second of it 😍
Flashing in place and mute all changed my life
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
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
didn't expect to be completely caught by a sona video
ayo this is a great guide/play analysis, i hope it gets more attention! good work
thanks bro
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
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.
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
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!
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
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 quit league but I used to main Sona, this is so nostalgic, almost makes me wanna play again. Almost.
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.
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'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 is a great video. A good mix of semi toxic league humor, mixed with good info. 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
"I played Sona for 6 years cuz she looks like Miku"
Relatable af
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
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
You've just convinced me to play more Sona (despite the 2652819 warnings NOT to play her)
Idk why it was so funny to '?' ping the training dummy while explaining speed buff, lmao
Miku Miku you can call me... Sona
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
If you don’t die as sona , you can play sona
im so happy to see you going shurelya, i got an 80% wr with it in ranked and no one believed it was good
mkultra casually dropping a 10k-in-a-day banger, you got that good quality content tho, hope you blow up to pieces in game
Support was NEVER about YOU BEEING STRONG, it was about letting your Players LOOK STRONG!
Sona was the first champion that I mastered and she was recommended to me when I first started playing league due to her "simplicity". I think a lot of players (myself included) have the misconception that Sona cannot do damage (due to her being labeled as a heal and shield bot). When I was less experienced, I always tried to auto attack enemy champions during skirmishes and would often kill steal with a power chord on accident. One game, I ks-ed 7 times and my solo que ADC and mid-laner were outright pissed and yelling obscenities at me in the chat.
I was also given a lot of advice from my adc duo on positioning parallel or behind my adc during laning phase and all the way at the back or middle during team fights (due to her general squishiness). A Sona standing at the front line is like a death wish.
Instructions unclear, the enemy 10/0 camille jumped on me from 2 screens away and oneshotted me.
Whenever i played support i realized i was also being targeted. Thx for pointing that out, now i can use that to my advantage :)
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
Great video i love that you interact with your community!
I do not play Sona except when i am graced by her presence in ARAM. Excellent video.
As a fellow Sona main I can confirm. Laning is basicaly lost and unless your Jungler is a Gigachad 1v3 guy he should not play around bot too much UNTIL you hit lvl 6.
Also Teamfights are where you shine. If the enemies don't kill you within 2 seconds you will inevitably win the fight... unless the enemy team has a Samira...
If by some fucking miracle your team is winning the early game you will win it even harder and faster with Sona.
There is no other support champion I enjoy playing more than Sona. I love her kit, her gameplay and how her squishiness misleads enemies, especially when I spice up my item kit with one tank item like gauntlet. Nothing more satisfying when you bait them into their death. I truely see her as an op champion. They always think she is the easiest target.
I play Sona because I used to one trick APC Sona Q power chord nuke in the glory days of 2015/2016 and I was. A machine. A horrifying machine of death.
Every so often I play her for the nostalgia hoping one day I’ll lock in and she will magically be back to her old self….. god I miss her.
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.
I'm a simple man that got interested in the game because of Sona+Ahri fanart from 2014, so I'll gladly take this lesson on how to properly play one of the 2 best character designs in the game.
Old Sona main here. A couple of interesting notes:
- To learn sona well, it's very helpful to hover over your q and w to know what the actual range of them are. This will help with safely poking and with max range heal saves, which happens more often than not (the range of w is huge). It's very important to stay at your max range due to your extremely low self-agency.
- Versus mage supports (Brand, Xerath) you can just sit back and level w first. It having a shield and heal at the same time really helps keeping your ally alive. Mage supports rely on takedown income to stay relevant in the mid/lategame, so denying any chances of that happening puts your scaling champion on an easy advantage. I used to buy relic shield into those matchups, never had a single problem.
- , Make sure you don't solo cover any towers. Her minion killing capability is one of the worst in the game.
- Your power chord is an auto attack reset, you can AA on two stacks, cast an ability, and power chord aa immediately after. With that being said, when the game starts, cast your first ability two times so your first burst is stronger (I saw you do that in one of the early clips in this vid, but I didn't hear you mention it)
- Prioritise W and E power chords over Q. In early game you can strongly poke with above mentioned tactic (aa > q > aa procs all support item stacks)
- It's very easy to steal kills with q>aa, but her power doesn't really come from items, whereas your ADC does. Make sure you steal as little kills as you can.
Love the rest of your video! Very clear information. I agree with the pyke hate.
i did mention the ability cast in base, but actually riot added 2 points in that part of the passive on game start, so you don't have to do it anymore. KSing is something i totally forgot to mention, which sucks because it's a big part of the kind of frustrating accidental shit that happens when playing sona. same with overestimating W's massive heal range, i would've liked to mention that as well, just slipped my mind when writing. probably worked out that i didn't though, would've added like 5 extra minutes of length onto the video. these are great points though, maybe i'll be able to cover them some day.
@@Miku16A1 ah I must've missed that part then. Glad you like the feedback!
you're like the Joseph Anderson of sona mains
thank you for this pretty cool video
Well her play style has changed so much over the years. Old ap Sona with the seraph's active shield and barrier made her a mage with good heals via athene's and utility with power chords (when you could still get in range to send out the power chord without getting one shot in range lol). She's a total shell of what she used to be in terms of that and the q damage ratio nerfs a few years ago completely alienated a large portion of her player base
HooMaaGush, its amazingi! I main Sona since season 7 and... Still hardstuck silver-gold max with 1.5m mastery. I don't think this video will change anything, buy I'm always happy to see something new about my Maven.
I'm an ex-league player and a Sona main, this was ages ago tho. Good to find that not much as changed but also the things that have changed are :(
Also love the Lulu mention cuz she was my second main
How it looks playing sona from outside : uwuu biig booba gamer girl
How it feels playing her : *gigachad slaying people with power of music*
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.
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.
I played back in the day a Tank Soraka, basically the bait king, could never die, and my entire team would just wipe the floor with the enemies that went after me. Support is bait, and the clench pen to a good ambush.
My best League moments were both with Sona. A 2vs5 Penta Kill when i was giga fed as a mid Sona. And that 1 time I 1v1 a Lee Sin and juked his abilities by utilizing my E movement speed buff, and the power chord slow. She will always have a place in my heart
The fact that seraphine was mentioned only once must have taken a lot of self control if riot made my favourite champion a "2.0 version" and forgot the original i would have been furious
Giga chad Hatsune Miku enjoyer producing argubly one of the biggest videos for league guides for their favorite champion. You love to see it.
Nothing more, nothing less. Highly entertaining.
(Also bonus points for shit talking Senna, an abomination of a design since release that I feel like not many people know about)
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
Me playing Luna in The First Descendant after playing Sona after her release: *neuron activated*
I hope that this video will inspire a lot of new sona players!
I just love playing ageanst them and going all in at level 2. Doing thatbis so fun and think that it should happen more often!
This is such an amazing video. I cant wait to see your recommended Sona Builds, like that MS sona.
A lot of people don’t understand that her W acts like an exhaust!
true
Sona being one of my main champs that carried me out of low elo, I loved this video, amazingly well done
I just realised I watched that for 26 minutes
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.
So many good points. Honestly, Sona's biggest strength is her insane ability to just bait. Doesnt matter the ELO, everyone will zero in to kill you, no matter the consequences.
Sona was one of the first champs I played. I like her not only in game but her lore too.
Man I Love Sona, I've been maining her for almost 8 years now (I miss full tank Sona😭), and she's the champion that made me enjoy playing support.
As a fellow completely self taught Sona player, I'm glad I already use almost every tip and strategy here in my games (baiting ad assassins with Frozen Heart is funny af)
It's kinda sad that this is the first in-depth video about her I've ever stumbled upon, 10/10 content tho, would recommend
League is ultimately a team game. And Sona absolutely excels in team fights.
bro is building helia and has the confidence to make a 27 minute video icba
My first main. Still love her even though i've done long road to my current playstile and do not play sona. Though in 5th season she was of course way more powerfull
Btw, AP SONA is really fun thing. They do not expect to lose 2/3 of their face by q+power chord
very good guide, as an udyr main with absolutely 0 intent to ever touch this champ I found it quite useful
Sona's my most played character and its so cool seeing more people talking about her! I'm very similar to you that I played fps games a whole bunch with a focus on damage but came to league and fell in love with support. Great video!
Edit:wtf you have 800 subs lmao i thought this was from some big channel id never seen before
for a guy with 3k subs.
The video quality is amazing and i really think that you deserve more attention.
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im watching the full video knowing very well that i will never play sona
Some people prefer simpler non flashy champions, not everything has to be reworked into a soul sucking skillshot. There are other mechanics that adhere to casual but masterful playstyles that let fellow summoners enjoy thier in game experience :)
“I’ve been playing Sona for 6 years”
I’m sorry for your loss
Sona feels... blah... and meh..but I'll check out good information with a mix of cuss words and love.
As another tf2 fan who spent years playing Sona I feel seen
I've only recently started playing LoL and have been e enjoying Sona, this video is very useful, thanks! 😊
Ill be honest, i was NOT ready for how complex sona passive is lmao i had to pause and reread
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.
Incredible how in wild rift her passive just stuns people on top of the other buffs to the auto attack
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.
as a ex high diamond sona top main currently masters, sona is not a low impact enchanter but rather is only that until you start getting some gold around level 11 or so then you become a high dps burst mage with your secondary role being a enchanter to help your team, you are the hard carry of your team, keeping your team alive while also half healthing any champ that comes close, as long as you stay alive in a team fight and play it well you will win it, also why build support when you can build damage and carry instead, its more fun that way.
The thing about Sona, people underestimate her power and nothing is more satisfying than invisibly carrying the game.
Nobody knows how to play sona fr, i will go in more depth in my own video on stuff he didnt mention in other channel. Thank you for the inspiration and clearing up the confusion