I know you say some of your videos aren’t doing as well as you’d like, I’ve watched each guide you’ve put out so far and I just wanna let you know that I truly appreciate all of them! I’m a nurse and don’t have a lot of time to binge long league videos and the length you put out has really helped me gain knowledge and get much better in a short amount of time! Started out bronze 4 and now in silver 1 in just 2 weeks. So thank you for being so helpful and taking the time to make these videos handsome! ❣️
I like learning about other ways people play sona! I’m a sona otp and I usually prefer playing really aggressive with dark harvest runes and ap items. My most passive is going aery rushing first item helia and figuring out whether or not to switch over to ap or continue healing :) appreciate the sona guide!
i like to run scorch sometimes if i want to try and win lane! i like to run it with presence of mind and cut down - it just allows me to have more lane pressure. But overall the better choice would be gathering storm as winning lane on Sona is hard to do - sometimes I just wanna try stomp :)
i have thought for a while that it is bad item and i forgot to mention it in my guide because of this. however echoes did just get a decent buff so i will be looking at it again soon! i think the healing output might be good for it
I don't build tear, I'd rather have more regen. I mostly recall with 500-850+ for dual fairy charms and boots. Then I aim for ardent and flowing water later on the game.
I like learning about other ways people play sona! I’m a sona otp and I usually prefer playing really aggressive with dark harvest runes and ap items. My most passive is going aery rushing first item helia and figuring out whether or not to switch over to ap or continue healing :) appreciate the sona guide!
@@shiique usually when I go support runes, I would get the glass into sheen. Then based off of laning phase I’ll consider whether to build lich or helia first. Although that build the only support item I’d have is helia and as soon as I get those two items, I rush storm surge into other ap items
thanks to your guide i was able to otp sona all the way to challenger! now when i'm out on the town all the women swoon when i mention i'm a challenger sona otp and i'm swamped in potential brides! i even mentioned it to my boss and he promoted me straight to CEO of the company! this gave me the money i needed to finally buy my own house, thank you so much shiique!
i've had a lot of success rushing frozen heart first item on sona, but taking presence of mind and cutdown for the lack of tear cope. i wouldn't rush it if i'm not laning against ad / ad jungler though. abusing the gold cost of frozen heart and the stats it provides really helps sona's early game when im tussling
fair enough, thats an interesting strat. i've personally never done that but i can imagine it to be pretty good against full-AD comps as u can counter them from the outset of the game
thx for this guide! i just started playing today and without knowing anything about any of the characters, except that i wanted to play moslty passive support, i went on the "support" tab and chose one i thought was pretty haha, i picked sona (which i really enjoyed) and then someone recommened lux as my first free champion and i hated her gameplay 😭 i couldnt heal or protect anyone nor could i aim as player are constantly scurrying around the map and i would miss my allies and enemies 💀 so i switched back to sona knowing i could pull more use out of her even tho she is weaker on paper, this will def help me have some guidance in how to make her better and not look like a useless clueless noob to my peers lol
aww this was so sweet to read!! i wish you good luck on your league journey! i think sona is definitely a good champion to pick up when you are new to the game as she is easy to learn!!
it can be good on her if you want to play hyper aggressive and build damage - but bloodsong has received continuous nerfs so its definitely not as strong as on release
yeah for sure! i think she's pretty strong right now since she uses moonstone so amazingly and moonstone is the strongest enchanter item in my opinion rn
Loved the guide, sometimes I like to build RoA into enchanter items and seraphs. Situationally I also like to go for spirit visage or frozen heart. The build is not optimal, but it’s more forgiving on bad positioning. Anyway, back to the guide. I think it’s really well structured, you cover the most important points without painfully extending the video. Much appreciated. I’m sure if you’ll keep it up success will find you :)
thank you so much for leaving a comment! yeah there were definitely a few extra items i could have added, but i didn't want to make the video too long!! and thank you so much for your comment about success, that really means a lot :)
naut is free matchup btw, you just bait his hook into minion and do e-powerchord and he is scaeed of me xD yeah im from e2, pyke too im just overscaling him at 20 min xD or 2nd item
It's wild to think that Sona is one of my favorite champs and I didn't know that W Power chord reduces the targets damage dealt! I thought it reduced their healing. I already knew how to play Sona (although not as good as I thought LOL) but I enjoyed your rune/item choices depending on how the game is going and who your opponents are. Smolder is another good scaling partner too!
yes! smolder seems to be a pretty good laning partner since he aims to scale for the late game. I'm glad you learned something from this video :3 thank you so much for watching?
My 2 cents as a diamond Sona otp DREAM MAKER IS A FAKE ITEM. Looking at the stats dream maker will almost ALWAYS have the highest numbers of any support item, almost 2x as much, but this is because the numbers are FAKE. The damage counts for when your ADC hits ANYTHING, including minions/jungle camps and ?towers? (havent seen that one but I assume it does too) You can go 2 full minutes without fighting, just farming in neutral with your adc, and the damage done on your item will go up by ~750 because he's pumping the 90 dmg into minions with 0 resists. And the damage blocked is also so fake on a shielding champion, on Soraka that 140 will be applied directly to your ADC's HP bar (and aery shield) so it actually translates to value, but on a shielding champion the shield usually has to be 100% popped to make that damage actually mean anything. If you shield someone for 200 and the enemy hits your adc for 200, the shield is gone. If you shield someone for 200 with shitmaker and they hit for 200, the shield will be left at 140 in which case it has the CHANCE to actually matter (the shield lasts 1.5 seconds remember, so it won't in MANY cases) yet the item proudly declared that it blocked 140 damage, even though at the end of the shield your ADC's HP bar will be the EXACT same with or without. Claims 140 when it blocked ZERO. I'm not claiming this happens EVERY time the item is used, but these scenarios do happen and it inflates the item's perceived value by a lot. It's still the best item in many scenarios, just because it's the ONLY item that provides any kind of survivability for people other than you, so take it when *one* of your teammates is hypercarrying and your only job is to pump stats into this one guy. When choosing summoners on any enchanter Heal should be the default as it works with revitalize, heal and shield power, and applies item/rune effects like aery, moonstone, ardent, staff, etc. while your ADC has zero synergy with the summ beyond the ms. It's worth noting that Sona's passive devalues ability haste as you stack it, as it gives you 60 that doesn't stack separately from normal ability haste, and all of your items have it except ardent. As such swifties are the higher WR and higher impact option compared to ionian, especially after ionian was nerfed. However, I've also ghosted quite a few grandmaster Sona players in NA and EUW who don't even buy T1 boots until they've completed their first item (often seraph's embrace), as the gold is hard to come by and Sona's E allows her to rotate around the map at decent speeds without boots, leaving their only benefit to be in-combat ms (still valuable in many games but not necessary). Getting archangel's 900 gold early is way more impactful for objective fights than T2 boots ever will be. I've watched multiple high elo Sona's wait for gold in base to buy dark seal over t1 boots, so you should definitely consider trying out the bare-toes playstyle. Even in hook lanes, the chance that early boots make the difference in dodging a hook pales in comparison to having nearly unlimited mana with tear + lost chapter 900g earlier and better stats for the ensuing fight. You do have to position better though, boots just make Sona an easier champion to play but reduce her output to match. Flat health is almost always taken on supports as you will be exploding nexus in 90% of your games between level 11 and 13 if you're behind/ahead, so level scaling runes are usually devalued and early power on Sona is so desirable. This is another reason I always go celerity over transcendence, level scaling is undesirable + Sona devalues ability haste + celerity gives 15 ms in your E that almost gives you T1 boots in it so you can use that ability to dodge important spells even better. Swifties + Celerity + Staff 10% + Ardent 8% is fun if you have the hands to make it count. Moonstone is often underwhelming as it's actually a single-target only item. It will increase the shield on only one of your players, and will chain the heal only once per ability cast. So that sick looking 45% is only on your *staggeringly huge* single-target sona shield, and you may be left wanting in the numbers department. This is why Moonstone is NOT a good first buy on Sona, it needs AP/ heal and shield power to actually have a meaningful impact, but eventually is a pretty good item to go if your team doesn't make good use of ardent and redemption won't have as good of value. Do not discount Sona's AP ratios. If you are fighting in the jungle or your ADC just doesnt waste the autoattack on a minion, your Q has a 120% AP ratio in the 2v2, 80% of it on a single target assuming good play. In a deathball teamfight that can go as high as a 180% AP ratio, as in 180% of your AP was translated to damage, it's just invisible as monkey brains see logarithmically and not linearly. Sona's W has a max potential of 155% AP ratio, but this is pretty fake as it's only for AOE scenarios like your team just got miss fortune ulted and all of the shields were popped.
I'm OTP Sona. I play her with Fleet. I feel mobility is way stronger and consistent on teamfights. Also is an amazing tool to go in, poke, and go out safely during laning phase. Zooming after using the passive is stronger than aery imho. Green and purple passives are the best.
Muchas gracias por la guía de Sona 🩷 Es mi main y es muy divertida de jugar. ¿También podrías hacer una guía de Lulu? Ella es otra reina de juego tardío y me gustaría aprenderla 😊
i just translated this to english, thank you so much for watching!! i have a lulu video that i did recently if you go to my 'Season 14 Content' Playlist then you'll find! I'm hopefully gonna release full length guides (like this one) for most of the enchanters!!
@@shiique Its a blast. But its also based around my understanding of how agressive she can be. Which, is not always a good thing. Defiantly something to learn though just to have as a back up strat for her.
I feel like your second rune page is better in most situations since Sona doesn't really need any extra help in the late game, but struggles in the early game where those runes would be the most helpful.
thanks to your guide i was able to otp sona all the way to challenger! now when i'm out on the town all the guys swoon when i mention i'm a challenger sona otp and i'm swamped in potential suitors! i even mentioned it to my boss and he promoted me straight to CEO of the company! this gave me the money i needed to finally buy my own house, thank you so much shiique!
I know you say some of your videos aren’t doing as well as you’d like, I’ve watched each guide you’ve put out so far and I just wanna let you know that I truly appreciate all of them! I’m a nurse and don’t have a lot of time to binge long league videos and the length you put out has really helped me gain knowledge and get much better in a short amount of time! Started out bronze 4 and now in silver 1 in just 2 weeks. So thank you for being so helpful and taking the time to make these videos handsome! ❣️
thank you so much for this kind message, it really means a lot. i'm glad you learned something form this video and thank you so much for supporting me
I like learning about other ways people play sona! I’m a sona otp and I usually prefer playing really aggressive with dark harvest runes and ap items. My most passive is going aery rushing first item helia and figuring out whether or not to switch over to ap or continue healing :) appreciate the sona guide!
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Feeling behind with this season's updates, this was a well needed refresher. Thank you for the guide!
thank you so much for watching james! i really appreciate it!
damn this gurl out here giving us detailed guides working the riftttt! you betta pop off
thanks for watching raalli, i hope u enjoyed it :3
I'm not super competitive about LoL but I do like to think i pilot a pretty decent Sona. Your advice will help ensure that's actually true someday XD.
aw nice man im glad i could help!! im sure youre amazing at sona ;)
question, you said go gathering storm but showed scorch and clips of you using scorch. which one do you prefer?
i like to run scorch sometimes if i want to try and win lane! i like to run it with presence of mind and cut down - it just allows me to have more lane pressure. But overall the better choice would be gathering storm as winning lane on Sona is hard to do - sometimes I just wanna try stomp :)
I'm otp sona
oh nice, thank you so much for watching!!
So when's the Morgana guide dropping? 👀
maybe when i play her for the first time 😍
why didnt u mention echoes of helia? what are your thoughts on it
i have thought for a while that it is bad item and i forgot to mention it in my guide because of this. however echoes did just get a decent buff so i will be looking at it again soon! i think the healing output might be good for it
Great guide, thank you.
I'm a Zyra main but Sona is my counter if the enemy picks Zyra, so to practice her this is very helpful!
thank you so much for watching!! i hope you found some of my tips useful :3
I don't build tear, I'd rather have more regen. I mostly recall with 500-850+ for dual fairy charms and boots. Then I aim for ardent and flowing water later on the game.
fair enough! i usually find i run out of mana without tear sadly, im a spammer haha
Could potentially go both.@@shiique
I like learning about other ways people play sona! I’m a sona otp and I usually prefer playing really aggressive with dark harvest runes and ap items. My most passive is going aery rushing first item helia and figuring out whether or not to switch over to ap or continue healing :) appreciate the sona guide!
nice thats cool! i found that echoes is really good if you're ahead too. do u build lich bane first?
@@shiique usually when I go support runes, I would get the glass into sheen. Then based off of laning phase I’ll consider whether to build lich or helia first. Although that build the only support item I’d have is helia and as soon as I get those two items, I rush storm surge into other ap items
thanks to your guide i was able to otp sona all the way to challenger! now when i'm out on the town all the women swoon when i mention i'm a challenger sona otp and i'm swamped in potential brides! i even mentioned it to my boss and he promoted me straight to CEO of the company! this gave me the money i needed to finally buy my own house, thank you so much shiique!
does this mean you can tier 3 sub to shiique now??
@@shiique 🐳
are u calling me a whale??@@aphrow
i've had a lot of success rushing frozen heart first item on sona, but taking presence of mind and cutdown for the lack of tear cope. i wouldn't rush it if i'm not laning against ad / ad jungler though. abusing the gold cost of frozen heart and the stats it provides really helps sona's early game when im tussling
fair enough, thats an interesting strat. i've personally never done that but i can imagine it to be pretty good against full-AD comps as u can counter them from the outset of the game
thx for this guide! i just started playing today and without knowing anything about any of the characters, except that i wanted to play moslty passive support, i went on the "support" tab and chose one i thought was pretty haha, i picked sona (which i really enjoyed) and then someone recommened lux as my first free champion and i hated her gameplay 😭 i couldnt heal or protect anyone nor could i aim as player are constantly scurrying around the map and i would miss my allies and enemies 💀 so i switched back to sona knowing i could pull more use out of her even tho she is weaker on paper, this will def help me have some guidance in how to make her better and not look like a useless clueless noob to my peers lol
aww this was so sweet to read!! i wish you good luck on your league journey! i think sona is definitely a good champion to pick up when you are new to the game as she is easy to learn!!
Is blood song still good on her?
it can be good on her if you want to play hyper aggressive and build damage - but bloodsong has received continuous nerfs so its definitely not as strong as on release
is sona just as strong in 14.4? :)
yeah for sure! i think she's pretty strong right now since she uses moonstone so amazingly and moonstone is the strongest enchanter item in my opinion rn
7:23 I too do not trust those around me
LOL, u when u get casted on the traitors
Loved the guide, sometimes I like to build RoA into enchanter items and seraphs. Situationally I also like to go for spirit visage or frozen heart. The build is not optimal, but it’s more forgiving on bad positioning.
Anyway, back to the guide. I think it’s really well structured, you cover the most important points without painfully extending the video. Much appreciated. I’m sure if you’ll keep it up success will find you :)
thank you so much for leaving a comment! yeah there were definitely a few extra items i could have added, but i didn't want to make the video too long!! and thank you so much for your comment about success, that really means a lot :)
nice video!!!
thank you so much for watching!!
naut is free matchup btw, you just bait his hook into minion and do e-powerchord and he is scaeed of me xD yeah im from e2, pyke too im just overscaling him at 20 min xD or 2nd item
when am i vs bc/tresh/pyke im going to win first 3 lvls and recall and roam untill laning fase is over
You are gorgeous.
haha ur too kind, i hope you enjoyed the video!
Really helpfull!
thanks so much for watching!
top 1 sona gamer!!
omg thank u!!!
Thank you so much Matt! This video was amazing and I learned a lot from it. 💗
awww thank you so much for watching!!! i'm so glad you enjoyed it!!!
It's wild to think that Sona is one of my favorite champs and I didn't know that W Power chord reduces the targets damage dealt! I thought it reduced their healing. I already knew how to play Sona (although not as good as I thought LOL) but I enjoyed your rune/item choices depending on how the game is going and who your opponents are. Smolder is another good scaling partner too!
yes! smolder seems to be a pretty good laning partner since he aims to scale for the late game. I'm glad you learned something from this video :3 thank you so much for watching?
im completely new to ur channel, so what elo do u play in?
Hi welcome!!! I ended masters last season, currently stuck high diamond trying to get back :)
@@shiiqueI feel the "currently stuck in diamond" part lmao
hahaha yeah my lp gains are just awful! i recently started climbing on another account and its a lot better, im d2 relatively quickly!@@junuka7362
Brilliant video and guide! Thank youuu
thank you so much for watching and for your kind words!
My 2 cents as a diamond Sona otp
DREAM MAKER IS A FAKE ITEM. Looking at the stats dream maker will almost ALWAYS have the highest numbers of any support item, almost 2x as much, but this is because the numbers are FAKE. The damage counts for when your ADC hits ANYTHING, including minions/jungle camps and ?towers? (havent seen that one but I assume it does too) You can go 2 full minutes without fighting, just farming in neutral with your adc, and the damage done on your item will go up by ~750 because he's pumping the 90 dmg into minions with 0 resists. And the damage blocked is also so fake on a shielding champion, on Soraka that 140 will be applied directly to your ADC's HP bar (and aery shield) so it actually translates to value, but on a shielding champion the shield usually has to be 100% popped to make that damage actually mean anything. If you shield someone for 200 and the enemy hits your adc for 200, the shield is gone. If you shield someone for 200 with shitmaker and they hit for 200, the shield will be left at 140 in which case it has the CHANCE to actually matter (the shield lasts 1.5 seconds remember, so it won't in MANY cases) yet the item proudly declared that it blocked 140 damage, even though at the end of the shield your ADC's HP bar will be the EXACT same with or without. Claims 140 when it blocked ZERO. I'm not claiming this happens EVERY time the item is used, but these scenarios do happen and it inflates the item's perceived value by a lot. It's still the best item in many scenarios, just because it's the ONLY item that provides any kind of survivability for people other than you, so take it when *one* of your teammates is hypercarrying and your only job is to pump stats into this one guy.
When choosing summoners on any enchanter Heal should be the default as it works with revitalize, heal and shield power, and applies item/rune effects like aery, moonstone, ardent, staff, etc. while your ADC has zero synergy with the summ beyond the ms.
It's worth noting that Sona's passive devalues ability haste as you stack it, as it gives you 60 that doesn't stack separately from normal ability haste, and all of your items have it except ardent. As such swifties are the higher WR and higher impact option compared to ionian, especially after ionian was nerfed.
However, I've also ghosted quite a few grandmaster Sona players in NA and EUW who don't even buy T1 boots until they've completed their first item (often seraph's embrace), as the gold is hard to come by and Sona's E allows her to rotate around the map at decent speeds without boots, leaving their only benefit to be in-combat ms (still valuable in many games but not necessary). Getting archangel's 900 gold early is way more impactful for objective fights than T2 boots ever will be. I've watched multiple high elo Sona's wait for gold in base to buy dark seal over t1 boots, so you should definitely consider trying out the bare-toes playstyle. Even in hook lanes, the chance that early boots make the difference in dodging a hook pales in comparison to having nearly unlimited mana with tear + lost chapter 900g earlier and better stats for the ensuing fight. You do have to position better though, boots just make Sona an easier champion to play but reduce her output to match.
Flat health is almost always taken on supports as you will be exploding nexus in 90% of your games between level 11 and 13 if you're behind/ahead, so level scaling runes are usually devalued and early power on Sona is so desirable. This is another reason I always go celerity over transcendence, level scaling is undesirable + Sona devalues ability haste + celerity gives 15 ms in your E that almost gives you T1 boots in it so you can use that ability to dodge important spells even better. Swifties + Celerity + Staff 10% + Ardent 8% is fun if you have the hands to make it count.
Moonstone is often underwhelming as it's actually a single-target only item. It will increase the shield on only one of your players, and will chain the heal only once per ability cast. So that sick looking 45% is only on your *staggeringly huge* single-target sona shield, and you may be left wanting in the numbers department. This is why Moonstone is NOT a good first buy on Sona, it needs AP/ heal and shield power to actually have a meaningful impact, but eventually is a pretty good item to go if your team doesn't make good use of ardent and redemption won't have as good of value.
Do not discount Sona's AP ratios. If you are fighting in the jungle or your ADC just doesnt waste the autoattack on a minion, your Q has a 120% AP ratio in the 2v2, 80% of it on a single target assuming good play. In a deathball teamfight that can go as high as a 180% AP ratio, as in 180% of your AP was translated to damage, it's just invisible as monkey brains see logarithmically and not linearly. Sona's W has a max potential of 155% AP ratio, but this is pretty fake as it's only for AOE scenarios like your team just got miss fortune ulted and all of the shields were popped.
Interesting observations~!
I'm OTP Sona. I play her with Fleet. I feel mobility is way stronger and consistent on teamfights. Also is an amazing tool to go in, poke, and go out safely during laning phase. Zooming after using the passive is stronger than aery imho. Green and purple passives are the best.
interesting! i've never played fleet on her
I will be the first to admit I’m guilty of the W spam, but thanks to ur helpful guide I might be able to do heaps better now 😍
thanks so much for watching jesse!
great guide bro. very very articulate.
thanks so much for watching, i'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Muchas gracias por la guía de Sona 🩷 Es mi main y es muy divertida de jugar. ¿También podrías hacer una guía de Lulu? Ella es otra reina de juego tardío y me gustaría aprenderla 😊
i just translated this to english, thank you so much for watching!! i have a lulu video that i did recently if you go to my 'Season 14 Content' Playlist then you'll find!
I'm hopefully gonna release full length guides (like this one) for most of the enchanters!!
As a resident front line Sona, RoA and Fimble with Spirit is hilarious. No one can kill you. But you can kill them.
that sounds really cool hahah, i need to try that out
@@shiique Its a blast. But its also based around my understanding of how agressive she can be. Which, is not always a good thing. Defiantly something to learn though just to have as a back up strat for her.
Powering on my PC to play Sona right tf NOW!
hahahah shes so fun!
this was such a well thought out, thorough, incredibly informative, and really well edited video! you can really see the love you have for Sona
thank you so much for watching and for leaving such a heart-warming comment 🥲
Completely new to the game, looking to check out support role.
This video seems solid
And the music is also chill 👌
thanks so much! league is definitely a bit overwhelming at the start, its all about learning what all the champs do!
Pfffft this dude builds boots
well yes!
thanks for this video, im otp sona :D
thanks so much for watching!!
I love your video as a Sona main! Great explanation
yhank you so much! i tried super hard on this video so that means a lot
I feel like your second rune page is better in most situations since Sona doesn't really need any extra help in the late game, but struggles in the early game where those runes would be the most helpful.
Great video as always!
thank you so much fusion!
What a wonderful video ❤❤❤❤
i'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks so much for watching!!
Amazing guide! Ty 👍
thank you so much for watching!!! 😍
Keep doing this for other supports, nearly all items got reworked and I'm relearning what they do through this series!
what champ should i do next?
@@shiique I play mostly mages and enchanters, so I would say maybe a full Morgana, Soraka or Nami guide with different alternative builds/runes
ooooh interesting ; )@@godanri
thanks to your guide i was able to otp sona all the way to challenger! now when i'm out on the town all the guys swoon when i mention i'm a challenger sona otp and i'm swamped in potential suitors! i even mentioned it to my boss and he promoted me straight to CEO of the company! this gave me the money i needed to finally buy my own house, thank you so much shiique!
that means you can tier 3 sub at twitch.tv/shiique!! :3