2013-10-16, 03:28 PM
At the risk of making my previous post longer/sounding like a silver player who thinks he'd godlike, I omitted all the details of my actual gameplay. In short, I only started playing Sona because I figured that every enemy bot lane in Silver relied on getting Sona to withstand (I don't want to sound cocky here but whatever) how good my duo partner and I are. I have probably around 300+ games played as Lulu alone (I want to say 75% of my games are games as support and I can say I am pretty well off with most of them, the "support lineup" I gave in my previous post was just my "most played" list (100+ games at least)), but I still opted for Sona because we realized that Silver players could only beat us if they used both her and Caitlyn in the same lane, so we stole that every game and no matter what, we come out of lane with at least 5 kills. When I say come out of lane I mean, by 8 minutes the enemy tower is gone, my duo is up at least three+ kills and 30+ CS on the enemy ADC, and I am already roaming around warding to set up for getting objectives in other lanes. On the off chance that that did not happen in a particular game it was because the enemy jungler and mid would roam bottom, and every time that happens we usually come out of it with a kill or two and a middle turret. It would only take a walk back to bot lane afterwards and another three minutes or so to continue taking the turret, get dragon, hope top lane is not stuck too far behind for whatever reason, get their turret, roam mid, get tier 2, and eventually win.
As for me just recently picking up Sona: I have always known how strong of a champion she is, but honestly did not want to ever play her because of how godawful boring she is to play (it's not like it's "difficult" to pick her up anyway). I used to want to have some fun playing more satisfying, higher-skill-requiring supports in ranked, but I now see no reason for me to play any other of the multitude of supports I can play but Sona in Silver. She is just too rewarding for being so low-risk of a pick, that doubles as denying her from the enemy team.
I do understand lane matchups well enough that, under the assumption that the enemy team is actually competent enough to play the champions well, accommodations can be made; from my experience, it's just not necessary in Silver. The most coordinated I've seen so far from an enemy bot lane is an Ashe/Zyra who would attempt to chain CC, but instead blow both of their ultimates at the least beneficial time (i.e. point blank ashe arrow whose stun duration existed only during the Stranglethorns knockup time); I've yet to see a competent Blitzcrank or a Thresh who would actually know when an engage with Q would actually result in a kill instead of rushing in to give us a double kill.
Sorry if it sounded like I was refuting your post. Basically I just wanted to say that I was really salty about teammates not knowing when to capitalize on my plays on other supports (i.e. tanks running away when I would Wild Growth them, my own team running away from Stranglethorns, "what does nami do"). But when they hear that Crescendo go off on four people they know what to do, apparently. Meh.
As for me just recently picking up Sona: I have always known how strong of a champion she is, but honestly did not want to ever play her because of how godawful boring she is to play (it's not like it's "difficult" to pick her up anyway). I used to want to have some fun playing more satisfying, higher-skill-requiring supports in ranked, but I now see no reason for me to play any other of the multitude of supports I can play but Sona in Silver. She is just too rewarding for being so low-risk of a pick, that doubles as denying her from the enemy team.
I do understand lane matchups well enough that, under the assumption that the enemy team is actually competent enough to play the champions well, accommodations can be made; from my experience, it's just not necessary in Silver. The most coordinated I've seen so far from an enemy bot lane is an Ashe/Zyra who would attempt to chain CC, but instead blow both of their ultimates at the least beneficial time (i.e. point blank ashe arrow whose stun duration existed only during the Stranglethorns knockup time); I've yet to see a competent Blitzcrank or a Thresh who would actually know when an engage with Q would actually result in a kill instead of rushing in to give us a double kill.
Sorry if it sounded like I was refuting your post. Basically I just wanted to say that I was really salty about teammates not knowing when to capitalize on my plays on other supports (i.e. tanks running away when I would Wild Growth them, my own team running away from Stranglethorns, "what does nami do"). But when they hear that Crescendo go off on four people they know what to do, apparently. Meh.