{"id":19225,"date":"2021-07-10T12:39:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T12:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/sona-to-receive-major-changes-in-league-of-legends-11-16-patch"},"modified":"2024-07-19T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T13:25:17","slug":"sona-to-receive-major-changes-in-league-of-legends-11-16-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\/sona-to-receive-major-changes-in-league-of-legends-11-16-patch","title":{"rendered":"Sona to receive major changes in League of Legends 11.16  patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riot Games developer, Captain Gameplay, has <a href=\"https:\/\/na.leagueoflegends.com\/en-us\/news\/dev\/quick-gameplay-thoughts-7-9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shared new information<\/a> about the changes coming for Sona, Maven of the Strings, as she, League of Legends&rsquo; support champion, is about to receive a major rework.<\/p>\n<p>According to the game developers, the modifications made for Sona in the past years allowed the hero to stray away from the bottom lane, which isn&rsquo;t exactly what they wanted while making the changes. Therefore, last year conversions, such as adding mana refund, were made to bring Sona back to the support role.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-figure\" contenteditable=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" contenteditable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/AOa7y44EvNiD22Z3HyMM7r3OUUJ22ALJkRKq6fziEcU\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzMi9MZWFndWVfb2ZfTGVnZW5kcy9Tb25hX2NoYW5nZXMvU29uYV9DaGFuZ2VzX0NvbWluZ19pbl9MZWFndWVfb2ZfTGVnZW5kc18xMS4xNC5qcGc\" alt=\"Sona changes coming to LOL 11.14 Patch\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption contenteditable=\"false\">Sona, Maven of the Strings (Picture: Riot Games)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now Riot is revisiting the champion once again and is planning to give him a new mechanic, which is supposed to replace the mana refund aspect. In the near future, when Sona will damage an enemy with her Q &#8211; Hymn of Valor or heals an ally with W &#8211; Aria of Perseverance, she will gain a stack of Accelerando.<\/p>\n<p>Accelerando will grant her ability haste for her basic skills. Hitting someone with Q will grant two stacks, and W will be able to give her up to 5 stacks if it heals or blocks damage on all four friendly champions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\/league-of-legends-akshan-the-rogue-sentinel-abilities-how-to-play-and-more\">League of Legends Akshan, the Rogue Sentinel: Abilities, how to play, and more<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides giving her ability haste, when Sona reaches the cap for Accelerando, she will be refunded a bit of her ultimate ability, Crescendo, cooldown. The goal of those changes is to inspire a more aggressive playstyle on the champion. Sona rework is planned to hit the official LoL servers in patch 11.16, which is scheduled to arrive on 18th August.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Don&rsquo;t forget to check out&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\"><em>our League of Legends dedicated section<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;for more news, guides, updates, and esports coverage.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riot Games developer, Captain Gameplay, has shared new information about the changes coming for Sona, Maven of the Strings, as she, League of Legends&rsquo; support&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3356,"featured_media":19226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-of-legends","genre-moba","content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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