Sonya is a sexy barbarian from the Diablo universe. I love to play her cause of her unlimited ressource and sustain, her high skill cap and her all in potential. She is fun to play since you need to consider how you approach every hero you face, you can't just use same rotation and playstyle all the time. Sonya is not the most tanky hero and not the one with the highest damage output. She is more like an off-tank hero with medium damage. The barbarian is able to constantly do damage, heal and move, which makes her very dynamic to play. With the build introduced in this guide your WW skill is your bread and butter. You need to hit heroes or minions as you WW and preferable for the full duration of the skill. Time your ww well, cause in the case you miss it or it gets interrupted you will be in trouble and often die. If you time it well you can tank the whole enemy team, do okay damage and stay alive!
Let me explain why I've chosen this build and these talents. First I'll go through each tier, then explain how rotation and build works in praxis.
Tier 1 - Shot of fury: I pick this talent since my build works best if I'm able to WW every time it is off CD. More fury also allows me to use selfheal more often.
Tier 2 - Boon of the Ancients: I pick this talent since a lower CD on my spear gives me: a) consistenly more fury as I can use Q much more frequent, 2) a chance to chase and catch people much easier, 3) more harassment in lane. The extra fury over time is the main reason behind this pick.
Tier 3 - Ferocious Healing: This skill fits perfect in a build where you generate a huge amount of fury all the time. This extra heal will often save you and sometimes win you duels. Heal is not high, but the CD on the skill is also very low, in that perspective it is worth picking.
Tier 4 - Wrath of the Berserker: You wanna pick this ult since it counters some of the cc people will try and stop you with and also since it can be kept up for a very long time on a Sonya with a huge amount of fury gain.
Tier 5 - Life Funnel: This improvement on WW is what makes this build so sexy. It removes some cc's and gives you extra heal, AMAZING! Now you can go tf as a real barbarian, in the middle of ALL the enemies! With this improvement people will have a hard time killing you in a tf or in a duel.
Tier 6 - Enduring Whirlwind: So you decided you love using WW and that you are unkillable while it is up. So why not prolong the fun by 50 %! This addition allows you to get a smoother skill rotation, to use selfheal more often and more or less always have Q off CD when your WW is on CD. Now you will definitely never end up in a situation where you lack fury.
Tier 7 - Ignore pain: So let's say you actually do end up in a bad situation in a tf and might die. Well in that case you just use this ability and get out or stay alive and kill your enemies.
In lane you should try to be as aggressive as possible. main rotation will be Q-E-W. When you get your R (WotB) you should pop that just before you engage. Don't be scared to take some hits as you go in. If you use WW on a minion wave after trading in lane your health should be fine again. As Sonya you are a good ganker, so consider roaming a lot.
In TF wanna be the one engaging. Make sure your team is with your before you engage, else you'll just get obliterated. With a healer supporting you, you are amazing in a 5v5 though. You'll be able to do nasty AoE damage and stay alive throughout the fight. Only a well placed CC will ruin your fun! Make sure you stay in the middle of things and fight as many enemies as possible. If you instead start chasing someone and get kited you die much faster, since your WW sustain will be much lower or gone and at the same time your team will miss you as tank which may result in a lost TF. So engage and stay in the middle of all the fun.
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