Sona vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Sona
based on 5,304 Sona vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Akali
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Sona vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Sona in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some critical Sona against Akali matchup stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Akali. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Akali
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Who is Better, Sona or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when playing against Akali, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a good counter for Akali.
While Sona does have a higher win rate than Akali, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Sona into Akali.
Moreover, Sona has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sona vs Akali matchups, Sona is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Sona is a decent counter for Akali. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sona to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona on average gets a lot less CS as Akali. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Sona versus Akali build include Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Akali than with many other common builds. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 51.3% when countering Akali with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Akali as Sona, Sona players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Revitalize, and Conditioning runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Sona vs Akali matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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