Sona vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Sona
based on 2,187 Sona vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Aphelios
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 Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Sona vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Sona in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several influential Sona versus Aphelios matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Aphelios. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Sona often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Sona or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sona usually wins when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Sona does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sona into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Sona has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Aphelios matchups, Sona is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Sona is a decent counter to Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Sona against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Aphelios. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Sona versus Aphelios build include Celestial Opposition, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Aphelios than with most other common item sets. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 51.9% battling Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Aphelios as Sona, Sona players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Sona vs Aphelios face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.9% winrate overall.
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