Sona vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Sona
based on 991 Sona vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Kennen
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 Kennen
Consider playing a bit more cautiously around Kennen when you have a Mark of the Storm debuff. If he hits you with 3 Marks of the Storm, you will get stunned.
Kennen is flimsy by nature - turn and attack him if he gets careless with Lightning Rush.
Sona vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Sona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some valuable Sona versus Kennen counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kennen. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Kennen
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Who is Better, Sona or Kennen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when playing against Kennen, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a good counter for Kennen.
While Sona does have a higher winrate compared to Kennen, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Sona into Kennen.
Moreover, Sona has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kennen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Kennen matchups, Sona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Sona is an above average counter to Kennen. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Sona against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to counter Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona most often gets a lot less CS compared to Kennen. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Sona versus Kennen build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Sona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Kennen than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 52.2% when playing against Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Kennen as Sona, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Sona vs Kennen battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kennen as Sona are shown for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.