Sona vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Sona
based on 733 Sona vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
Bio-Arcane Barrage allows Kog'Maw to kill Baron Nashor extremely early. It can be valuable to ward Nashor when Kog'Maw completes his Blade of the Ruined King.
Sona vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Sona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several valuable Sona vs. Kog'Maw counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kog'Maw. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Sona typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kog'Maw. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Sona or Kog'Maw?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when trying to fight Kog'Maw, with a 54.2% win rate. Thus, Sona makes a great counter to Kog'Maw.
While Sona does have a much higher winrate than Kog'Maw, when facing one another, Sona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Sona into Kog'Maw.
Furthermore, Sona also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sona vs Kog'Maw matchups, Sona is the better champion with a noticably 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 great counter to Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Sona against Kog'Maw.
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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 Kog'Maw during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona often picks up a lot less CS relative to Kog'Maw. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Sona versus Kog'Maw build consist of Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better versus Kog'Maw than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 54.2% when countering Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Kog'Maw as Sona, you should take 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 Kog'Maw matchups, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kog'Maw as Sona are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.