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.
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
The stats shown on this page show some significant Sona vs. Morgana matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Morgana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Morgana..
Sona normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Morgana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sona usually fairs equally well when taking on Morgana, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Sona makes an ok counter to Morgana.
While Sona does have a higher win rate compared to Morgana, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Sona into Morgana.
Furthermore, Sona also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Morgana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sona vs Morgana matchups, Sona is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Sona is a decent counter to Morgana. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Morgana.
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona to counter Morgana 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 stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona on average racks up less CS compared to Morgana. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Sona versus Morgana build include Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Morgana than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when playing against Morgana with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Morgana as Sona, Sona players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Revitalize, and Conditioning runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Sona vs Morgana matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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