Sona vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Sona
based on 303 Sona vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Skarner Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Sona Items
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Skarner
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 Skarner
Skarner can't harm you very much outside of short range, so stay away from him!
Skarner is especially dangerous when inside Crystal Spire zones his team controls. Try to capture them ahead of time if a fight may break out around them.
Skarner's Move Speed is increased as long as his shield, Crystalline Exoskeleton, persists. Attack him to lower his speed.
Sona vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Sona in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Sona vs. Skarner counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Skarner. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Sona often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Skarner. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Skarner
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Sona or Skarner?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sona usually loses when trying to fight Skarner, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a bad counter to Skarner.
While Sona does have a lower win rate compared to Skarner, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Sona into Skarner.
Additionally, Sona has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Sona is a somewhat poor counter for Skarner. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Sona against Skarner.
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How We Calculated Our Sona vs Skarner Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona to counter Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Skarner. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Sona versus Skarner build consist of Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Skarner than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 48.2% battling Skarner with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Skarner as Sona, Sona players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Sona vs Skarner matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Skarner as Sona are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.