Sona vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Sona
based on 3,767 Sona vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Sona vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Sona in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some influential Sona against Varus counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Varus. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Sona usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Varus. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Varus
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Who is Better, Sona or Varus?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when facing off against Varus, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes a good counter for Varus.
While Sona does have a higher winrate compared to Varus, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Sona into Varus.
Additionally, Sona also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Varus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Varus matchups, Sona is the better champ with a higher 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 Varus. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Sona against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to counter Varus during both the early game 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona most often accumulates a lot less CS as Varus. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Sona versus Varus build consist of Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Echoes of Helia. When Sona included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Varus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Varus with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Varus 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. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Sona vs Varus matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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