Syndra vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Syndra
based on 2,050 Syndra vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Sona
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
Advice to Win Against Sona
Spread out when you see Sona so she can't make your entire team dance.
Kill Sona first, as she will heal up her team if left alone for too long.
Syndra vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Syndra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some significant Syndra vs. Sona counter stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Sona. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Syndra often has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Sona. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Syndra and Sona
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Who is Better, Syndra or Sona?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Syndra usually fairs equally well when playing against Sona, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Syndra makes an ok counter for Sona.
While Syndra does have a lower win rate than Sona, when they face off with one another, Syndra also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Syndra into Sonaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Syndra has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Syndra is a somewhat poor counter for Sona. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Syndra against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Syndra to counter Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra usually picks up much more CS as Sona. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Syndra versus Sona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Sona than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Syndra boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when playing against Sona with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Sona as Syndra, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Syndra vs Sona counter picks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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