Illaoi with Sona
How to Synergize Illaoi and Sona
based on 1,715 Illaoi with Sona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Sona Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Sona
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Sona
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Advice to Understand How Sona Will Play
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.
Illaoi Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sona helps Illaoi perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi is an ally to Sona, she observes a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This could demonstrate that Sona doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Sona.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Sona on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Sona does a decent job of covering Illaoi in teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Sona
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Sona?
There is no ideal ally for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Sona is a not very good ally for Illaoi. By locking into the same side as Illaoi, she drops their win rate by -1.8% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Illaoi and Sona that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players don't need to be cautious when arranging Sona comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Illaoi and Sona together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Sona ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to pair well with Sona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Illaoi and Sona synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Hullbreaker, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Sona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Sona with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
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