Riven with Sona
How to Synergize Riven and Sona
based on 2,883 Riven with Sona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Sona Synergy Summary
Best Riven vs Sona Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Riven Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Riven and Sona
Tips for Playing as Riven with Sona
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Riven in LoL
The Riven 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, Riven sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sona helps Riven perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Sona, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Sona does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Sona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Sona. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Sona.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Sona on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Sona does a decent job of protecting Riven during teamfights.
Synergies between Riven and Sona
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Riven better when played alongside Sona?
There is no top companion for Riven that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Sona is a pretty good ally for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, she improves their win rate by 1.9% to 52.0%. This proves that there is pretty good synergy between Riven and Sona that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Sona has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Sona allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Riven players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Combined, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Riven and Sona together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much cover. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Sona ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Riven
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Riven Players
How We Calculated Our Riven Sona Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to work well with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Riven and Sona synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Sona than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 52.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Sona with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Sona with Riven are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.