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.
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
The Sona Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Amumu helps Sona perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona plays on the same team as Amumu, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Amumu provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Amumu.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Amumu on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Amumu does a decent job of protecting Sona in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Sona that will always be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Amumu is a pretty good ally for Sona. By being on the same team as Sona, he raises their win rate by 1.9% to 52.3%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Sona and Amumu that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Amumu has a lower difficulty than Sona. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Amumu teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Sona players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Sona and Amumu together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to pair well with Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Sona and Amumu synergy build consist of Staff of Flowing Water, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Amumu than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 52.3% when playing alongside Amumu with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cut Down, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.3% win rate overall.
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