Sona with Aphelios
How to Synergize Sona and Aphelios
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Sona Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Sona with Aphelios
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 Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Sona Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Sona in LoL
The Sona Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aphelios helps Sona perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona plays on the same team as Aphelios, she observes a little decrease in her full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Aphelios does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Aphelios 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 Aphelios.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Aphelios on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Sona in team fights.
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Is Sona better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no perfect synergy for Sona that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, Aphelios is a below average companion for Sona. By locking into the same side as Sona, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 48.9%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Sona and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Aphelios teammates to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by aligning Sona and Aphelios together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of tankyness. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, 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.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona to synergize with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Sona and Aphelios synergy build include Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Echoes of Helia. When Sona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when playing alongside Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you 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 players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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