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.
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
The Sona Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, 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 Azir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Azir helps Sona perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona tries to synergize with Azir, she sees a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Azir does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Azir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Azir. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Azir.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Azir on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Azir does a decent job of protecting Sona during teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Sona that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. Yet, Azir is a very typical teammate for Sona. By locking into the same side as Sona, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 50.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Sona and Azir that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Azir has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means you should be careful when arranging Azir allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Sona players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Sona and Azir together, you will not be granting your other allies very much engage potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Azir ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to pair well with Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Sona and Azir synergy build consist of Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Azir than with most other common builds. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 50.3% when playing alongside Azir with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cut Down, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Sona and Azir pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.3% win rate overall.
If you want to see Sona and Azir collaboration tips and builds for a a distinct skill level, feel free to choose one from the selection menu shown above. At first, the statistics and guides displayed are calculated using every game completed with both champs.