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.
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
The Sona Galio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Galio, 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 Galio. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Galio helps Sona perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona is an ally to Galio, she gets a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Galio does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Galio on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Galio. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Galio.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Galio on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Galio does a decent job of protecting Sona in team fights.
There is no top companion for Sona that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, overall, Galio is a good companion for Sona. By playing on the same team as Sona, he raises their win rate by 1.2% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Sona and Galio that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Galio has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means you must be careful when enlisting Galio allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Sona players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by bringing Sona and Galio together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much attack damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Galio teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Sona in order to pair well with Galio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Sona and Galio synergy build consist of Staff of Flowing Water, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Galio than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when playing alongside Galio with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take 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 picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
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