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.
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
The Sona Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Heimerdinger. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Heimerdinger helps Sona perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona is paired with Heimerdinger, she observes a small increase in her total damage dealt. This change may signal that Heimerdinger supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Heimerdinger.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Heimerdinger does a poor job of covering Sona during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Sona that will always be her ideal ally. Yet, Heimerdinger is a very typical teammate for Sona. By being on the same team as Sona, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 49.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Sona and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means Sona players must be very careful when enlisting Heimerdinger comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Sona players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Sona and Heimerdinger together, you may not be giving your other teammates much AD. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Heimerdinger ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to work well with Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Sona and Heimerdinger synergy build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Echoes of Helia. When Sona incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 49.6% helping carry Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Sona players 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 combinations we have analyed for Sona and Heimerdinger pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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