Sona with Nami
How to Synergize Sona and Nami
based on 38 Sona with Nami pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Nami Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Nami
Tips for Playing as Sona with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Sona Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Sona in LoL
The Sona Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nami helps Sona perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona tries to synergize with Nami, she sees a very large increase in her complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Nami provides protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Nami on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nami.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Nami on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Nami does a poor job of protecting Sona during team fights.
Synergies between Sona and Nami
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Is Sona better when played alongside Nami?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Sona that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. However, overall, Nami is a very bad companion for Sona. By locking into the same side as Sona, she drops their win rate by -10.9% to 39.5%. This signals that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Sona and Nami that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nami has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means Sona players must be careful when arranging Nami allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Sona and Nami together, you may not be providing your side much cover. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Nami ally's skill level, you need to 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 anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sona to pair well with Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Sona and Nami synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona included at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Nami than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 39.5% helping carry Nami with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Sona and Nami pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 39.5% win rate overall.
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