Sona with Nidalee
How to Synergize Sona and Nidalee
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Sona Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Sona with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Sona Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Sona in LoL
The Sona Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nidalee helps Sona perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is an ally to Nidalee, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Nidalee doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Nidalee 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 alongside Nidalee.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Nidalee on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Nidalee does a decent job of protecting Sona during teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Nidalee
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Is Sona better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Sona that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Nidalee is a terrible ally for Sona. By locking into the same side as Sona, she lowers their win rate by -5.2% to 45.2%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Sona and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means Sona players must be very careful when lining up Nidalee teammates to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Sona players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Sona and Nidalee together, you will not be granting your side very much engage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 pair well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Sona and Nidalee synergy build include Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona used at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Nidalee than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 45.2% helping carry Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest 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. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.2% win rate overall.
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