Sona with Tristana
How to Synergize Sona and Tristana
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Sona Tristana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Sona with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Sona Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Sona in LoL
The Sona Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tristana helps Sona perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona is an ally to Tristana, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This may signal that Tristana provides protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Tristana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Tristana. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Tristana.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Tristana on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Tristana does a decent job of covering Sona during teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Tristana
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Is Sona better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Sona that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Tristana is a not very good teammate for Sona. By playing on the same side as Sona, she lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 48.1%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Sona and Tristana that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Tristana has a lower difficulty than Sona. That means Sona players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Tristana allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Sona players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Sona and Tristana together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough engage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Tristana teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to synergize with Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Sona and Tristana synergy build include Staff of Flowing Water, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Tristana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 48.1% when playing alongside Tristana with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating 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 combinations that we analyzed for Sona and Tristana pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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