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.
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
The Sona Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Sona perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona plays on the same team as Vel'Koz, she gets a small increase in her full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Vel'Koz provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Sona in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Sona that will always be her #1 ally. However, Vel'Koz is a very typical ally for Sona. By playing on the same side as Sona, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 49.6%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Sona and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means Sona players should be careful when enlisting Vel'Koz comrades to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Sona and Vel'Koz together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of engage potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Sona in order to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Sona and Vel'Koz synergy build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 49.6% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Vel'Koz with Sona are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.