Akshan vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Akshan
based on 1,704 Akshan vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Sona
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Sona
Spread out when you see Sona so she can't make your entire team dance.
Kill Sona first, as she will heal up her team if left alone for too long.
Akshan vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Akshan in LoL
The stats provided here feature several strategic Akshan versus Sona matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Akshan typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Sona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Sona
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Who is Better, Akshan or Sona?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when playing against Sona, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a poor counter for Sona.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate than Sona, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Akshan into Sona.
Additionally, Akshan also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Akshan is a terribly counter for Sona. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan to counter Sona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually accumulates much more CS as Sona. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Akshan versus Sona build consist of Wit's End, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan combined at least these three items in their build, they did much better when facing Sona than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 46.9% when countering Sona with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Sona as Akshan, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Akshan vs Sona counters, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
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