Darius vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Darius
based on 3,241 Darius vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Sona
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Darius in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some influential Darius against Sona counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Darius normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Sona. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Darius and Sona
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Who is Better, Darius or Sona?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Darius usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Sona, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Darius makes an ok counter for Sona.
While Darius does have a lower win rate compared to Sona, when facing one another, Darius also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Darius into Sona.
Additionally, Darius also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Darius vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Darius is a somewhat poor counter to Sona. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Darius against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Darius to counter Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius on average racks up much more CS as Sona. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Darius versus Sona build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Darius included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Sona than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 49.0% when playing against Sona with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Sona as Darius, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Darius vs Sona clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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