Diana vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Diana
based on 3,741 Diana vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Sona
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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.
Diana vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Diana in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several significant Diana against Sona matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences between the two. For instance, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Diana normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Sona. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Diana and Sona
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Who is Better, Diana or Sona?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Diana usually fairs equally well when taking on Sona, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Diana makes an ok counter for Sona.
While Diana does have a lower winrate than Sona, when facing one another, Diana also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Diana into Sona.
Moreover, Diana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Diana vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Diana is a somewhat poor counter for Sona. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Diana to counter Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana typically gets much more CS as Sona. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Diana versus Sona build consist of Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Diana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Sona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when countering Sona with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Sona as Diana, Diana players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Diana vs Sona face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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