Elise vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Elise
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Elise vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Sona
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several critical Elise against Sona counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Sona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Elise typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes more damage than Sona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Elise and Sona
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Who is Better, Elise or Sona?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Elise usually loses when playing against Sona, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Elise makes a poor counter to Sona.
While Elise does have a lower win rate than Sona, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Elise into Sonaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Elise also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Elise vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Elise is a bad counter for Sona. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Elise against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Sona. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Elise versus Sona build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Sona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Elise had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Sona with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Sona as Elise, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Elise vs Sona battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Sona as Elise are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.