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How to Win Garen vs Sona Counter MatchupGaren is in the b tier of champions

Garen vs Sona

How to Beat Sona as Garen in LoLGaren is in the a tier of champions
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How to Beat Sona as Garen

based on 3,164 Garen vs Sona matchups
Win Rate
47.5 %
K/D/A
1.96
Pick Rate
2.3 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

At MOBA Champion, we summarize millions of ranked League of Legends rounds each and every week. Within our dataset, Garen did battle with Sona 3164 times. Using so many matchups for Garen vs Sona provides us faith in our capacity to provide useful data and a recommended build to suppress Sona. This particular champ matchup is somewhat rare. Garen encounters Sona in only 2.3% of his matches.

Garen vs Sona Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Garen has done a poor job of countering Sona. On average, he wins a lowly 47.5% of matches the champs face each other in. In Garen versus Sona games, Garen’s team is 0.0% more expected to earn first blood. This indicates that he most likely will get first blood versus Sona.

Best Garen vs Sona Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageTrinity ForceStridebreaker

Optional Items

Spear of ShojinDead Man's PlateSundered SkyMortal Reminder

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Garen to level upe
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Second ability for Garen to level upq
>
Last skill for Garen to max outw

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: TenacityLast Stand
SorceryNimbus CloakCelerity
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Garen's passive ability p
Garen's q ability q
Garen's w ability w
Garen's e ability e
Garen's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
E
5
E
6
R
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E
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Guide to Countering Sona as Garen

Tips for Playing as Garen against Sona

Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.

Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.

Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.

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.

Garen vs Sona Counter Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
47.5 %
VS
Win Rate
52.5 %
Sona Image
5.8
< Kills >
2.2
4.9
< Deaths >
5.2
3.8
< Assists >
14.1
1.32
< Killing Sprees >
0.42
176
< Minions Killed >
27
0.11
< Dragons Killed >
0.06
0.62
< Inhibitors >
0.63
13,749
< Physical Damage >
1,662
225
< Magic Damage >
8,364
4,435
< True Damage >
587
18,410
< Damage Dealt >
10,614
30,939
< Damage Taken >
18,343
11,941
< Gold Earned >
8,564
2.8
< Towers >
2.47
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.01
3,208
< Total Healing >
12,599
14,996
< Experience >
10,771
17
< Vision Score >
52
8
< Wards Placed >
23
140
< Time Dealing CC >
49

How to Counter Sona with Garen in LoL

The stats provided here emphasize some significant Garen vs. Sona counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between this pair of champions. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.

Garen typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Sona. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.

Differences between Garen and Sona

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Sona
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Garen
Sona

Who is Better, Garen or Sona?

Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually loses when taking on Sona, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a poor counter for Sona.

While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Sona, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Garen into Sona.

Additionally, Garen has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen 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.

Garen is a bad counter for Sona. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Garen against Sona.

Other Champion Matchups Against Garen

Garen Loses Against

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Garen Wins Against

YuumiYuumi56.1% winrateNidaleeNidalee54.9% winrateK'SanteK'Sante53.3% winrateEzrealEzreal53.2% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

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Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen vs Sona Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Sona as Garen, we analyzed 3,164 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Sona as Garen comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

Other Useful Resources

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

To learn all of the intricacies of Garen 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.

Garen most often gets much more CS compared to Sona. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.

The most crucial items to use in your Garen versus Sona build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Sona than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 47.5% when countering Sona with this build.

To have the highest probability of crushing Sona as Garen, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Garen vs Sona counters, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.

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