Gnar vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Gnar
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Gnar vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Sona
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
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.
Gnar vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown here feature several critical Gnar versus Sona counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Sona..
Gnar often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Sona. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Sona
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Who is Better, Gnar or Sona?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually fairs equally well when playing against Sona, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes an ok counter for Sona.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate compared to Sona, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Sonaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter for Sona. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Sona during both the lane 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 listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically gets much more CS as Sona. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Sona build include Trinity Force, Randuin's Omen, and Force of Nature. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Sona than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Sona as Gnar, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Gnar vs Sona clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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