Heimerdinger vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Heimerdinger
based on 1,385 Heimerdinger vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Sona
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats provided here feature several significant Heimerdinger versus Sona counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sona..
Heimerdinger normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Sona. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Sona
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Sona?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Heimerdinger usually loses when playing against Sona, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Heimerdinger makes a bad counter to Sona.
While Heimerdinger does have a lower winrate than Sona, when facing one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Heimerdinger into Sonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Heimerdinger has a good 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Heimerdinger is a garbage counter to Sona. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Heimerdinger against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Heimerdinger in order 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 listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger typically picks up much more CS compared to Sona. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Heimerdinger versus Sona build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Sona than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 47.4% battling Sona with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Sona as Heimerdinger, Heimerdinger players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Heimerdinger vs Sona matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
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