Irelia vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Irelia
based on 2,390 Irelia vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Sona
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Irelia in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several strategic Irelia vs. Sona counter statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Irelia usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Sona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Sona
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Who is Better, Irelia or Sona?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually loses when playing against Sona, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a poor counter to Sona.
While Irelia does have a lower winrate compared to Sona, when facing one another, Irelia also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Irelia into Sona.
Furthermore, Irelia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia 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 late stage team fights.
Irelia is a somewhat poor counter to Sona. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Sona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Irelia
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia typically gets much more CS relative to Sona. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Irelia versus Sona build consist of Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Sona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when playing against Sona with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Sona as Irelia, Irelia players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Irelia vs Sona counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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