Janna vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Janna
based on 2,779 Janna vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Sona
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some critical Janna vs. Sona counter statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sona..
Janna normally has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Sona. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Sona
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Who is Better, Janna or Sona?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Sona, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes an ok counter for Sona.
While Janna does have a lower win rate than Sona, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Sonaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Janna is a somewhat poor counter to Sona. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Janna to counter Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into 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.
Janna most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Sona. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost 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 Janna versus Sona build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Sona than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average winrate of 49.7% battling Sona with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Sona as Janna, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Janna vs Sona LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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