Jayce vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Jayce
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Jayce vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Sona
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
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.
Jayce vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Jayce in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some important Jayce vs. Sona matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Jayce normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Sona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Jayce and Sona
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Who is Better, Jayce or Sona?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jayce usually loses when facing off against Sona, with a 45.4% win rate. As a result, Jayce makes a poor counter for Sona.
While Jayce does have a much lower winrate compared to Sona, when on opposite teams, Jayce also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Jayce into Sonaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Jayce has almost no amount 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 in League of Legends, in Jayce vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Jayce is a trash counter for Sona. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Jayce against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Jayce 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce most often gets much more CS relative to Sona. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Jayce versus Sona build include Eclipse, Muramana, and Maw of Malmortius. When Jayce combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Sona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Jayce had an average winrate of 45.4% when countering Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Sona as Jayce, Jayce players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Jayce vs Sona matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.4% win rate overall.
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