Kai'Sa vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Kai'Sa
based on 3,670 Kai'Sa vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Sona
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several significant Kai'Sa vs. Sona counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Sona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Sona. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Sona
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Sona?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when playing against Sona, with a 45.6% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter for Sona.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower winrate compared to Sona, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Sona.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a bad counter for Sona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kai'Sa to counter Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa on average racks up much more CS compared to Sona. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Sona build include Stormrazor, Nashor's Tooth, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Sona than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when countering Sona with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Sona as Kai'Sa, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Sona counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.6% winrate overall.
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