Katarina vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Katarina
based on 3,146 Katarina vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Sona
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here feature several vital Katarina against Sona matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Sona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes more damage than Sona. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Sona
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Who is Better, Katarina or Sona?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when playing against Sona, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes an ok counter to Sona.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Sona, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Sonaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina 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 team members during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Sona. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often accumulates much more CS as Sona. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Katarina versus Sona build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Sona than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when countering Sona with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Sona as Katarina, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Katarina vs Sona clashes, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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