Kayle vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Kayle
based on 2,797 Kayle vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Sona
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some significant Kayle versus Sona counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the pair. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Sona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kayle usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Sona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayle and Sona
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Who is Better, Kayle or Sona?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayle usually fairs equally well when taking on Sona, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Kayle makes an ok counter for Sona.
While Kayle does have a lower winrate than Sona, when facing one another, Kayle also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayle into Sonaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a somewhat poor counter to Sona. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kayle against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayle in order to counter Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average gets much more CS compared to Sona. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kayle versus Sona build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Sona than with most other common builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when countering Sona with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Sona as Kayle, Kayle players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Kayle vs Sona face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Sona as Kayle are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.