Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
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.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several valuable Kayle vs. Sona matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kayle normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives more damage than Sona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kayle usually fairs equally well when playing against Sona, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Kayle makes an ok counter to Sona.
While Kayle does have a lower winrate compared to Sona, when facing one another, Kayle also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kayle into Sonaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single 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 allied champions during team fights.
Kayle is a somewhat poor counter to Sona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Sona.
If you would like to truly master Kayle to counter Sona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle most often gets much more CS as Sona. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Kayle versus Sona build include Riftmaker, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Sona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 49.1% battling Sona with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Sona as Kayle, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Kayle vs Sona LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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