Kindred vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Kindred
based on 1,785 Kindred vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Sona
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Kindred in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several significant Kindred versus Sona matchup statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kindred typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their foe does. Typically, they takes more damage than Sona. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kindred and Sona
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Who is Better, Kindred or Sona?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually loses when trying to fight Sona, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Kindred makes a bad counter for Sona.
While Kindred does have a lower win rate compared to Sona, when on opposite teams, Kindred also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kindred into Sona.
Furthermore, Kindred also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kindred is a somewhat poor counter to Sona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kindred in order to counter Sona during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Sona. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Kindred versus Sona build consist of Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Terminus. When Kindred combined at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better countering Sona than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kindred boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when countering Sona with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Sona as Kindred, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kindred vs Sona LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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