Lissandra vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Lissandra
based on 1,165 Lissandra vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Sona
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Lissandra in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several influential Lissandra versus Sona counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Lissandra usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Sona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lissandra and Sona
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Sona?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lissandra usually fairs equally well when playing against Sona, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Lissandra makes an ok counter for Sona.
While Lissandra does have a higher winrate than Sona, when on opposite teams, Lissandra also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lissandra into Sona.
Additionally, Lissandra has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lissandra 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Lissandra is a decent counter for Sona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lissandra against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra to counter Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra most often racks up much more CS relative to Sona. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Lissandra versus Sona build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Sona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Sona with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Sona as Lissandra, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Lissandra vs Sona battles, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
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