Nidalee vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Nidalee
based on 655 Nidalee vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Sona
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several critical Nidalee versus Sona matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Nidalee often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives more damage than Sona. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Sona
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Sona?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Sona, with a 46.1% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Sona.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Sona, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Sonaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter to Sona. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Sona. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Sona build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Sona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 46.1% when countering Sona with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Sona as Nidalee, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Nidalee vs Sona matchups, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.1% win rate overall.
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