Sona vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Sona
based on 833 Sona vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Cassiopeia
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Advice to Win Against Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Sona vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Sona in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some significant Sona vs. Cassiopeia counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Cassiopeia. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Cassiopeia. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Sona or Cassiopeia?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when trying to fight Cassiopeia, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Sona makes a good counter to Cassiopeia.
While Sona does have a higher win rate than Cassiopeia, when facing one another, Sona also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Sona into Cassiopeia.
Furthermore, Sona has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Cassiopeia matchups, Sona is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Sona is a decent counter for Cassiopeia. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sona against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sona in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Cassiopeia. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Sona versus Cassiopeia build include Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Cassiopeia than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 51.5% when countering Cassiopeia with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Cassiopeia as Sona, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Sona vs Cassiopeia face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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