Sona vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Sona
based on 643 Sona vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Sona vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Sona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several significant Sona against Elise counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Elise. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Sona usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Elise. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Elise
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Who is Better, Sona or Elise?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when facing off against Elise, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes a good counter for Elise.
While Sona does have a higher winrate compared to Elise, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Sona into Elise.
Furthermore, Sona also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Elise matchups, Sona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Sona is an above average counter for Elise. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sona against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sona to counter Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Elise. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Sona versus Elise build consist of Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Elise than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 52.1% battling Elise with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Elise as Sona, Sona players 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 chose for Sona vs Elise counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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