Sona vs Galio
How to Beat Galio as Sona
based on 2,353 Sona vs Galio matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Galio Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Galio Counter Build
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Core Sona Items
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Guide to Countering Galio as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Galio
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 Galio
Galio cannot traverse walls with Justice Punch.
Galio moves slower when he is charging Shield of Durand.
Hero's Entrance can be interrupted before Galio jumps into the air.
Sona vs Galio Counter Stats
How to Counter Galio with Sona in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several vital Sona versus Galio counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Galio’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Galio. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Galio. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Galio
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Sona or Galio?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually loses when playing against Galio, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Sona makes a bad counter to Galio.
While Sona does have a lower winrate than Galio, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Sona into Galio.
Moreover, Sona also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Galio. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Galio matchups, Galio is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Sona is a somewhat poor counter to Galio. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Sona against Galio.
Other Champion Matchups Against Sona
Additional Information for Sona Players
How We Calculated Our Sona vs Galio Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sona to counter Galio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona typically picks up a lot less CS relative to Galio. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Sona versus Galio build consist of Staff of Flowing Water, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Galio than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 48.8% battling Galio with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Galio as Sona, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Sona vs Galio clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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