Sona vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Sona
based on 3,164 Sona vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Sona vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Sona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some valuable Sona vs. Garen matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Garen. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Sona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Garen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Garen
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Who is Better, Sona or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sona usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a good counter to Garen.
While Sona does have a higher win rate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Sona into Garen.
Furthermore, Sona has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Garen matchups, Sona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Sona is a good counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Sona against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sona to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona often racks up a lot less CS as Garen. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Sona versus Garen build include Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Garen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 52.5% when countering Garen with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Garen as Sona, Sona players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cut Down, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Sona vs Garen battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
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