Sona vs Hecarim
How to Beat Hecarim as Sona
based on 2,339 Sona vs Hecarim matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Hecarim Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hecarim as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Hecarim
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 Hecarim
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
Sona vs Hecarim Counter Stats
How to Counter Hecarim with Sona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several strategic Sona vs. Hecarim matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences between this pair of champions. Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Hecarim’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Hecarim. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Sona usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Hecarim. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Hecarim
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Who is Better, Sona or Hecarim?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually fairs equally well when taking on Hecarim, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Sona makes an ok counter for Hecarim.
While Sona does have a higher winrate compared to Hecarim, when facing one another, Sona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sona into Hecarim.
Additionally, Sona also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hecarim. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sona vs Hecarim matchups, Sona is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Sona is a decent counter for Hecarim. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sona against Hecarim.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to counter Hecarim during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Hecarim. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Sona versus Hecarim build include Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Hecarim than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 50.6% when playing against Hecarim with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Hecarim 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. Of all the runes players used for Sona vs Hecarim fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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