Sona vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Sona
based on 1,311 Sona vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Sona vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Sona in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several valuable Sona against Jayce counter stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jayce’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Jayce. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Sona often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Jayce. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Jayce
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Who is Better, Sona or Jayce?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when facing off against Jayce, with a 56.1% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes a fantastic counter to Jayce.
While Sona does have a much higher win rate compared to Jayce, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Sona into Jayce.
Additionally, Sona has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jayce. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Jayce 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 teammates during teamfights.
Sona is a great counter to Jayce. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Sona against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to counter Jayce during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow 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 compared to Jayce. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Sona versus Jayce build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Jayce than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 56.1% when countering Jayce with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Jayce as Sona, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Sona vs Jayce face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 56.1% winrate overall.
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