Sona vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Sona
based on 4,173 Sona vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Sona vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Sona in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Sona against Kayn matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayn’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kayn. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Sona normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Kayn. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Kayn
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Who is Better, Sona or Kayn?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when taking on Kayn, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a good counter for Kayn.
While Sona does have a higher winrate compared to Kayn, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sona into Kayn.
Furthermore, Sona also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayn. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Kayn matchups, Sona is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Sona is a decent counter for Kayn. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sona to counter Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona most often gets a similar amount of CS as Kayn. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Sona versus Kayn build consist of Dream Maker, Echoes of Helia, and Dawncore. When Sona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Kayn than with most other common builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 51.4% battling Kayn with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Kayn as Sona, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cut Down, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Sona vs Kayn matchups, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
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