Sona vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Sona
based on 1,165 Sona vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Sona vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Sona in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several significant Sona versus Lissandra counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lissandra. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Sona usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Sona or Lissandra?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sona usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Lissandra, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Sona makes an ok counter to Lissandra.
While Sona does have a higher win rate than Lissandra, when facing one another, Sona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Sona into Lissandra.
Moreover, Sona also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champ 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 Lissandra. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Sona against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to counter Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona on average picks up a lot less CS as Lissandra. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Sona versus Lissandra build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Lissandra than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Lissandra with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Lissandra 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 players chose for Sona vs Lissandra battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lissandra as Sona are presented for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.