Sona vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Sona
based on 3,654 Sona vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Maokai
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 Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Sona vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Sona in LoL
The stats shown here feature some influential Sona vs. Maokai matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai..
Sona normally has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Maokai
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Who is Better, Sona or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sona usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Sona does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Sona into Maokai.
Additionally, Sona has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sona vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Sona is a garbage counter to Maokai. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Sona against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sona to counter Maokai 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona often picks up less CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Sona versus Maokai build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Sona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 46.9% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Maokai as Sona, Sona players 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 we have analyed for Sona vs Maokai fights, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
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