Sona vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Sona
based on 655 Sona vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Nidalee
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 Nidalee
Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
Sona vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Sona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some significant Sona versus Nidalee counter stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nidalee. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Sona usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Nidalee. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Sona or Nidalee?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sona usually wins when facing off against Nidalee, with a 53.9% win rate. Thus, Sona makes a great counter to Nidalee.
While Sona does have a higher win rate than Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Sona into Nidalee.
Additionally, Sona also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Nidalee matchups, Sona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Sona is a great counter to Nidalee. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to counter Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Sona versus Nidalee build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Nidalee than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 53.9% when playing against Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Nidalee as Sona, Sona players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Sona vs Nidalee counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.9% win rate overall.
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