Sona vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Sona
based on 1,353 Sona vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Nilah
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.
Sona vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Sona in LoL
The stats provided here show some vital Sona vs. Nilah counter stats that can help us interpret the differences between the pair. Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nilah. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Nilah. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Nilah
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Who is Better, Sona or Nilah?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sona usually loses when trying to fight Nilah, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes a bad counter for Nilah.
While Sona does have a lower winrate than Nilah, when facing one another, Sona also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Sona into Nilah.
Additionally, Sona also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Sona is a somewhat poor counter for Nilah. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Sona against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sona to counter Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona often picks up a lot less CS relative to Nilah. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Sona versus Nilah build include Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Nilah than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when playing against Nilah with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Nilah 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. Out of all the runes players picked for Sona vs Nilah counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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