Sona vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Sona
based on 869 Sona vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Olaf
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 Olaf
Olaf has reduced defenses from damage during Ragnarok, despite being immune to disables. If you can't escape from Olaf during Ragnarok, try focusing your damage on him with your teammates.
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
Sona vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Sona in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some significant Sona against Olaf counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Olaf. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Sona typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Olaf. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Olaf
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Who is Better, Sona or Olaf?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when facing off against Olaf, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Sona does have a higher win rate than Olaf, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Sona into Olaf.
Additionally, Sona also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Olaf matchups, Sona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Sona is an above average counter to Olaf. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sona against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to counter Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona usually gets a lot less CS as Olaf. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Sona versus Olaf build consist of Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Olaf than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 52.1% when playing against Olaf with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Olaf as Sona, you 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 Olaf face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
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