Sona vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Sona
based on 1,255 Sona vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Orianna Counter Build
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Core Sona Items
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Orianna
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 Orianna
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
Sona vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Sona in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some vital Sona versus Orianna matchup stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Orianna. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Orianna. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Orianna
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Sona or Orianna?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when trying to fight Orianna, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Sona makes a good counter to Orianna.
While Sona does have a higher win rate compared to Orianna, when facing one another, Sona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sona into Orianna.
Additionally, Sona has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Orianna matchups, Sona is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Sona is a decent counter to Orianna. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Sona against Orianna.
Other Champion Matchups Against Sona
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How We Calculated Our Sona vs Orianna Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona to counter Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Orianna. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Sona versus Orianna build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Orianna than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 51.3% when playing against Orianna with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Orianna 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 rune sets we have analyed for Sona vs Orianna matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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