Sona vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Sona
based on 2,493 Sona vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Sion Counter Build
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Core Sona Items
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Guide to Countering Sion as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Sion
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 Sion
Use the time after Sion has died to reposition and prepare for his return.
Even if Sion still hits a Decimating Smash, making him release the charge earlier reduces its impact.
Sona vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Sona in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some vital Sona against Sion matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sion’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Sion. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Sona normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Sion. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Sion
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Sona or Sion?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sona usually fairs equally well when playing against Sion, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Sona makes an ok counter for Sion.
While Sona does have a higher win rate than Sion, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Sona into Sion.
Moreover, Sona also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sona vs Sion matchups, Sona is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Sona is a decent counter to Sion. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Sona against Sion.
Other Champion Matchups Against Sona
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How We Calculated Our Sona vs Sion Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sona to counter Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Sion. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Sona versus Sion build include Seraph's Embrace, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Sona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Sion than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when playing against Sion with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Sion as Sona, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cut Down, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Sona vs Sion LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
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