Sona vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Sona
based on 1,293 Sona vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Sona vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Sona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several important Sona against Sivir counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sivir’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Sivir. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Sivir. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Sivir
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Who is Better, Sona or Sivir?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sona usually wins when trying to fight Sivir, with a 55.9% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a fantastic counter for Sivir.
While Sona does have a much higher win rate than Sivir, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Sona into Sivir.
Additionally, Sona also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sivir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing 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 Sivir matchups, Sona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Sona is a great counter for Sivir. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Sivir.
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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 Sivir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Sivir. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sona versus Sivir build include Seraph's Embrace, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Sivir than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 55.9% when playing against Sivir with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Sivir 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. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Sona vs Sivir counters, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.9% win rate overall.
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