Sona vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Sona
based on 827 Sona vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Taric
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 Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Sona vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Sona in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some strategic Sona vs. Taric matchup stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric..
Sona normally has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Taric. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Taric
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Who is Better, Sona or Taric?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sona usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a bad counter for Taric.
While Sona does have a lower win rate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Sona into Taric.
Additionally, Sona has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Sona is a somewhat poor counter for Taric. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sona to counter Taric 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 suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Taric. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sona versus Taric build consist of Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Taric than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Taric with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Taric as Sona, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Sona vs Taric counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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