Sona vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Sona
based on 3,076 Sona vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Veigar Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Veigar
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 Veigar
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
Sona vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Sona in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several vital Sona vs. Veigar matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Veigar. This observation is in large part a result of 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 Veigar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Veigar
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Who is Better, Sona or Veigar?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sona usually loses when facing off against Veigar, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes a bad counter for Veigar.
While Sona does have a lower winrate than Veigar, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Sona into Veigar.
Additionally, Sona has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Veigar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Sona is a somewhat poor counter to Veigar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Veigar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sona to counter Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona typically gets a lot less CS compared to Veigar. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Sona versus Veigar build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Sona incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better countering Veigar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 48.5% battling Veigar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Veigar as Sona, Sona players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Sona vs Veigar matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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