Sona vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Sona
based on 1,788 Sona vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Sona vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Sona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several critical Sona versus Vel'Koz counter statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Sona or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sona usually wins when facing off against Vel'Koz, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a good counter for Vel'Koz.
While Sona does have a higher win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Sona into Vel'Koz.
Furthermore, Sona also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Vel'Koz matchups, Sona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Sona is an above average counter to Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Sona against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the laning 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 listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona typically racks up a lot less CS as Vel'Koz. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Sona versus Vel'Koz build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Sona used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Vel'Koz than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 52.5% battling Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Vel'Koz 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 rune combinations players picked for Sona vs Vel'Koz battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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