Sona vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Sona
based on 1,268 Sona vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Xayah
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 Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Sona vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Sona in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some significant Sona vs. Xayah counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xayah. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Xayah
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Who is Better, Sona or Xayah?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when playing against Xayah, with a 53.4% win rate. Thus, Sona makes a great counter to Xayah.
While Sona does have a higher winrate compared to Xayah, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Sona into Xayah.
Additionally, Sona also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Xayah matchups, Sona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Sona is a great counter for Xayah. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to counter Xayah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Xayah. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sona versus Xayah build include Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona used at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Xayah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 53.4% when countering Xayah with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Xayah 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 builds players picked for Sona vs Xayah face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.4% winrate overall.
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