Sona vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Sona
based on 4,130 Sona vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Zyra Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Sona Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Zyra as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Zyra
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 Zyra
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
Sona vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Sona in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some important Sona vs. Zyra counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zyra. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Sona often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Zyra
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Sona or Zyra?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sona usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zyra, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Sona makes an ok counter to Zyra.
While Sona does have a lower win rate than Zyra, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Sona into Zyra.
Moreover, Sona has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often 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 Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Sona is a somewhat poor counter for Zyra. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Zyra.
Other Champion Matchups Against Sona
Additional Information for Sona Players
How We Calculated Our Sona vs Zyra Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to counter Zyra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona often picks up less CS compared to Zyra. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Sona versus Zyra build include Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Echoes of Helia. When Sona combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Zyra than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 49.0% when playing against Zyra with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Zyra 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 players used for Sona vs Zyra clashes, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Sona are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.