Tristana vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Tristana
based on 3,108 Tristana vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Sona
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Advice to Win Against Sona
Spread out when you see Sona so she can't make your entire team dance.
Kill Sona first, as she will heal up her team if left alone for too long.
Tristana vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Tristana in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some valuable Tristana vs. Sona matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Sona. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Tristana typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Sona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tristana and Sona
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Who is Better, Tristana or Sona?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually loses when taking on Sona, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes a poor counter to Sona.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate than Sona, when they face off with one another, Tristana also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Tristana into Sona.
Additionally, Tristana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Tristana is a terribly counter for Sona. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Tristana against Sona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Tristana
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana to counter Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana usually racks up much more CS compared to Sona. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Tristana versus Sona build include Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Sona than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Tristana had an average winrate of 47.5% battling Sona with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Sona as Tristana, Tristana players should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Tristana vs Sona counters, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
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