Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
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.
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Trundle vs. Sona counter stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between this pair of champions. Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sona. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Trundle typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Sona. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Trundle usually fairs equally well when playing against Sona, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Trundle makes an ok counter for Sona.
While Trundle does have a lower winrate than Sona, when on opposite teams, Trundle also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Trundle into Sona.
Moreover, Trundle has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Trundle is a somewhat poor counter to Sona. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Trundle against Sona.
To learn all of the intricacies of Trundle in order to counter Sona 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 mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle most often gets much more CS compared to Sona. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Trundle versus Sona build include Divine Sunderer, Thornmail, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Trundle combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Sona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Trundle boasted an average winrate of 49.4% battling Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Sona as Trundle, Trundle players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Trundle vs Sona counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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