Vayne vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Vayne
based on 4,714 Vayne vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Sona Counter Build
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Core Vayne Items
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Guide to Countering Sona as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Sona
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several influential Vayne versus Sona matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Vayne normally 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 hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vayne and Sona
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Vayne or Sona?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vayne usually loses when facing off against Sona, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Vayne makes a bad counter for Sona.
While Vayne does have a lower winrate than Sona, when on opposite teams, Vayne also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Vayne into Sonaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vayne has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Vayne is a somewhat poor counter to Sona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vayne against Sona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Vayne
Additional Information for Vayne Players
How We Calculated Our Vayne vs Sona Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vayne to counter Sona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne on average racks up much more CS compared to Sona. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Vayne versus Sona build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Vayne incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Sona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vayne had an average winrate of 48.6% when playing against Sona with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Sona as Vayne, Vayne players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vayne vs Sona clashes, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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