Veigar vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Veigar
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Veigar vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Sona
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
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.
Veigar vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some strategic Veigar against Sona matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Veigar often has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Sona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Sona
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Who is Better, Veigar or Sona?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually wins when facing off against Sona, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Veigar makes a good counter for Sona.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate than Sona, when facing one another, Veigar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Veigar into Sonaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Sona matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Veigar is an above average counter to Sona. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Veigar in order to counter Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar most often racks up much more CS relative to Sona. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Veigar versus Sona build include Everfrost, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Anathema's Chains. When Veigar included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Sona than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing against Sona with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Sona as Veigar, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Veigar vs Sona clashes, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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