Vel'Koz vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Vel'Koz
based on 1,788 Vel'Koz vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Sona
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown here show some strategic Vel'Koz versus Sona matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champs. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sona..
Vel'Koz usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Sona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Sona
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Sona?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually loses when playing against Sona, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes a bad counter to Sona.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower win rate than Sona, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Vel'Koz into Sonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz 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.
Vel'Koz is a trash counter for Sona. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz typically picks up much more CS compared to Sona. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Vel'Koz versus Sona build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Sona than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 47.5% when countering Sona with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Sona as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Vel'Koz vs Sona counters, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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