Alistar with Sona
How to Synergize Alistar and Sona
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Alistar Sona Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Sona
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Sona
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Alistar Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sona helps Alistar perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar is paired with Sona, he observes a very large increase in his total damage output. This change could signal that Sona provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Sona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sona.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Sona on the same side, he typically takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Sona does a poor job of covering Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Sona
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Sona?
There is no top companion for Alistar that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Sona is a terrible ally for Alistar. By being on the same side as Alistar, she lowers their win rate by -4.2% to 45.2%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Alistar and Sona that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Sona has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Sona teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Alistar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Alistar and Sona together, you will not be providing your side much AD. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Sona teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to pair well with Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Alistar and Sona synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Frozen Heart. When Alistar combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Sona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 45.2% when playing alongside Sona with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Alistar players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Sona with Alistar are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.