Bard with Sona
How to Synergize Bard and Sona
based on 58 Bard with Sona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Sona Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Sona
Tips for Playing as Bard with Sona
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sona helps Bard perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Sona, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Sona provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Sona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sona.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Sona on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Sona does a decent job of protecting Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Sona?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Bard that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Sona is a terrible teammate for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, she lowers their win rate by -21.3% to 31.0%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible bond between Bard and Sona that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Sona has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Sona allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, Bard players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Bard and Sona together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough cover. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Sona ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Bard to work well with Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Bard and Sona synergy build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Bard combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Sona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 31.0% when playing alongside Sona with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Bard and Sona pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 31.0% winrate overall.
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