Katarina with Sona
How to Synergize Katarina and Sona
based on 3,109 Katarina with Sona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Sona Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Sona
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Sona
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sona helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is an ally to Sona, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Sona supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Sona.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Sona on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Sona does a decent job of protecting Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Sona
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Sona?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. However, overall, Sona is a pretty good teammate for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, she raises their win rate by 1.3% to 50.1%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Katarina and Sona that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Sona has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Sona teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Katarina and Sona together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of engage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Sona ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Katarina in order to work well with Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Katarina and Sona synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Sona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 50.1% helping carry Sona with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Katarina players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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