Nami with Sona
How to Synergize Nami and Sona
based on 38 Nami with Sona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nami Sona Synergy Summary
Best Nami vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Sona
Tips for Playing as Nami with Sona
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Nami in LoL
The Nami 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, Nami sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sona helps Nami perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami is paired with Sona, she gets a sizeable uptick in her full damage output. This may demonstrate that Sona helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played with Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Sona.
Additionally, when Nami plays with Sona on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Sona does a poor job of protecting Nami in team fights.
Synergies between Nami and Sona
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Is Nami better when played alongside Sona?
There is no one best ally for Nami that will always be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Sona is a terrible ally for Nami. By locking into the same team as Nami, she drops their win rate by -9.6% to 39.5%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Nami and Sona that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Nami. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Sona comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Nami players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by grouping Nami and Sona together, you may not be providing your side very much cover. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Sona ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nami to synergize with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Nami and Sona synergy build include Ardent Censer, Imperial Mandate, and Dawncore. When Nami incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Sona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nami had an average winrate of 39.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Sona with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 39.5% winrate overall.
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