Sona with Bard
How to Synergize Sona and Bard
based on 58 Sona with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Bard Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Bard
Tips for Playing as Sona with Bard
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.
Advice to Understand How Bard Will Play
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.
Sona Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Sona in LoL
The Sona Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Sona perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona tries to synergize with Bard, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This change could indicate that Bard supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Bard.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Bard on the same team, she on average takes less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Bard does a decent job of covering Sona during team fights.
Synergies between Sona and Bard
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Is Sona better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal synergy for Sona that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Bard is a terrible teammate for Sona. By being on the same side as Sona, he decreases their win rate by -19.4% to 31.0%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Sona and Bard that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means Sona players should be cautious when arranging Bard comrades to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Sona and Bard together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of engage potential. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Sona and Bard synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 31.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 31.0% win rate overall.
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