Sona with Brand
How to Synergize Sona and Brand
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Sona Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Brand
Tips for Playing as Sona with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Sona Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Sona in LoL
The Sona Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Brand helps Sona perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona is an ally to Brand, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage output. This could indicate that Brand does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Brand on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Brand.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Brand on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Brand does a poor job of protecting Sona during teamfights.
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Is Sona better when played alongside Brand?
There is no top synergy for Sona that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Brand is a decent teammate for Sona. By playing on the same side as Sona, he raises their win rate by 1.7% to 52.1%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Sona and Brand that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Sona. That means Sona players don't need to be careful when finding Brand teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Sona players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Sona and Brand together, you may not be granting your side enough protection for burst damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Brand teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to work well with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Sona and Brand synergy build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Sona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Brand than with most other common builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 52.1% helping carry Brand with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Sona players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.1% win rate overall.
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