Sona with Briar
How to Synergize Sona and Briar
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Sona Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Briar
Tips for Playing as Sona with Briar
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.
Sona Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Sona in LoL
The Sona Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, 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 Briar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Briar helps Sona perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is an ally to Briar, she observes a small increase in her full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Briar provides cover for her to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Briar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Briar.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Briar on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Briar does a poor job of covering Sona during teamfights.
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Is Sona better when played alongside Briar?
There is no top synergy for Sona that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, overall, Briar is a decent companion for Sona. By being on the same team as Sona, they raises their win rate by 2.1% to 52.5%. This shows that there is a somewhat important synergy between Sona and Briar that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Sona. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Briar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Sona and Briar together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of cover. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Briar ally, you should focus on increasing your gold 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona to pair well with Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Sona and Briar synergy build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Briar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 52.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Briar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cut Down, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Sona and Briar pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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