Sona with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Sona and Caitlyn
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Sona Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Sona with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Sona Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Sona in LoL
The Sona Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Caitlyn helps Sona perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona plays on the same team as Caitlyn, she sees a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This could indicate that Caitlyn does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Caitlyn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Caitlyn.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Caitlyn on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Caitlyn does a poor job of protecting Sona in teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Caitlyn
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Is Sona better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no ideal ally for Sona that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, Caitlyn is a not very good ally for Sona. By playing on the same side as Sona, she drops their win rate by -2.2% to 48.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Sona and Caitlyn that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means you must be cautious when arranging Caitlyn allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Sona and Caitlyn together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough cover. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Caitlyn teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 work well with Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Sona and Caitlyn synergy build consist of Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Caitlyn than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 48.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Caitlyn with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Revitalize, and Conditioning runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
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