Sona with Hecarim
How to Synergize Sona and Hecarim
based on 2,470 Sona with Hecarim pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Hecarim Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Sona with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Sona Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Sona in LoL
The Sona Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Hecarim helps Sona perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona tries to synergize with Hecarim, she sees a little decrease in her total damage output. This change may indicate that Hecarim doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Hecarim. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Hecarim.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Hecarim on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Hecarim does a decent job of covering Sona during team fights.
Synergies between Sona and Hecarim
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Is Sona better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Sona that will no matter what be her best ally. However, overall, Hecarim is a very typical ally for Sona. By playing on the same side as Sona, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 49.8%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Sona and Hecarim that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Hecarim has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means you need to be careful when finding Hecarim teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Sona players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Sona and Hecarim together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of protection for burst damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Hecarim ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sona in order to synergize with Hecarim during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Sona and Hecarim synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Hecarim than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 49.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Hecarim with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cut Down, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.8% win rate overall.
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