Sona with Illaoi
How to Synergize Sona and Illaoi
based on 1,715 Sona with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Sona with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Sona Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Sona in LoL
The Sona Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Illaoi helps Sona perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is paired with Illaoi, she sees a small increase in her full damage dealt. This may signal that Illaoi provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Illaoi.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Illaoi on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Illaoi does a poor job of covering Sona during team fights.
Synergies between Sona and Illaoi
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Is Sona better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no ideal synergy for Sona that will always be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Illaoi is a below average teammate for Sona. By being on the same team as Sona, she lowers their win rate by -2.6% to 47.8%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Sona and Illaoi that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Sona. That means Sona players don't need to be very careful when arranging Illaoi teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Sona and Illaoi together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of engage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's skill level, 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 truly master Sona to pair well with Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Sona and Illaoi synergy build include Redemption, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona used at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Illaoi than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing alongside Illaoi with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Sona players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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