Sona with Naafiri
How to Synergize Sona and Naafiri
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Sona Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Sona with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Sona Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Sona in LoL
The Sona Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Naafiri helps Sona perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona is an ally to Naafiri, she sees a small decrease in her full damage output. This may demonstrate that Naafiri does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that their support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Naafiri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Naafiri.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Naafiri on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Naafiri does a decent job of protecting Sona in teamfights.
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Is Sona better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no perfect ally for Sona that will always be her best synergy. However, overall, Naafiri is a below average teammate for Sona. By being on the same side as Sona, they lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 48.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Sona and Naafiri that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Naafiri has a lower difficulty than Sona. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Naafiri allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Sona players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Sona and Naafiri together, you will not be granting your team enough tankyness. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Naafiri teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 synergize with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Sona and Naafiri synergy build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Naafiri than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Naafiri with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Naafiri with Sona are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.