Sona with Riven
How to Synergize Sona and Riven
based on 2,883 Sona with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Riven Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Riven
Tips for Playing as Sona with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Sona Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Sona in LoL
The Sona Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Sona perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona plays on the same team as Riven, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Riven supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Riven on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Sona during teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Riven
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Is Sona better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best champion pairing for Sona that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. Yet, Riven is a pretty good ally for Sona. By being on the same side as Sona, she improves their win rate by 1.6% to 52.0%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Sona and Riven that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means Sona players must be careful when enlisting Riven teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Sona and Riven together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of engage potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona to work well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Sona and Riven synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 52.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.0% winrate overall.
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