Sona with Skarner
How to Synergize Sona and Skarner
based on 285 Sona with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Sona with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Sona Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Sona in LoL
The Sona Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Sona perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is paired with Skarner, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Skarner provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Skarner 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 synergisticly with Skarner.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Skarner on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Skarner does a poor job of covering Sona in teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Skarner
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Is Sona better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no one best synergy for Sona that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, Skarner is a terrible ally for Sona. By being on the same side as Sona, he decreases their win rate by -5.5% to 44.9%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Sona and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means Sona players need to be cautious when finding Skarner teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by aligning Sona and Skarner together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough cover. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona to pair well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Sona and Skarner synergy build consist of Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Skarner than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 44.9% helping carry Skarner with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.9% winrate overall.
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