Sona with Talon
How to Synergize Sona and Talon
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Sona Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Talon
Tips for Playing as Sona with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Sona Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Sona in LoL
The Sona Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Talon helps Sona perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona plays on the same team as Talon, she gets a small increase in her complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Talon helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Talon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Talon. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Talon.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Talon on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Talon does a poor job of covering Sona in teamfights.
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Is Sona better when played alongside Talon?
There is no top synergy for Sona that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. Yet, Talon is a relatively poor ally for Sona. By playing on the same side as Sona, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 49.2%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Sona and Talon that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Talon has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Talon comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Sona players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Sona and Talon together, you will not be giving your other teammates much engage. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Talon teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 to synergize with Talon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Sona and Talon synergy build consist of Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Dawncore. When Sona used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Talon than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Talon with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Sona players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Sona and Talon pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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