Sona with Zilean
How to Synergize Sona and Zilean
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Sona Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Sona with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Sona Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Sona in LoL
The Sona Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zilean helps Sona perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is an ally to Zilean, she observes a noticable increase in her complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Zilean helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Zilean on the same side, 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 with Zilean.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Zilean on the same side, she usually receives more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Sona in teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Zilean
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Is Sona better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Sona that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, overall, Zilean is a below average companion for Sona. By being on the same side as Sona, he decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 49.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Sona and Zilean that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means Sona players must be careful when enlisting Zilean teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by grouping Sona and Zilean together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sona to pair well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Sona and Zilean synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Zilean than with many other common item sets. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing alongside Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Sona and Zilean pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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