Tristana with Sona
How to Synergize Tristana and Sona
based on 2,760 Tristana with Sona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tristana Sona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tristana and Sona
Tips for Playing as Tristana with Sona
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Advice to Understand How Sona Will Play
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.
Tristana Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Tristana in LoL
The Tristana Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Tristana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sona helps Tristana perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tristana is an ally to Sona, she observes a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This may signal that Sona does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played alongside Sona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Sona.
Moreover, when Tristana plays with Sona on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Sona does a decent job of protecting Tristana during teamfights.
Synergies between Tristana and Sona
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Is Tristana better when played alongside Sona?
There is no ideal synergy for Tristana that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, Sona is a very typical teammate for Tristana. By being on the same side as Tristana, she lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 48.1%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Tristana and Sona that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Tristana. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Sona teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Tristana and Sona together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of tankyness. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Sona ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana in order to pair well with Sona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Tristana and Sona synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Sona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 48.1% helping carry Sona with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Tristana players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Tristana and Sona pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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