Xayah with Sona
How to Synergize Xayah and Sona
based on 1,105 Xayah with Sona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Xayah Sona Synergy Summary
Best Xayah vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xayah and Sona
Tips for Playing as Xayah with Sona
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Xayah in LoL
The Xayah 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, Xayah sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sona helps Xayah perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xayah is an ally to Sona, she gets a small decrease in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Sona does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played alongside Sona 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 with Sona.
Moreover, when Xayah plays with Sona on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Sona does a poor job of protecting Xayah in teamfights.
Synergies between Xayah and Sona
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Is Xayah better when played alongside Sona?
There is no one best companion for Xayah that will 100% of the time be her top ally. However, Sona is a relatively poor ally for Xayah. By playing on the same team as Xayah, she decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 46.2%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Xayah and Sona that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Xayah. That means Xayah players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Sona allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Xayah and Sona together, you may not be providing your side very much protection for burst damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Sona ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Xayah Sona Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Xayah to synergize with Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Xayah and Sona synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Sona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xayah boasted an average win rate of 46.2% when playing alongside Sona with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Xayah players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Sona with Xayah are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.