Akali vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Akali
based on 5,304 Akali vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Sona
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Sona
Spread out when you see Sona so she can't make your entire team dance.
Kill Sona first, as she will heal up her team if left alone for too long.
Akali vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Akali in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some important Akali versus Sona matchup statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Akali usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Sona. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Sona
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Who is Better, Akali or Sona?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when trying to fight Sona, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes a bad counter to Sona.
While Akali does have a lower winrate compared to Sona, when facing one another, Akali also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Sonaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Akali also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter for Sona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akali against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to counter Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali usually gets much more CS as Sona. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Akali versus Sona build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Sona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Sona with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Sona as Akali, Akali players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Akali vs Sona LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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