Bard vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Bard
based on 2,793 Bard vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Sona
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some important Bard vs. Sona counter stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sona..
Bard typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Sona. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Sona
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Who is Better, Bard or Sona?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Sona, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter for Sona.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Sona, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Sonaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Sona matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Bard is an above average counter to Sona. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Bard against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Bard in order to counter Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically gets a similar amount of CS as Sona. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Bard versus Sona build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Sona than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 52.5% battling Sona with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Sona as Bard, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Bard vs Sona counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Sona as Bard are shown for every ranked division. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.