Briar vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Briar
based on 4,078 Briar vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Briar vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Briar vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Briar
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.
Briar vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Briar in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several influential Briar against Sona matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences between the pair. Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Sona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Briar often has a much larger longest kill spree than their counter does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Sona. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Briar and Sona
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Who is Better, Briar or Sona?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Briar usually wins when playing against Sona, with a 51.4% win rate. Therefore, Briar makes a good counter to Sona.
While Briar does have a higher winrate compared to Sona, when facing one another, Briar also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Briar into Sona.
Additionally, Briar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Briar vs Sona matchups, Briar is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Briar is a decent counter to Sona. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Briar against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Briar in order to counter Sona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Sona. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Briar versus Sona build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Death's Dance. When Briar used at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when facing Sona than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Briar had an average win rate of 51.4% when countering Sona with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Sona as Briar, Briar players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Briar vs Sona battles, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Sona as Briar are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.