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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some vital Fiddlesticks against Sona matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Fiddlesticks normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Sona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually fairs equally well when taking on Sona, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Fiddlesticks makes an ok counter for Sona.
While Fiddlesticks does have a higher win rate compared to Sona, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Fiddlesticks into Sonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Fiddlesticks has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This often 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 Fiddlesticks vs Sona matchups, Fiddlesticks is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Fiddlesticks is a decent counter for Sona. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Fiddlesticks against Sona.
If you would like to truly master Fiddlesticks in order to counter Sona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks typically gets a similar amount of CS as Sona. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Fiddlesticks versus Sona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Sona than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average winrate of 50.8% battling Sona with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Sona as Fiddlesticks, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Fiddlesticks vs Sona face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
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