Gnar vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Gnar
based on 877 Gnar vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Sona
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Gnar in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some valuable Gnar against Sona counter stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Sona..
Gnar usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Sona. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Sona
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Who is Better, Gnar or Sona?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when taking on Sona, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a poor counter for Sona.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate compared to Sona, when facing one another, Gnar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Sonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Sona. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Sona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically gets much more CS as Sona. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Sona build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Sona than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when countering Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Sona as Gnar, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Gnar vs Sona counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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