Hecarim vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Hecarim
based on 2,339 Hecarim vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Sona
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Hecarim in LoL
The stats provided here show some critical Hecarim vs. Sona counter statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sona. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Hecarim normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Sona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Hecarim and Sona
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Sona?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Sona, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Hecarim makes an ok counter to Sona.
While Hecarim does have a lower winrate compared to Sona, when on opposite teams, Hecarim also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Hecarim into Sona.
Additionally, Hecarim has only a small 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 isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Hecarim is a somewhat poor counter for Sona. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Hecarim in order to counter Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Sona. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Hecarim versus Sona build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Sona than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 49.4% battling Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Sona as Hecarim, Hecarim players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Hecarim vs Sona battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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