Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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 here underscore several valuable Hwei vs. Sona counter statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Sona..
Hwei normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Sona. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Hwei usually loses when facing off against Sona, with a 45.9% win rate. As a result, Hwei makes a poor counter to Sona.
While Hwei does have a much lower winrate compared to Sona, when on opposite teams, Hwei also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Hwei into Sonaas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Hwei also 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Hwei is a garbage counter to Sona. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Hwei against Sona.
To learn all of the intricacies of Hwei 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 tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei on average racks up much more CS relative to Sona. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Hwei versus Sona build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Hwei bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better versus Sona than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Hwei boasted an average win rate of 45.9% when playing against Sona with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Sona as Hwei, Hwei players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Hwei vs Sona counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
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