Riven vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Riven
based on 2,947 Riven vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Sona Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Riven Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Sona as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Sona
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some vital Riven against Sona matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences between these two champions. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Riven typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes more damage than Sona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Sona
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Riven or Sona?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when taking on Sona, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes an ok counter to Sona.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Sona, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Sonaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Sona. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Riven against Sona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Riven
Additional Information for Riven Players
How We Calculated Our Riven vs Sona Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average picks up much more CS compared to Sona. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Riven versus Sona build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Sona than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when playing against Sona with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Sona as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Riven vs Sona counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
If you need to get Riven vs Sona tips and matchup stats and build suggestions for a an individual player tier, feel free to choose one from the selection menu shown above. At first, the stats and build suggestions shown are calculated using all rounds with data with both champs.