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 stats shown here clarify several influential Sett against Sona matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences between the two. Sett’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sett may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sona. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Sett typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Sona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sett usually fairs equally well when taking on Sona, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Sett makes an ok counter to Sona.
While Sett does have a higher win rate compared to Sona, when on opposite teams, Sett also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Sett into Sona.
Moreover, Sett has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sett vs Sona matchups, Sett is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Sett is a decent counter for Sona. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sett against Sona.
If you would like to truly master Sett in order to counter Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sett most often gets much more CS relative to Sona. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Sett versus Sona build consist of Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Sett combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Sona than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Sett boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when countering Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Sona as Sett, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Sett vs Sona counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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