Sona vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Sona
based on 1,272 Sona vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Anivia
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Advice to Win Against Anivia
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Sona vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Sona in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several important Sona vs. Anivia matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Anivia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Anivia. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Anivia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Anivia
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Who is Better, Sona or Anivia?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually loses when facing off against Anivia, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a bad counter for Anivia.
While Sona does have a lower winrate than Anivia, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Sona into Anivia.
Moreover, Sona has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Sona is a terribly counter for Anivia. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Sona against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sona to counter Anivia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona most often gets a lot less CS as Anivia. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Sona versus Anivia build include Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Anivia than with most other common builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when countering Anivia with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Anivia as Sona, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Sona vs Anivia matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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