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.
He gains speed while chasing in a straight line, but taking damage makes him lose that momentum.
Try to get inside his orbit, since his stars can't hurt you up close.
His stars disappear while stunned or silenced, giving you an easy opportunity to fight him.
His Starsurge ability can grow to cover a huge area - don't stay in the same place too long!
The stat comparisons shown here feature some critical Sona versus Aurelion Sol counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between these two champs. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aurelion Sol’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Aurelion Sol. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Sona often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Aurelion Sol. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually loses when taking on Aurelion Sol, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes a poor counter to Aurelion Sol.
While Sona does have a lower win rate than Aurelion Sol, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sona into Aurelion Sol.
Furthermore, Sona has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aurelion Sol. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Aurelion Sol matchups, Aurelion Sol is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Sona is a somewhat poor counter to Aurelion Sol. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Sona against Aurelion Sol.
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to counter Aurelion Sol during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona often picks up a lot less CS relative to Aurelion Sol. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Sona versus Aurelion Sol build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Aurelion Sol than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 48.7% when countering Aurelion Sol with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Aurelion Sol as Sona, Sona players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cut Down, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Sona vs Aurelion Sol battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Aurelion Sol as Sona are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu above.