Sona vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Sona
based on 3,741 Sona vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Diana
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 Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Sona vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Sona in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some strategic Sona vs. Diana counter statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Diana. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Sona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Diana. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Diana
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Who is Better, Sona or Diana?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sona usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Diana, with a 50.7% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes an ok counter for Diana.
While Sona does have a higher winrate than Diana, when facing one another, Sona also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Sona into Diana.
Furthermore, Sona has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Diana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sona vs Diana matchups, Sona is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Sona is a decent counter for Diana. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Sona against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sona to counter Diana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Diana. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Sona versus Diana build include Seraph's Embrace, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Sona combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Diana than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 50.7% battling Diana with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Diana as Sona, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Sona vs Diana fights, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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