Sona vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Sona
based on 877 Sona vs Gnar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Gnar
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 Gnar
Gnar's ultimate stuns if he hits you into a wall. Be careful when fighting him near one.
Gnar's animations and resource bar change as he gets closer to transforming.
Gnar can't gain Rage for 15 seconds after he turns from big to little. Use this chance to engage on his team.
Sona vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Sona in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Sona against Gnar matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gnar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Gnar. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Sona usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Gnar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Gnar
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Who is Better, Sona or Gnar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when playing against Gnar, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes a good counter to Gnar.
While Sona does have a higher winrate compared to Gnar, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Sona into Gnar.
Moreover, Sona has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gnar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sona vs Gnar matchups, Sona is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Sona is a decent counter to Gnar. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to counter Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona often accumulates a lot less CS as Gnar. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Sona versus Gnar build consist of Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Gnar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 51.5% battling Gnar with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Gnar as Sona, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Sona vs Gnar LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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