Sona vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Sona
based on 4,303 Sona vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Hwei Counter Build
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Core Sona Items
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Sona vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Sona in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several significant Sona versus Hwei matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Hwei’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Hwei. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Hwei. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Hwei
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Sona or Hwei?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when trying to fight Hwei, with a 54.1% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes a great counter for Hwei.
While Sona does have a much higher winrate than Hwei, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Sona into Hwei.
Moreover, Sona has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hwei. 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Hwei matchups, Sona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Sona is a great counter for Hwei. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sona against Hwei.
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How We Calculated Our Sona vs Hwei Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sona to counter Hwei during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Hwei. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sona versus Hwei build consist of Dream Maker, Echoes of Helia, and Dawncore. When Sona included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Hwei than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 54.1% battling Hwei with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Hwei as Sona, Sona players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Revitalize, and Conditioning runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Sona vs Hwei clashes, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Hwei as Sona are displayed for every ranked division. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.