Sona vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Sona
based on 2,608 Sona vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Karma
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 Karma
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Karma's Soulflare erupts for bonus damage in the area in which it's placed. React quickly and escape the circle to avoid taking heavy damage.
Karma's passive lowers her Mantra cooldown when she hits enemy champions with abilities and basic attacks. Deny her from getting free hits on you.
Sona vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Sona in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some important Sona versus Karma counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Karma..
Sona typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Karma. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Karma
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Who is Better, Sona or Karma?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sona usually wins when playing against Karma, with a 52.1% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a good counter to Karma.
While Sona does have a higher win rate than Karma, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Sona into Karma.
Additionally, Sona has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Karma matchups, Sona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Sona is a good counter for Karma. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona to counter Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona usually picks up less CS as Karma. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Sona versus Karma build include Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Karma than with many other common builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 52.1% battling Karma with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Karma as Sona, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Sona vs Karma fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
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