Sona vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Sona
based on 5,589 Sona vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Lucian
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 Lucian
Lucian cannot change the aim of The Culling. Take advantage of this by avoiding the angle of the bullets.
Lucian has strong burst, but little sustained damage.
Piercing Light does not give Lucian extra Attack Range. He still needs to find a target in range to line up his shot. Avoid Piercing Light by anticipating the angle Lucian will choose.
Sona vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Sona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several vital Sona versus Lucian counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lucian. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Sona often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Lucian. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Lucian
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Who is Better, Sona or Lucian?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually wins when taking on Lucian, with a 52.8% win rate. As a result, Sona makes a good counter for Lucian.
While Sona does have a higher win rate compared to Lucian, when on opposite teams, Sona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Sona into Lucian.
Furthermore, Sona has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Lucian 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 an above average counter for Lucian. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to counter Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona usually gets a lot less CS compared to Lucian. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Sona versus Lucian build consist of Redemption, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Lucian than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 52.8% battling Lucian with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Lucian as Sona, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Revitalize, and Conditioning runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Sona vs Lucian fights, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lucian as Sona are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.