Sona vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Sona
based on 784 Sona vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Ryze Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Sona Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Sona vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Sona in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several strategic Sona versus Ryze counter statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ryze. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Sona often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Ryze. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Ryze
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Who is Better, Sona or Ryze?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sona usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ryze, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes an ok counter to Ryze.
While Sona does have a higher win rate than Ryze, when facing one another, Sona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sona into Ryze.
Additionally, Sona has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sona vs Ryze matchups, Sona is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Sona is a decent counter to Ryze. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Ryze.
Other Champion Matchups Against Sona
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How We Calculated Our Sona vs Ryze Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona to counter Ryze 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 mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona often racks up a lot less CS as Ryze. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Sona versus Ryze build consist of Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Ryze than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 50.1% when playing against Ryze with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Ryze 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 runes we have analyed for Sona vs Ryze clashes, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Sona are given for every ranked division. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.