Sona vs Tahm Kench
How to Beat Tahm Kench as Sona
based on 2,116 Sona vs Tahm Kench matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Tahm Kench Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tahm Kench as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Tahm Kench
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 Tahm Kench
When you see Tahm Kench use the shield from Thick Skin, remember that he just opted out of a good deal of healing. He will also not accumulate new gray health until Thick Skin comes off cooldown. Use this to your advantage!
Watch out for Kench's Abyssal Dive - you can cancel it's channel with immobilizing crowd control effects.
Sona vs Tahm Kench Counter Stats
How to Counter Tahm Kench with Sona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several influential Sona vs. Tahm Kench matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Tahm Kench. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Tahm Kench. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sona and Tahm Kench
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Who is Better, Sona or Tahm Kench?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sona usually loses when facing off against Tahm Kench, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes a bad counter to Tahm Kench.
While Sona does have a lower winrate compared to Tahm Kench, when they face off with one another, Sona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Sona into Tahm Kench.
Additionally, Sona has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. 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 in League of Legends, in Sona vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Sona is a trash counter for Tahm Kench. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sona against Tahm Kench.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona to counter Tahm Kench during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Tahm Kench. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sona versus Tahm Kench build consist of Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Sona incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Tahm Kench than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 47.8% battling Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Tahm Kench as Sona, you 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 rune combinations players picked for Sona vs Tahm Kench battles, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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