Sona vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Sona
based on 976 Sona vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sona vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Sona vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Sona
Tips for Playing as Sona against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Sona vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Sona in LoL
The stats shown here show some significant Sona versus Taliyah counter stats that may help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Sona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Taliyah. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Sona often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sona and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Sona or Taliyah?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sona usually wins when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 53.9% win rate. Therefore, Sona makes a great counter for Taliyah.
While Sona does have a higher winrate than Taliyah, when facing one another, Sona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Sona into Taliyah.
Additionally, Sona has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sona vs Taliyah 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 team members during team fights.
Sona is a great counter to Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Sona against Taliyah.
Other Champion Matchups Against Sona
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sona in order to counter Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sona often picks up a lot less CS compared to Taliyah. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Sona versus Taliyah build consist of Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Taliyah than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 53.9% battling Taliyah with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Taliyah as Sona, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Sona vs Taliyah LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.9% winrate overall.
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