Taliyah vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Taliyah
based on 976 Taliyah vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Sona Counter Build
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Core Taliyah Items
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Guide to Countering Sona as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Sona
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Advice to Win Against Sona
Spread out when you see Sona so she can't make your entire team dance.
Kill Sona first, as she will heal up her team if left alone for too long.
Taliyah vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Taliyah in LoL
The stats shown here feature some strategic Taliyah against Sona matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between these two champs. For instance, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Taliyah normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Sona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Sona
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Sona?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when trying to fight Sona, with a 46.1% win rate. Therefore, Taliyah makes a poor counter for Sona.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate than Sona, when they face off with one another, Taliyah also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Taliyah into Sona.
Additionally, Taliyah also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Taliyah is a terribly counter to Sona. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Taliyah against Sona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Taliyah
Additional Information for Taliyah Players
How We Calculated Our Taliyah vs Sona Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Taliyah to counter Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually racks up much more CS as Sona. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Taliyah versus Sona build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Taliyah combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Sona than with most other typical builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average winrate of 46.1% when countering Sona with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Sona as Taliyah, Taliyah players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Taliyah vs Sona matchups, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.1% winrate overall.
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