Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several strategic Twitch against Sona matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Twitch’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Twitch may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Twitch often has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Sona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Twitch usually loses when taking on Sona, with a 47.6% win rate. Therefore, Twitch makes a poor counter for Sona.
While Twitch does have a lower win rate compared to Sona, when on opposite teams, Twitch also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Twitch into Sona.
Furthermore, Twitch has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Twitch vs Sona matchups, Sona is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Twitch is a bad counter for Sona. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Twitch against Sona.
To truly master Twitch to counter Sona 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Twitch typically accumulates much more CS relative to Sona. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Twitch versus Sona build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Twitch bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Sona than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Twitch had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing against Sona with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Sona as Twitch, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Twitch vs Sona counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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