Veigar vs Sona
How to Beat Sona as Veigar
based on 3,076 Veigar vs Sona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Sona Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sona as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Sona
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Sona Counter Stats
How to Counter Sona with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several vital Veigar versus Sona counter statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Veigar normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Sona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Sona
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Who is Better, Veigar or Sona?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Veigar usually wins when playing against Sona, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes a good counter to Sona.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate than Sona, when on opposite teams, Veigar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Sonaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Sona matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter to Sona. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Sona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to counter Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar typically racks up much more CS relative to Sona. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Veigar versus Sona build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Sona than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 51.5% when countering Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Sona as Veigar, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Veigar vs Sona matchups, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Sona as Veigar are displayed for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.