Aphelios with Sona
How to Synergize Aphelios and Sona
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Aphelios Sona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Sona
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Sona
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Sona Will Play
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.
Aphelios Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aphelios sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sona helps Aphelios perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is an ally to Sona, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Sona does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sona.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Sona on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Sona does a decent job of covering Aphelios in teamfights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Sona?
There is no top champion pairing for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Sona is a very typical ally for Aphelios. By being on the same team as Aphelios, she increases their win rate by 0.3% to 48.9%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Aphelios and Sona that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Sona has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Sona allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by grouping Aphelios and Sona together, you probably will not be providing your side enough engage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Sona ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to synergize with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Aphelios and Sona synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Sona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Aphelios players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Aphelios and Sona pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.
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