Kayn with Sona
How to Synergize Kayn and Sona
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Kayn Sona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Sona
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Sona
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sona helps Kayn perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is paired with Sona, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Sona does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played alongside Sona on the same side, 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 with Sona.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Sona on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Sona does a decent job of protecting Kayn during teamfights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Sona?
There is no ideal ally for Kayn that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Sona is a good companion for Kayn. By being on the same team as Kayn, she increases their win rate by 1.4% to 50.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a good strategic relationship between Kayn and Sona that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Sona has a much lower diffuclty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be cautious when lining up Sona comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Kayn players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Kayn and Sona together, you may not be giving your other allies very much protection for burst damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Sona ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayn to pair well with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Kayn and Sona synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Kayn incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Sona than with many other common builds. In fact, Kayn boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when playing alongside Sona with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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