Leona with Sona
How to Synergize Leona and Sona
based on 55 Leona with Sona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Sona Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Sona
Tips for Playing as Leona with Sona
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Leona in LoL
The Leona Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sona helps Leona perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona plays on the same team as Sona, she gets a big jump in her complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Sona provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Sona.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Sona on the same side, she often receives significantly more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Sona does a poor job of covering Leona in team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Sona
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Is Leona better when played alongside Sona?
There is no top champion pairing for Leona that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Sona is a relatively poor companion for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, she drops their win rate by -1.3% to 50.9%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Leona and Sona that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Sona allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by aligning Leona and Sona together, you may not be giving your side enough attack damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Sona ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona in order to synergize with Sona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Leona and Sona synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Bloodsong. When Leona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Sona than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Sona with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Tenacity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Sona with Leona are shown for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.