Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sona helps Lissandra perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lissandra tries to synergize with Sona, she observes a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Sona helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played alongside Sona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Sona.
Additionally, when Lissandra plays with Sona on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Sona does a decent job of covering Lissandra in team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Lissandra that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, Sona is a decent teammate for Lissandra. By being on the same side as Lissandra, she increases their win rate by 1.6% to 51.1%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Lissandra and Sona that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Lissandra. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Sona comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Lissandra players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Lissandra and Sona together, you may not be granting your other allies very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Sona ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Lissandra to pair well with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Lissandra and Sona synergy build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra bought at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Sona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 51.1% helping carry Sona with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Lissandra and Sona pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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