Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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 Orianna 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, Orianna sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sona helps Orianna perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna plays on the same team as Sona, she sees a small increase in her total damage output. This difference may signal that Sona supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played together with Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Sona. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Sona.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Sona on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Sona does a poor job of covering Orianna during team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Orianna that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Sona is a very typical companion for Orianna. By being on the same team as Orianna, she drops their win rate by -0.2% to 47.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Orianna and Sona that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Sona has a much lower diffuclty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Sona comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Orianna players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Orianna and Sona together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of protection for burst damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Sona ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to pair well with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Orianna and Sona synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Sona than with most other typical builds. In fact, Orianna boasted an average win rate of 47.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Sona with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Sona with Orianna are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.