Shaco with Sona
How to Synergize Shaco and Sona
based on 2,249 Shaco with Sona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Sona Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Sona Counter Build
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Sona
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Sona
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Sona helps Shaco perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco is an ally to Sona, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Sona doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played with Sona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sona.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Sona on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Sona does a poor job of covering Shaco during team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Sona
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Sona?
There is no ideal ally for Shaco that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Sona is a relatively poor teammate for Shaco. By playing on the same team as Shaco, she drops their win rate by -1.4% to 48.0%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Shaco and Sona that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Sona has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Sona teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Shaco and Sona together, you probably will not be giving your side much engage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Sona ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shaco to work well with Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Shaco and Sona synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Shaco bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Sona than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing alongside Sona with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Shaco and Sona pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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