Sona with Alistar
How to Synergize Sona and Alistar
based on 93 Sona with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Alistar Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Sona Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Sona and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Sona with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Sona Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Sona in LoL
The Sona Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Alistar helps Sona perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona tries to synergize with Alistar, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Alistar helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Alistar on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Alistar does a decent job of covering Sona during team fights.
Synergies between Sona and Alistar
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Sona better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best companion for Sona that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, Alistar is a very bad companion for Sona. By being on the same team as Sona, he decreases their win rate by -5.2% to 45.2%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Sona and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Alistar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Sona players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by grouping Sona and Alistar together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Sona
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Sona Players
How We Calculated Our Sona Alistar Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to work well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Sona and Alistar synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 45.2% when playing alongside Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Sona players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Sona and Alistar pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.2% winrate overall.
If you need to see Sona with Alistar cooperations tips and stats for a an individual division rank, please choose one from the selection menu shown above. If viewing for the first time, the stats and tips and suggestions shown are calculated using every round with data with both champs.