Sona with Gangplank
How to Synergize Sona and Gangplank
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Sona Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Sona with Gangplank
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 Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Sona Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Sona in LoL
The Sona Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gangplank 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 Gangplank, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This change could signal that Gangplank supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Gangplank on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Sona in team fights.
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Is Sona better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Sona that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Gangplank is a below average companion for Sona. By locking into the same side as Sona, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 48.6%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Sona and Gangplank that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means you should be very careful when finding Gangplank allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by pairing Sona and Gangplank together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of engage potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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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 Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Sona and Gangplank synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Gangplank than with most other common builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 48.6% helping carry Gangplank with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Sona and Gangplank pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Gangplank with Sona are given for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.