Sona with Garen
How to Synergize Sona and Garen
based on 3,312 Sona with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Garen Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Garen
Tips for Playing as Sona with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Sona Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Sona in LoL
The Sona Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Garen helps Sona perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona tries to synergize with Garen, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This could indicate that Garen provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Garen.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Garen on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Sona during teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Garen
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Is Sona better when played alongside Garen?
There is no one best companion for Sona that will always be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Garen is a below average ally for Sona. By playing on the same team as Sona, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 48.9%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Sona and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means Sona players must be cautious when enlisting Garen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Sona players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Sona and Garen together, you will not be granting your other teammates much AP. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Sona in order to work well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Sona and Garen synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Sona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Garen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cut Down, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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