Sona with Gnar
How to Synergize Sona and Gnar
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Sona Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Sona with Gnar
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 Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Sona Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Sona in LoL
The Sona Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Sona perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is an ally to Gnar, she observes a small increase in her total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Gnar provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Gnar on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Gnar does a poor job of covering Sona in teamfights.
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Is Sona better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Sona that will always be her best teammate. Yet, Gnar is a not very good ally for Sona. By locking into the same side as Sona, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 49.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Sona and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means you need to be cautious when finding Gnar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Sona players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by aligning Sona and Gnar together, you probably will not be giving your team enough engage potential. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona to work well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Sona and Gnar synergy build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Gnar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 49.3% helping carry Gnar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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