Sona with Graves
How to Synergize Sona and Graves
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Sona Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Graves
Tips for Playing as Sona with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Sona Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Sona in LoL
The Sona Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Sona perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is an ally to Graves, she gets a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This may signal that Graves does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Graves on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Sona in teamfights.
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Is Sona better when played alongside Graves?
There is no ideal companion for Sona that will always be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Graves is a decent ally for Sona. By playing on the same side as Sona, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 51.6%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Sona and Graves that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Sona. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Graves allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Sona and Graves together, you may not be giving your other allies very much engage potential. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Graves teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 in order to work well with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Sona and Graves synergy build consist of Bloodsong, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona included at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 51.6% helping carry Graves with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Revitalize, and Conditioning runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Sona and Graves pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Graves with Sona are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.