Sona with Irelia
How to Synergize Sona and Irelia
based on 2,473 Sona with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Sona with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Sona Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Sona in LoL
The Sona Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Irelia helps Sona perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is an ally to Irelia, she observes a little decrease in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Irelia does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Irelia 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 with Irelia.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Irelia on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Sona during teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Irelia
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Is Sona better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Sona that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Irelia is a very typical teammate for Sona. By playing on the same side as Sona, she lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 50.2%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Sona and Irelia that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Irelia has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means you must be careful when finding Irelia comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by pairing Sona and Irelia together, you probably will not be providing your team much protection for burst damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sona to pair well with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Sona and Irelia synergy build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Sona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Irelia than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sona had an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Irelia with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating 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 combinations we have analyed for Sona and Irelia pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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