Sona with Karma
How to Synergize Sona and Karma
based on 665 Sona with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Karma Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Karma
Tips for Playing as Sona with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Sona Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Sona in LoL
The Sona Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 Karma. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Karma helps Sona perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is an ally to Karma, she gets a little increase in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Karma provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Karma on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Karma.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Karma on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Karma does a decent job of protecting Sona during teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Karma
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Is Sona better when played alongside Karma?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Sona that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, Karma is a very bad companion for Sona. By being on the same team as Sona, she decreases their win rate by -5.0% to 45.4%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Sona and Karma that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means Sona players need to be very careful when finding Karma teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Sona and Karma together, you probably will not be providing your team enough AD. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Karma teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to synergize with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Sona and Karma synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Karma than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 45.4% helping carry Karma with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Sona players 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 combinations players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.4% win rate overall.
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