Sona with Leona
How to Synergize Sona and Leona
based on 55 Sona with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Leona Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Leona
Tips for Playing as Sona with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Sona Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Sona in LoL
The Sona Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Leona helps Sona perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona plays on the same team as Leona, she gets a great improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Leona helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Leona on the same team, she often receives significantly more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Leona does a poor job of covering Sona during teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Leona
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Is Sona better when played alongside Leona?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Sona that will always be her #1 synergy. However, Leona is a very typical companion for Sona. By locking into the same side as Sona, she increases their win rate by 0.5% to 50.9%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Sona and Leona that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Sona. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Leona allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Sona players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by pairing Sona and Leona together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Leona ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Additional Information for Sona Players
How We Calculated Our Sona Leona Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sona in order to pair well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Sona and Leona synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Leona than with most other common item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Leona with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Sona and Leona pairings, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Leona with Sona are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.