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.
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
The Sona Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Olaf helps Sona perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona tries to synergize with Olaf, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This difference may indicate that Olaf does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Olaf. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Olaf.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Olaf on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Sona in team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Sona that will no matter what be her best ally. Yet, Olaf is a very typical companion for Sona. By playing on the same team as Sona, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 50.8%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Sona and Olaf that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Sona. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Olaf allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Sona and Olaf together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of cover. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Sona in order to synergize with Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Sona and Olaf synergy build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Olaf than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 50.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Olaf with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating 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. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Olaf with Sona are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.