Sona with Orianna
How to Synergize Sona and Orianna
based on 1,130 Sona with Orianna pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Orianna Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Orianna
Tips for Playing as Sona with Orianna
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 Orianna Will Play
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Sona Orianna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Orianna as Sona in LoL
The Sona Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Orianna helps Sona perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is paired with Orianna, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change could signal that Orianna supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Orianna on the same side, 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 with Orianna.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Orianna on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Orianna does a poor job of covering Sona in team fights.
Synergies between Sona and Orianna
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Is Sona better when played alongside Orianna?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Sona that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Orianna is a very bad ally for Sona. By locking into the same team as Sona, she lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 47.3%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Sona and Orianna that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Orianna allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Sona players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Sona and Orianna together, you may not be granting your team a lot of engage potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Orianna ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sona to synergize with Orianna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Sona and Orianna synergy build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona bought at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Orianna than with most other common item sets. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 47.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Orianna with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Orianna with Sona are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.