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.
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
The Sona Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 Ryze. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ryze helps Sona perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is an ally to Ryze, she gets a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Ryze doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Ryze on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Ryze.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Ryze on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Ryze does a poor job of covering Sona during team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Sona that will always be her top ally. Yet, Ryze is a very bad teammate for Sona. By locking into the same team as Sona, he drops their win rate by -7.5% to 42.9%. This signals that there is a very bad bond between Sona and Ryze that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means Sona players should be very careful when lining up Ryze comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, Sona players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Sona and Ryze together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much engage potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Ryze ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Sona to work well with Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Sona and Ryze synergy build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Echoes of Helia. When Sona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Ryze than with many other common item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 42.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Ryze with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Sona players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 42.9% winrate overall.
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