Sona with Shaco
How to Synergize Sona and Shaco
based on 2,249 Sona with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Shaco Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Sona with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Sona Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Sona in LoL
The Sona Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shaco helps Sona perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona plays on the same team as Shaco, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Shaco provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Shaco on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Shaco. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Shaco.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Shaco on the same side, she typically takes more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Sona during teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Shaco
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Is Sona better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no perfect companion for Sona that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Shaco is a below average companion for Sona. By being on the same side as Sona, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 48.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Sona and Shaco that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Shaco has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means you must be very careful when finding Shaco allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Sona and Shaco together, you probably will not be granting your team much protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sona to synergize with Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Sona and Shaco synergy build include Redemption, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Shaco than with many other common item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Shaco with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against 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 chose for Sona and Shaco pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Shaco with Sona are shown for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.