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.
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
The Sona Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Taric helps Sona perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona is an ally to Taric, she sees a great improvement in her full damage output. This may indicate that Taric helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Taric on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Taric. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Taric.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Taric on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Taric does a decent job of protecting Sona in team fights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Sona that will always be her top ally. However, Taric is a good companion for Sona. By being on the same team as Sona, he improves their win rate by 2.7% to 53.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Sona and Taric that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Taric has a lower difficulty than Sona. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Taric comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Sona players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Sona and Taric together, you probably will not be providing your team much AD. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Taric ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to work well with Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Sona and Taric synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Taric than with many other common builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 53.1% when playing alongside Taric with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Sona and Taric pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Taric with Sona are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.