Sona with Xerath
How to Synergize Sona and Xerath
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Sona Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Sona with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Sona Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Sona in LoL
The Sona Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xerath helps Sona perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona is paired with Xerath, she gets a small increase in her full damage output. This change may indicate that Xerath supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xerath.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Xerath on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Sona during team fights.
Synergies between Sona and Xerath
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Is Sona better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no one best companion for Sona that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, Xerath is a pretty good ally for Sona. By playing on the same team as Sona, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 52.0%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Sona and Xerath that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Xerath has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means Sona players need to be very careful when enlisting Xerath comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Sona and Xerath together, you probably will not be giving your team enough cover. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 work well with Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Sona and Xerath synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Xerath than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 52.0% when playing alongside Xerath with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing 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. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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