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.
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
The Sona Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Yasuo helps Sona perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sona plays on the same team as Yasuo, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Yasuo provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Yasuo on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Yasuo. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Yasuo.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Yasuo on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of protecting Sona during team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Sona that will always be her #1 teammate. Yet, Yasuo is a pretty good companion for Sona. By being on the same team as Sona, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 51.5%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Sona and Yasuo that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Sona. That means you need to be cautious when finding Yasuo comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Sona and Yasuo together, you may not be giving your other allies very much tankyness. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Yasuo ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to work well with Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Sona and Yasuo synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona combined at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Yasuo than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 51.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Yasuo with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Revitalize, and Conditioning runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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