Sona with Zed
How to Synergize Sona and Zed
based on 3,336 Sona with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sona Zed Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Zed
Tips for Playing as Sona with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Sona Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Sona in LoL
The Sona Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Sona perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona is paired with Zed, she gets a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Zed 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 alongside Zed 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 synergisticly with Zed.
Additionally, when Sona plays with Zed on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Sona in teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Zed
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Is Sona better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top champion pairing for Sona that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, overall, Zed is a not very good companion for Sona. By locking into the same side as Sona, he lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 48.5%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Sona and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means you must be very careful when lining up Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, Sona players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Sona and Zed together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of tankyness. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Sona and Zed synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Zed than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cut Down, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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