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Playing Against Sona
SupportPatch 16.2.1
What They Do
Sona is a scaling aura-based enchanter who provides constant poke, healing, and movement speed. She starts weak but becomes an urf-mode utility machine late game due to (Accelerando) granting her massive ability haste. She wants to poke you with to stack her passive and then win teamfights with a well-placed .
Abilities (What to Watch For)
| Ability | What You'll See | What It Means For You |
|---|---|---|
| A bar under her mana showing 3 stacks; her instrument glows when ready. | Her next auto-attack deals bonus damage and a special effect based on her last cast. She also gains permanent basic ability haste through Accelerando by using and effectively. | |
| Two blue bolts that track nearby targets. | Auto-targeted poke that hits the two closest enemies. It creates an aura that makes her ally's next attack deal bonus magic damage. If she's walking up, she's looking to + you. | |
| A green wave that heals followed by a green aura zone. | Heals Sona and her most wounded ally. The aura provides a shield to any ally who touches it. This is her primary survival tool but has a high mana cost early. | |
| A purple aura zone around Sona. | Provides a flat movement speed boost to Sona and any allies who enter the aura. Used for kiting, chasing, or rotating around the map quickly. | |
| A wide, rectangular yellow shockwave. | A massive AoE stun that forces everyone hit to dance. This is her only hard CC and is often used with Flash to catch teams off guard. |
Respect
- !Late-game scaling→Once she caps her Accelerando stacks, her basic abilities have almost no cooldown. If the game goes past 30 minutes, she provides infinite shields and heals.
- !Flash + engage→Sona can instantly turn a fight or catch your entire team in a choke point with a surprise .
- !empowered attacks→Depending on her last spell, her passive auto can reduce your damage (W), slow you (E), or just burst you (Q).
- !Level 1-2 poke→Her + combo deals surprising damage early. If you let her poke you for free, you'll be too low to all-in at level 3.
Punish
- +Early game mana pool→Her costs a massive amount of mana. Force her to heal by trading frequently, and she will go out of mana before you.
- +is on cooldown→Without her ultimate, she has zero hard peel. All-in her immediately if you see her miss or waste .
- +Extreme squishiness→Sona has some of the lowest base HP in the game. Any hard CC (hook, root) usually results in her death before she can even press .
- +Warding solo→Sona is slow and fragile. Catch her in the river when she goes to ward; she cannot duel most champions alone.
Laning Tips
- •Pick hard engage champions like Leona, Nautilus, or Blitzcrank. One hook onto Sona is a guaranteed kill or Flash.
- •Do not pick 'poke' lanes against her. Her sustain is designed to win wars of attrition; you must burst her down instead.
- •Focus Sona, not the ADC. She provides the heals and shields; if she dies first, her ADC is defenseless.
- •Watch the stacks under her HP bar. If she has 2 stacks, her next ability will prime her empowered auto-attack.
- •Stand behind your minions to avoid her ADC's follow-up, but remember bolts go through minions.
- •Buy an early Executioner's Calling or Oblivion Orb. Healing reduction guts her effectiveness in lane.
Teamfight Warning
- ⚠Do not clump together in jungle corridors; you are begging for a 5-man .
- ⚠Assassins must prioritize Sona. If she lives for more than 5 seconds in a fight, her team's effective HP doubles.
- ⚠Banshee's Veil or Edge of Night are great items to prevent her from stopping your engage with .
- ⚠If she hits you with a green-empowered auto-attack, you deal significantly less damage. Check your debuffs.
- ⚠She will use to help her team kite back. You need hard CC or multiple dashes to stick to her carries.
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