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Recommended Items
Runes: master+ 1v9 rune
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Sorcery
Resolve
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+2% Movement Speed
+10-180 Bonus Health
Spells:
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Exhaust
Flash
Items
Ability Order general
Power Chord (PASSIVE)
Sona Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Threats
Synergies
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Ideal Synergies
Yasuo
windwall too op
Ashe
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Ashe
Champion Build Guide
Overview
Welcome to the Sona Buvelles guide. Hope you guys can get something out of this guide, become a Sona main or become a better Sona main.
Nanners owo / AD Nannies Pref
guide still in progress as long as League of Legends is a game, I will maintain it once a year.
I recently started making Sona tutorial videos on youtube, make sure to sub to me, which will greatly motivates me and help me maintain full-time status. Thanks~
Feel free to reach out to me for question in stream chat, I'm always streaming and always there for any additional questions.
I recently started making Sona tutorial videos on youtube, make sure to sub to me, which will greatly motivates me and help me maintain full-time status. Thanks~
Feel free to reach out to me for question in stream chat, I'm always streaming and always there for any additional questions.
1. introduction |
2. pros and cons |
3. runes and summoner spells |
4. items |
5. matchups |
6. hidden techniques |
Why Sona
"Attractive" - consensualclown the Sona rank 1 egrill in s7
Sona abilities explain
The ability descriptions are from mobafire and Sona wiki, how to use section is original.
Sona, the Maven of Strings |
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If you want more detailed numbers on her ap scalings and stats per level, this redirects to Sona wiki, it explains what her abilities does really well.
Pros and Cons
cc = crowd control
+ easy to play + infinite healing and shieldings + high mobility for team + outscales most supports + reduces enemy damage (unique) + teamfight hyper carry, so games are won more easily + easy to comeback and keep lead No other champion can consistently provide high ally healing, shields, and self healing as Sona , once you get ahead, it becomes impossible for the enemy to kill your allies. Additionally, with , your team can roam and rotate on the map a few seconds faster, and can easily chase down enemies. Most of her abilities are auto-target, so you don't need to worry about missing them and feel overwhelmed. |
- laning phase is hard, since it's a 2v2 - no non-r cc, so you can't punish Yuumi Nunu & Willump Rammus, or help leash scuttle - very squishy early on - need time to scale - pre level 5, abilities are weak and high mana cost - need at least 1 human on team Since I'm introducing an utility Sona guide, it's quite coinflipping to have at least 1 player on the team that can 2v8 with you in low elo, in the worst case in scenorio. Also Sona has no cc and is very squishy, most ADC players don't want to play with her, so you will have an unpleasant chat experience. |
Runes
PRIMARY RUNE
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SECONDARY RUNE
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FLAT STATS RUNE
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✦ Arcane Comet: is a good poking rune and AP sona rune to go, if your team is lack of AP damage, pair well with Zaz’Zak’s Realmspike |
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✦ Celerity can help you go bootless and dodge abilities ✦ Absolute Focus gives you more lane damage and more heals later on, since you should always be full health as Sona |
✦ Gathering Storm scales well, if you just feel like afk and scale, and you can ping it when people start ff votes *COPE* |
SECONDARY RUNE
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✦ Bone Plating: you can go it if enemy bot has a very strong all in 2v2s between lvl 1-3, such as Draven and Pyke, and they can't easily proc Bone Plating unless they are all in |
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SECONDARY RUNE
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✦ Magical Footwear: is also an option |
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FLAT STATS RUNE
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✦ Health Scaling: with two Health Scaling, you get more room of survivability, people often underestimate how broken flat health stats are |
✦ Movement Speed: people often walk back as you walk towards them, so extra movement speed helps you proc Hymn of Valor on enemies, without getting into their auto range, pairs well with Celerity |
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Summoner spells
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Builds
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Supp Item choices explanation
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When to go what item path
check op.ggs at the beginning of the game, if anyone have an extremely high win rate, or above average winrate on a champion, observe them and build items around them if they are gonna be the ones carryingPlease remember that game situations also influence mini component building orders, those are just ideal build examples. Scenario 1: - ✦jungle/mid/top are AD bruisers, so like 2-3 people on your team will benefit from on-hit buffs ✦when you feel like enemy team might first item , hence first iteming is bad
♥This combination provides an insane amount of utility and aoe Heal/Shields for AD teammates, helps them carry
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gives insane early game damage and extra movement speed, so you can skip upgrading
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have no extra bonus health stats/big shield unlike
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Scenario 2: - ✦when you feel like enemy team won't first item , hence first iteming is good ✦Like when your teammates doesn't have shields, so that you are the only one on your team with shields, then building will bait someone to buy , if not then you get a giant second health bar shield ✦when you have an AP adc or your team doesn't benefit much out of , but with 2-3 AP champs that will significantly benefit from ✦Or when you know your AP teammates are gonna be the ones carrying Scenario 3: - ✦when you feel like enemy team will first item , or have some sort of shield cut, hence first iteming is bad ✦when you are laning with an AD champ, have an AD jungler or mid laner that benefits a bit from Ardent Censer ✦when you also have AP teammates that will significantly benefit from Staff of Flowing Water
♥This combination gives you both early damage with ADC and bonus AP with AP teammates
♥cheap but the best two items on Sona
♥Makes you extra squishy, because you don't have extra base health stats from Moonstone Renewer or extra shield from Seraph's Embrace
Scenario 4: - ✦when you are the only AP on your team, this is kinda fun ✦note that doesn't stack with , so your options are Zaz’Zak’s Realmspike TBA |
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Matchups - enchanters
✦ tl&dr for enchanter matchups: 1. don’t walk into them and die lvl 1-4, or lose too much health; 2. be able to manipulate max Q and poke them whenever Sona Q is up, to earn gold, Power Chord stacks, and Manaflow Band stacks; 3. Don’t spam W for only health regen (don’t run out of mana), make use of the shield part; then Sona can outscale them at lvl 5 with 2 points in W ✦ Generally you take when vs enchanter supports, since they mostly sustain in lane, and don’t do enough burst damage to kill you from full health ✦ If enemy walks toward you, walk back and press Q , so their autos and abilities don’t hit you; your Q out range most of their abilities ✦ One common rule for supports: try to auto the minions with ADC to get lvl 2 first or at the same time, you auto second wave of melee minions that is not close to dying ✦ lvl 2 formula = 1 wave + 3 melees ✦ In lane positioning video, by Corejj. Recommend watching the series. Sona is a support, basic support rules apply to her. ✦ And you can probably find numerous warding position videos by pro supports, I will focus more on Sona ✦ ALSO, DO NOT BUY Control Ward. It’s a waste of gold. THE CYCLE OF WASTING 75G AND WASTE ANOTHER 75G TO PLACE THEM IN RANDOM SPOTS IS A CAPITALISM SCAM. It's better for you to get your ******** items and provide more utility than them. ✦ ALSO, DO NOT BUY Control Ward. It’s a waste of gold. THE CYCLE OF WASTING 75G AND WASTE ANOTHER 75G TO PLACE THEM IN RANDOM SPOTS IS A CAPITALISM SCAM. It's better for you to get your ******** items and provide more utility than them. ✦ ALSO, DO NOT BUY Control Ward. It’s a waste of gold. THE CYCLE OF WASTING 75G AND WASTE ANOTHER 75G TO PLACE THEM IN RANDOM SPOTS IS A CAPITALISM SCAM. It's better for you to get your ******** items and provide more utility than them.
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Matchups - engages & roaming
From writing the enchanter matchups, I realized that all the enchanter matchups are similar. So writing all the details that you should come up with from playing those champions and Sona is a waste of my time. And engage support matchups are the same as well. I currently don’t have enough time to write out all the engage matchups for now, may or may not add later when I’m waiting in the queue. So here is common rules for all:✦ with the change of supp items, you can total just use World Atlas stacks on minions instead of trying to poke and die, which is a significant buff for Sona ✦ take Bone Plating if you feel insecure early game ✦ if you think they might cheese lvl 1, Pyke Thresh Nautilus Blitzcrank, ward bot lane first bush lvl 1 before minion spawns, so you can see if they are cheesing ✦ get lvl 2 at the same time or faster, if you are nowhere near lvl 2, ping your ADC off and walk back ✦ stay behind minions at all times if vs hook supports; walk back, out of their hook range if no minions ✦ Dodging their core cc / hook ability is also key, good luck !(* ̄( ̄ *) ✦ If enemy walks toward you, walk back and press Q , so their autos and abilities don’t hit you; your Q out range most of their abilities ✦ One common rule for supports: try to auto the minions with ADC to get lvl 2 first or at the same time, you auto second wave of melee minions that is not close to dying ✦ lvl 2 formula = 1 wave + 3 melees ✦ In lane positioning video, by Corejj. Recommend watching the series. Sona is a support, basic support rules apply to her. ✦ And you can probably find numerous warding position videos by pro supports, I will focus more on Sona ✦ ALSO, DO NOT BUY CONTROL WARDS. It’s a waste of gold. You cannot defend vs engage supports. ✦ ALSO, DO NOT BUY CONTROL WARDS. It’s a waste of gold. You cannot defend vs engage supports. ✦ ALSO, DO NOT BUY CONTROL WARDS. It’s a waste of gold. You cannot defend vs engage supports. roaming✦ ideally, you stay in lane to scale and spam ping when enemy support is missing ✦ Sona is a no-cc caster minion before lvl 6, don’t roam till lvl 6 ✦ unless your ADC pushed bot lane wave in, reset, and you have nowhere to go for a bit; can go mid lane, poke a bit, and get some stacks gold, and go back to bot lane ✦ or when mid laner is dead, you can go catch the wave if your ADC pushed bot lane wave in, reset, and you have nowhere to go for a bit ✦ walk back in the safest path possible, unless you know where enemy jungler is ✦ you want to sit in a lane during laning phase, instead of walking in the river |
matchups - mages
From writing the enchanter matchups, I realized that all the enchanter matchups are similar. So writing all the details that you should come up with from playing those champions and Sona is a waste of my time. And mage support matchups are the same as well. I currently don’t have enough time to write out all the mage matchups for now, may or may not add later when I’m waiting in the queue. So here is common rules for all:✦ take Summon Aery, Guardian is easily proc by them ✦ get lvl 2 at the same time or faster, if you are nowhere near lvl 2, ping your ADC off and walk back ✦ Dodging their abilities is also key, good luck !(* ̄( ̄ *) ✦ most mages outrange your Q , but they help stack your W really well after you get ✦ Don’t spam W for health, unless you have , use the shield on W wisely vs mages ✦ If you want them to shove the wave, stand inside minion waves; if you feel you are getting shoved in, stand outside of minion waves; that way they can only pick one between poke and shove ✦ Early helps with dodging abilities a bit ✦ Can take one flat magic resistance if you think they will do more damage than enemy ADC ✦ Have 2 points in W at lvl 5 ✦ You can have more than 2 points in Q before finishing all points in W , but you need to have a few points in W for laning sustain as well ✦ One common rule for supports: try to auto the minions with ADC to get lvl 2 first or at the same time, you auto second wave of melee minions that is not close to dying ✦ lvl 2 formula = 1 wave + 3 melees ✦ In lane positioning video, by Corejj. Recommend watching the series. Sona is a support, basic support rules apply to her. ✦ And you can probably find numerous warding position videos by pro supports, I will focus more on Sona ✦ ALSO, DO NOT BUY CONTROL WARDS. It’s a waste of gold. You cannot defend vs engage supports. ✦ ALSO, DO NOT BUY CONTROL WARDS. It’s a waste of gold. You cannot defend vs engage supports. ✦ ALSO, DO NOT BUY CONTROL WARDS. It’s a waste of gold. You cannot defend vs engage supports. |
teamfight positioning & survival
✦ You stand around whoever is the strongest, in a range where your W
can reach them, but not as a front line, always as a back line
✦ Think carefully what enemy cc can reach you and result in your death with whose follow up, stay away and dodge the cc, hence you avoid the follow up damage; you can buy to keep your strongest member alive
✦ Think carefully what enemy damage can one shot you, buy defensive items to avoid oneshots; slowly heal back with W in a spot that you can still heal your team and not too far from your team
✦ You can R whoever AD assassin/bruiser is trying to kill to you (with high damage means they are vulnerable) to survive, if you won’t die to them, you don’t really need to R them
✦ You can W chord and whoever is trying to kill you or your backline with burst, kite tanks and bruisers with no slow immune with E chord
✦ You can also save R for whenever their strongest squishies are walking up, till like half into the teamfight when they start trying to clean up, no one would expect your R
✦ You can stand next to ADC, but don’t stand on top of them; at least not in a range where some AOE will hit both of you; it's okay that it hits one of you, but not both
✦ Think about enemy cc & damage ability range, that is the range between you and your ADC; that way, only one of you gets hit, which is a way of peeling
✦ Think carefully what enemy cc can reach you and result in your death with whose follow up, stay away and dodge the cc, hence you avoid the follow up damage; you can buy to keep your strongest member alive
✦ Think carefully what enemy damage can one shot you, buy defensive items to avoid oneshots; slowly heal back with W in a spot that you can still heal your team and not too far from your team
✦ You can R whoever AD assassin/bruiser is trying to kill to you (with high damage means they are vulnerable) to survive, if you won’t die to them, you don’t really need to R them
✦ You can W chord and whoever is trying to kill you or your backline with burst, kite tanks and bruisers with no slow immune with E chord
✦ You can also save R for whenever their strongest squishies are walking up, till like half into the teamfight when they start trying to clean up, no one would expect your R
✦ You can stand next to ADC, but don’t stand on top of them; at least not in a range where some AOE will hit both of you; it's okay that it hits one of you, but not both
✦ Think about enemy cc & damage ability range, that is the range between you and your ADC; that way, only one of you gets hit, which is a way of peeling
others
✦ help ADC cs under tower & cs under tower is good, I saw a lot of support players don't last hit; gold is good on Sona
✦ if you performed better than your enemy, you will eventually climb
✦ minion waves management is that you want it near your turret vs aggressive matchups; can slowly shove into enemy tower if vs Lulu/ Janna, but need to ward tri bush so that you don't die to ganks
✦ other basic wave managements are probably well explained by others for 1000000 times, it'll take like a 10 min video to explain. I or ttm might make one, but not now.
✦ Sona is a champion that brings miracles, never forfeit
✦ If you enjoy playing league and Sona for fun, forget about this guide. Being good makes you want to win over having fun, which is not fun.
✦ It's a video game afterall.
✦ DISABLE ALLY CHAT, DISABLE ALL CHAT, MUTE PINGS
✦ if you performed better than your enemy, you will eventually climb
✦ minion waves management is that you want it near your turret vs aggressive matchups; can slowly shove into enemy tower if vs Lulu/ Janna, but need to ward tri bush so that you don't die to ganks
✦ other basic wave managements are probably well explained by others for 1000000 times, it'll take like a 10 min video to explain. I or ttm might make one, but not now.
✦ Sona is a champion that brings miracles, never forfeit
✦ If you enjoy playing league and Sona for fun, forget about this guide. Being good makes you want to win over having fun, which is not fun.
✦ It's a video game afterall.
✦ DISABLE ALLY CHAT, DISABLE ALL CHAT, MUTE PINGS
reference
my css/style codes are from JHOIJHOI's guide
Thank you the tank man for rune screenshots and always support me. I love you forever.
Thank you khrymzon, somehow you are the second person I thought of besides ttm. Good luck with school!
Thank you escapethefate (icedcoffee~~~~), lakshin, and cbag for the long term twitch chat mental support in the loneliest and hopeless nights, along with khrymzon and pony, somehow you guys are always here ♥♥
And, Mini, I swear NA ladder is so free. Just play on one account, don't worry about wr and mmr, switch between ADC and SUP Sona, and it's all yours.
And everyone else who tolerated and liked my venting tweets :3
Thank you the tank man for rune screenshots and always support me. I love you forever.
Thank you khrymzon, somehow you are the second person I thought of besides ttm. Good luck with school!
Thank you escapethefate (icedcoffee~~~~), lakshin, and cbag for the long term twitch chat mental support in the loneliest and hopeless nights, along with khrymzon and pony, somehow you guys are always here ♥♥
And, Mini, I swear NA ladder is so free. Just play on one account, don't worry about wr and mmr, switch between ADC and SUP Sona, and it's all yours.
And everyone else who tolerated and liked my venting tweets :3
About Author
♥♥♥ Hi I'm Jade, in game name: ttv nannersowo / AD Nannies Pref, here is my Sona resume:
♥ NA Sona challenger since s8 (got challenger for Mid/ADC/Support)
♥ 3 million Sona points
♥ about 6182 Sona rank games throughout 8 seasons and 7 accounts
In this guide, I want to help everyone learn Sona, get really good at Sona, never lose a single game on Sona, improve Sona winrate to 100%, and take over NA soloq ladder while good support players are in Champion Queue, so Riot can remove Sona from the game and I can withdraw from this video game.
Go Go Go Sona kittens GOOOOOO~
my opgg if anyone wanna stalk LOL
my twitch
is full time streamer now for a few months and see if I can afford rent in June
Sona adc guide if anyone is interested
♥ NA Sona challenger since s8 (got challenger for Mid/ADC/Support)
♥ 3 million Sona points
♥ about 6182 Sona rank games throughout 8 seasons and 7 accounts
In this guide, I want to help everyone learn Sona, get really good at Sona, never lose a single game on Sona, improve Sona winrate to 100%, and take over NA soloq ladder while good support players are in Champion Queue, so Riot can remove Sona from the game and I can withdraw from this video game.
Go Go Go Sona kittens GOOOOOO~
my opgg if anyone wanna stalk LOL
my twitch
is full time streamer now for a few months and see if I can afford rent in June
Sona adc guide if anyone is interested
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