Howdy hey! My username is WeAreWalrus, but most just call me Walrus. This is the first guide I have ever made, and at the time of writing this I have been playing PvP on League of Legends for only about four months, and just now got myself ranked at the silver II division. That means I don't really know as much as I'd like to for making a guide, but I found that Sona didn't really have the any guides that were kept up to date or really all that in-depth. So that's what i'm trying to do here! Make a nice, up to date and in-depth guide of AP Sona! Before we start, I'd like to say that I find mid Sona to be really fun, and perfectly good. However, I don't find her in the role to be competitive by any means. She has too many counters and just doesn't work as well as many other mid laners. She is still crazy fun, and perfectly good enough at the role to be played though! I have little experience with making guides so try and go easy on me, eh?

Pros

+ Easy to use + Great poke + Built in sustain + Large AoE stun + Great utility

Cons

+ Insanely squishy + Poke is short ranged + Has MANY counters + No hard escape + Item dependent + Early mana problems + No wave clear

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Power Chord: After 3 ability casts, Sona's next basic attack will deal 13 to 192 (depending on level) (+ 20% AP) bonus magic damage, with an additional effect depending on the last basic ability cast.

Power Chord is a very versatile and important ability as it can heavily damage, heavily debuff an opponents damage, and even slow an enemy champion. Proper management of this ability will completely decide how your games go, so make sure you are familiar with it. (Tip: Try and only use this on enemy champions, as using it on a minion during the laning phase wastes a lot of good poking damage. Misusing a Power Chord also means you have to spend more mana and time queuing up another.)

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Hymn of Valor: Sona sends out bolts of sound that deal magic damage to the two nearest enemy units within range, prioritizing champions.
Magic damage 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 (+ 50% AP)

Aura: Sona and allied champions tagged with Hymn of Valor's aura deal bonus magic damage on their next basic attack within 3 seconds.
On-hit magic damage: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 (+ 25% AP)

Power Chord - Staccato: If this spell was last cast when Power Chord is ready, Power Chord deals 40% more damage.

This may be Sona's only offensive spell, but it's a great one at that. It's extremely easy to poke with, and can be used to last hit several minions at a time. In teamfights, it allows damage to multiple targets making you able to focus down your own target, while still helping out your team with the others. Its Power Chord named Staccato deals tons of damage mixed with Hymn of Valor. The best of each Power Chord when attempting to simply damage a foe.

• Your primary poke in lane should be to use Hymn of Valor straight into a basic attack, especially if you have Power Chord up.
• Sometimes you don't want to have extended trades with your opponent, or have issues getting in range. When this is the case, you can use Hymn of Valor to last hit minions and then simply use the auto attack bonus to harass. This also works the other way around.
• The Power Chord Staccato deals extra damage. Use this Power Chord primarily, whether it is to poke, push waves, take objectives or to help in bursting down primary targets.
• Harassing with Hymn of Valor is easy, but should never been done at the cost of cs. At times when you want to poke, but a minion is low on health you can actually position yourself to do both using Hymn of Valor as it fires two bolts towards the closet enemies. (Takes some practice to do correctly)
• Using Hymn of Valor can help when you need to last hit multiple minions at the same time. Just be cautious that this doesn't queue up your Power Chord when you can't harass the opposing laner.
• Hymn of Valor may not seem like it, but it requires you to have vision of your target for it to deal damage. This is easy (at least for me) to forget, so just make sure if someone is going into a bush, you wait until you can see them again to use it.

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Aria of Perseverance: Sona heals herself and a nearby allied champion with the lowest health percentage. The healing is increased by 1% for every 1% of the target's missing health.
Heal: 25 / 45 / 65 / 85 / 105 (+ 20% AP)
Max heal: 50 / 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 (+ 40% AP)

Aura: Sona and allied champions tagged with Aria of Perseverance's aura are shielded for up to 1.5 seconds.
Shield strength: 35 / 55 / 75 / 95 / 115 (+ 20% AP)

Power Chord - Diminuendo: If this spell was last cast when Power Chord is ready, Power Chord will also reduce the target's damage output by 20% (+ 2% per 100 AP) for 3 seconds.

Very useful spell all throughout the game. Most mid lane champions do not have a built in sustain, which makes Sona a really good sustaining champion despite her early mana issues. This spell is what makes her poking ability so strong. She needs to be close to poke, which means you almost always take return damage. That return damage becomes something you'll completely ignore when you can simply heal it all back. That's where Sona shines. Whittling down the opponent, while keeping herself in the game. Later on in the game, Sona will have so much mana that you can spam Aria of Perseverance to a point where you can almost always heal to full health again, given you have enough time. The Power Chord Diminuendo is probably the least useful of all three. It should only be used in select cases.

• Use this to constantly heal up to an even or higher health level than your opponent. Do not queue up a Power Chord with it during laning, though. You want to wait to use that for Hymn of Valor.
• Activating this ability right before taking damage will allow your shield to absorb most of it for you! However, the shield isn't the largest and spamming this every time you're being poked will run you out of mana quickly.
• In tough match ups, or when you're against champions who out trade you, use Aria of Perseverance twice to heal up as much as you can, while not fully stacking Power Chord. Then go in with your harassing combo.
• In the later game, make sure you remember that it isn't just you who gets healed. Aria of Perseverance is great at keeping any team mate alive during many situations.
• The Power Chord Diminuendo, is good for when you can't peel someone off of you or a team mate, and against heavy burst champions when they all in someone. Otherwise, I rarely use it as the damage reduction simply isn't great enough to warrant doing less damage.

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Song of Celerity: Sona gains a burst of bonus movement speed that decays down to the aura bonus over 3 seconds. The duration is increased by 0.5 seconds for each ally she tags with the aura.
Personal bonus MS: 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17% (+ 7.5% per 100 AP) (+ 2% x Crescendo's rank)

Aura: Allied champions tagged with Song of Celerity's aura gain movement speed for 1.5 seconds.
Aura bonus MS: 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14% (+ 3.5% per 100 AP) (+ 2% x Crescendo's rank)

Power Chord - Tempo: If this spell was last cast when Power Chord is ready, Power Chord will also slow the target by 40% (+ 4% per 100 AP) for 2 seconds.

Useless in the early game, but my god is this a wonderful utility spell later on! It can give your entire team a massive speed boost, and you can spam it quite often. Having a team that can maneuver more quickly around the map than your opponents is a great advantage. The Power Chord Tempo is very useful, A 40%+ slow for 2 seconds can do many things. Don't underestimate it. When you combine that with your personal speed boost it makes running from a late game Sona almost impossible. Hell, she's even quite hard to catch with the insane MS boost this provides. This allows Sona to dance around awaiting for her spells to cooldown extremely effectively.

• Use the Power Chord Tempo to peel for the ADC if you come across them needing it.
• When receiving a gank, a Power Chord of Tempo can be very useful in locking the opposing laner down, but it takes away from your damage output. If your jungler has no cc, or needs you to engage for the gank use Tempo. If they have high cc or get a good jump on the enemy, us Staccato.
• Tempo is great for kiting enemies, as Sona doesn't really have any other way to kite early on. It's also useful for securing an ally's escape, or keeping an enemy from fleeing.
• Use Song of Celerity to get back to lane faster. It wont be a game changing difference early on, but it helps.
• When you are going anywhere in the mid to late game, make sure you use Song of Celerity to get there more quickly. Provided that you aren't low on mana, of course.

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Crescendo: Sona plays an irresistible chord in a line, dealing magic damage to enemy champions and stunning them for 1.5 seconds, forcing them to dance.
Magic damage: 150 / 250 / 350 (+ 50% AP)

Need I even comment on this one? My god. So much power. During the laning phase, this will net you easy kills. During team fights, you'll want to save it for the perfect time so you can completely change the pace of battle. It's most common, and possibly greatest use is as a counter engage. Sometimes you can even find a time to use it to engage yourself, although that can easily lead to you being bursted down afterwards with how close you must be to use it effectively. If you have to use this to peel people off of you, then that's horrid. It shouldn't be used for peeling off an enemy, unless there are three plus people needing to be peeled. I do get into games where no one peels for the carries, however. And it's perfectly fine to use it then, just understand that it's potential is far greater than that.

• This abilities stun duration is great, and nets you easy kills in lane with a simple combo. That combo is to Crescendo into Hymn of Valor, fire a Power Chord and then Ignite them. This is no 100 to 0 burst, though. So be careful when you use it.
• If you have an enemy who has a strong ultimate that requires channeling, (e.g. Katarina, Galio, etc.) then try and save Crescendo to counter their ultimate.
• If you are using this ability on a singular opponent that has an ability that can dodge Crescendo (e.g. Ahri, Fizz, etc.) you should try and get them to use it beforehand. Rushing such a powerful ability and missing will put you at a serious disadvantage.
• If your Crescendo kill combo seems difficult to pull off because your opponent is skittish, then you can usually wait for them to be in range of a Flash. Using Flash into your ultimate always catches the opponent off guard, and allows for easy kills in lane.
• While it may seem like an AoE ability at first, Crescendo is actually considered a projectile. That means it has travel time and can be blocked by Yasuo's Wind Wall and Braum's Unbreakable.

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Sona's skill sequence is something tricky to explain. It changes quite heavily game to game based on your matchup. Ideally you want to be using the sequence above to maximize your damage output as early as possible, but a lot of the time Sona needs more sustain than that. This makes for a very situational leveling of your skills. You should try and focus on getting Hymn of Valor maxed first, but you may need to put a few points into Aria of Perseverance early depending on the lane you are in. You may also be against an extremely hard lane that requires you to max out Aria of Perseverance first. To understand when to put points into what simply takes time, but you can normally tell when you don't have enough sustain/defense and need at least one or two more points in Aria of Perseverance. Song of Celerity gives you a great speed boost late game to you and your team mates, but is almost useless early on. Take a point before you hit six so that you can avoid ganks more easily, but otherwise leave it until the end. Crescendo is your ultimate. Take this every time you can.

Flash is Flash. It's great on all champions, but Sona practically requires it. She has no hard escapes or gap closers, so taking Flash helps her out greatly. No substitute.




Ignite really helps secure your kills in the early and mid game. If you're in a team fight, or have plenty of AP increasing items then Sona has no issues bursting someone. However, she needs a good finisher early on so I always take Ignite. From what I've said, don't go thinking Ignite is only useful early game. It helps secure that important target kill in team fights, and inflicts a heal debuff that can be greatly needed at times.



Barrier is a great spell if you're looking for something defensive in a solo lane. It has a 30 second lower cooldown than Heal, and has the ability to protect yourself from more damage. The only thing it lacks is the speed boost and ability to defend an ally as well. Those things become quite moot when Sona can already do both of those things with her basic abilities. If you want a defensive option to take over Ignite, than grab Barrier. (Very useful against burst oriented opponents.)



A good spell that simply becomes outclassed by Barrier at this point in time. The only thing Heal has over Barrier is a small speed boost and the ability to heal an ally at the same time. Because of Song of Celerity and Aria of Perseverance, you don't need either of those things making Barrier the better option by far.



No mid laners ever seem to take Teleport. Well, none but me that is. I take Teleport when I am against a lane I don't believe I'll be able to win. It helps you keep up on farm, recall without threat of losing your tower, and helps the mid to late game by letting you roam freely and get to where you always need to be.



Supporting as Sona? Take Exhaust always! But when using her in the mid lane, I simply can't recommend it. The slow from Exhaust is something Sona can't benefit from early game unless she's receiving a gank, and the damage reduction is harder to use, and less effective than just taking Barrier.


I do not recommend ever using, and I do not feel the need to comment on anything else. If you have questions about another summoner spell, feel free to leave a comment and I'll get back to you. I may even put it into this guide if I feel it necessary.

Core Items

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Sorcerer's Shoes are great on any AP mid laner as they give you a small, but nice amount of early magic penetration. These boots are never a bad choice, but I feel like Sona benefits from Ionian Boots of Lucidity more, as she needs cooldown reduction very badly.

My personal favorite boots on Sona. These boots give you very useful early cooldown reduction. Sona loves to spam her abilities, and being able to help out your cooldown reduction without having to build a large item helps a ton. You may miss some magic penetration, but being able to queue up your Power Chord and Hymn of Valor faster helps early game harass more than the magic penetration from Sorcerer's Shoes anyway.

Mercury's Treads are a situational, yet very useful buy. If you are ever against a laning opponent or enemy team with heavy crowd control then these boots are great on Sona. Sona has a lack of mobility, so tenacity is a great thing to have. It also comes with some added magic resistance, which can help greatly during the laning phase.

Sona is squishy and mana dependent, mix that with her having to be in relatively close range during fights means Rod of Ages is a necessity! I build catalyst the protector very early (Usually after a Tear of the Goddess however), and I always finish this item first. I finish it above the other items, as it takes time to accumulate stacks, and the sustain from it is needed over everything else.

This is where all your core offense comes from. This baby is a power house on Sona as she primarily relies on auto attacks empowered with Power Chord and Lich Bane's effect to deal damage. It is what makes her able to play as an AP carry. Build a Lich Bane only after you've gotten a full Rod of Ages and your boots. When building this item, take the Sheen if you're ahead and are able to harass often. Take the Aether Wisp whenever this isn't the case. It's movement speed increase allows you to more easily get in, or out of range when needed.

This is a very useful item, but should always be finished last on your core (unless you are behind and the defensive item is necessary). You love to spam abilities as Sona, and this item lets you do just that. You have to get a Tear of the Goddess ASAP, but the rest can wait as the Tear of the Goddess gives you enough mana for the early to mid game. One other reason as to why I wait to grab Archangel's Staff until last is because you benefit way more from a Seraph's Embrace, so you can just wait until your Tear of the Goddess is fully stacked.

Offensive Items

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Do I need to say anything here? It is a very simple item. Hard, raw ability power. This item makes everything you do so much more meaningful. And it isn't just your damage that receives an increase! It increases your heals, shields, movement speed buff, and through Hymn of Valor's aura it'll increase your teammates damage as well! If you are the primary source of your teams damage, then you'll normally want to get a Void Staff as this build lacks any magic penetration. But at all other times this item will reign superior.

Not much in the way of magic penetration in this build, so grabbing a Void Staff is never a bad idea. However, if the enemy team is building very little to no magic resistance, then I suggest grabbing a Rabadon's Deathcap as it increases more than just your personal damage output. This item is never a bad thing to get, but I do believe it is outclassed in several situations.

This item is situational, but very useful. It gives a huge cooldown reduction boost that Sona loves, some ability power and a healing debuff that is surprisingly strong. Take this if you really feel you need to have greatly decreased cooldowns, or you are facing someone with crazy healing power (e.g. Soraka, Dr. Mundo, etc.)

Twin Shadows is a very useful item is certain situations. It really helps if you want to pump out more utility as opposed to damage. It's movement speed is really nice on Sona, has a small but nice amount of AP, and the CDR it provides is well worth it's cheap cost. Staple on a great active for chasing and catches out opponents and you can never go wrong using this on Sona.

Defensive Items

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Zhonya's Hourglass is great on any AP champion. If you really need defense, or are against a heavy AD team/laning opponent, then take this item. Note: If you are playing against an AD laner, you should almost always buy an early Seeker's Armguard. It'll help tons in the laning phase. However if you come to a massive early lead, continue the build as normal.

Spirit Visage is a great item on Sona! It gives you all you could want. It has a boost on cooldown reduction, magic resistance, health and even increases your healing power! As long as the enemy isn't straight AD then this item is always something to consider. Great item against heavy AP teams, but sometimes a Banshee's Veil can outclass it depending on the enemies composition.

Guardian Angel is always a fine item to take, but when playing Sona I try to avoid it as I think there is always a better option available. The revive passive is nice, but is simply outclassed by Zhonya's Hourglass's invulnerability active. The magic resistance and armor are great, but you can normally build another item such as a Zhonya's Hourglass or a Banshee's Veil depending on wether MR or armor is more needed. Doing so also gets you more out of an item as the other options have more to offer than straight resistances. I think this item is good to take if you are finding it difficult to remember to use active items, or you don't know whether you need to build MR or armor, but you generally miss out on something if you do build this item.

Banshee's Veil is a really good item for several reasons. It gives a hefty amount of MR with a nice boost to your health too! It gives a very useful passive ability which helps greatly against burst mages that require them to land some form of crowd control on you first (e.g. Lux, Ahri, etc), or skill shot supports that can catch you out and get you killed in seconds (e.g. Thresh, Morgana, etc.).

What's that? Your having issues with an enemy that deals magic damage, but you don't like the other two items because they have no offensive power? Well then buy this. Abyssal Mask is really useful. It's also always a great buy if you have a team with multiple AP champions too.

As always, your primary goal above all else during the laning phase is to gain as much CS as you possibly can. Sona’s secondary goal is to harass as often as possible without running out of mana. She may have only one offensive ability, but it’s a great one at that. Hymn of Valor and its empowered auto attack mixed with the occasional Power Chord will deal plenty of damage on their own. Look to use Hymn of Valor to force a trade whenever the opportunity arises. Hymn of Valor’s spell damage isn’t great on its own, so you need to make sure you make use of its empowered auto attack afterwards, as well as using Staccato whenever possible. (Staccato is the Power Chord from Hymn of Valor.) More damage comes out of Staccato and Hymn of Valor’s empowered auto attack than anything else, so make sure you try not to waste that useful harass. You should do everything in your power to make sure this ability always lands on the opposing laner, and not minions. Wasting a Power Chord means you’ll have to use time and mana queueing up another, and the damage for trades is just too great to pass up.

Sona seriously lacks range, which means it’ll be near impossible for you to harass your opponent without taking some return damage. While there may be plenty of champions that can out damage Sona in early game trades, few share her ability to heal up afterwards. Sona’s Aria of Perseverance is the real MVP of the laning phase. Taking more damage than your opponent during trades quickly becomes moot when you can simply heal it all back.

Before you get a point in Crescendo you lack much killing potential. Don’t try and look to rush kills early on. Instead, just whittle the enemy down as much as you can until your killing combo can finish them off. This combo can be found under Crescendo’s Tips and Tricks in the Abilities section of the guide. It’s pretty much the only way Sona can get kills in lane, but it works like a charm.

When you are against high ranged or skittish opponents you may need to use Song of Celerity to get yourself in range to force trades. Song of Celerity is also a great way to quickly get out of an opponents range after a successful trade. It’s rare that you will need to do either of these things early on, but it does happen. It becomes almost a must if you’ve started to snowball your lane. Be careful about doing this too much in the early game as it can easily run you out of mana.

When laning against a champion that pushes heavily you may need to use Hymn of Valor to counter push instead of using it to harass. If this happens then don’t try and force too many trades or save Power Chord for harassment. Just try and get as much CS as you can since Sona has issues farming under her tower. Other match ups may have you putting extra points into Aria of Perseverance early on. This is perfectly fine, and common for plenty of games. Just play a little bit safer than usual, and try not to trade until you are certain your damage and sustain are strong enough for you to win said trades.

If you are being dove when you have your ultimate, look and see if you can’t turn the fight. Sona’s long stun duration from Crescendo mixed with her survivability from Aria of Perseverance and Song of Celerity can lead to easy kills with tower aggro.

On the Topic of Ganks

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When your jungler shows up to help out your lane, there are several ways you two can go about it. Depending on the situation, you may need to engage the gank yourself so that your jungler can follow up for the kill. You can go about this two ways. The first way to engage is to simply use Crescendo whenever the opposing champion gets in range. It has a good stun duration that anyone should be able to follow up on. Just make sure you don’t miss, or use it too soon. The second way to engage is for when you either don’t have your ultimate, or you want to try and save it for whatever reason. The most effective way to engage without your ultimate is to hit the opposing laner with Tempo for the moderate slow it provides. It doesn’t give you near the lockdown that using Crescendo would, but it still works great.

Most often you wont be needing to engage the gank as the jungler has some way of doing it themselves. If this is the case, do everything in your power to follow up on their initiation, dealing as much damage as you can. In select cases you’ll still want to use Tempo instead of Staccato. This is only if you have a jungler that can dish out serious damage, and you are somewhat behind or believe the enemy would get away if you didn’t slow them. Also, make sure you always stack up a Power Chord before the jungler gets to your lane.

Don’t forget to tag your jungler with your auras! Hymn of Valor will make them deal more damage, Aria of Perseverance helps if they wish to dive or if they take more damage than expected, and Song of Celerity helps them close the gap and keeps them from being kited as easily.

When the enemy jungler shows up in an attempt to kill you, you’ll want to immediately use Song of Celerity to help in your escape. Tempo is very useful for keeping targets off of you too. Deciding to use Tempo on the jungler or enemy mid laner is completely situational and just requires your personal judgement. If you are ever about to be hit by an attack or some form of crowd control, activate Aria of Perseverance ASAP. Then just continually swap between that and Song of Celerity to maximize your survivability. In rare cases you’ll want to use Diminuendo if you are about to be hit by a bursty opponent to minimize their damage to you. This can be hard to do as you have to get this off very quickly. Never bother casting Hymn of Valor when being ganked unless you need it to queue up a Power Chord, or believe you can turn around for a kill. Otherwise it is simply a waste of time and mana.

Roaming

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Roaming is a very powerful tool when used correctly. It can be used to further push an advantage you have, get you caught up if you’ve been put behind, or allow you to do something useful when your lane is at a standstill. You also do these various things while directly helping out your teammates too.

Sona has issues with being able to roam. Her poor pushing power, and sustaining play style makes it hard to set up a good time to roam. You normally want to push out the wave before going to gank, but Sona’s lack of wave clear makes that difficult. The other option is to force someone out of lane before roaming, which Sona can actually do fairly easily due to her afore mentioned sustaining play style. The only issue is that it normally takes time and uses up a lot of your mana to do so, especially if you want to push the lane out on top of it.

Sona’s other issue with roaming is that she somewhat relies on having Crescendo up to properly lock down her targets during roams. Since it has a long cool down and Sona needs it to get kills in lane, it isn’t very common that you’ll be in a position to roam AND have your ultimate up too. Now you can still roam without it, but it’s a little more difficult to successfully pull off ganks since Sona doesn’t have much damage or crowd control in her basic abilities.

If you get in a position to roam then you should take the chance to do so. Sona can gank really well if she gets the opportunity. If you have your ultimate up it’ll lead to an easy kill. The long stun duration and added damage makes it quite hard for most foes to escape. Just look for a time to engage with your full combo, or wait until your ally laner has initiated to do it. Either way, they should die easily.

If you do not have Crescendo up, then there are multiple ways to go about your gank. If the enemy you are ganking has a good escape tool, you’ll probably just want to fly into the lane as fast as you can using Song of Celerity and then hit as hard as you can with a Hymn of Valor and Power Chord combo. This is also the best option if the enemy laners are really low on health, or if your teammates have good crowd control to lock them down for you.

Option two only works that well if the lane your trying to gank has been really pushed to your side, and/or your friendly laner has a high damage output. What you do in this situation is run up to the lane as fast as you can with Song of Celerity and then use a Tempo to slow the opposing player. Afterwards just try to do as much damage as possible, and tag your teammate with your auras to help secure the kill.

Sona is a mage who lacks much range, so you have to get close up and personal in team fights. With that being said, Sona should almost never engage any team fights. You want to make sure that the enemy is either good and distracted, or that you stay by someone that can peel/protect you. Sona is very different from most APCs in team fights. You should focus on dealing damage to a key target (so long as it doesn't force you into a bad position) and then dancing around, tagging your teammates with your auras while awaiting cooldowns. She brings less damage to a team fight than most mages, but makes up for it with superior utility. Try and always be near someone so you can get the most out of your auras.

Try and use Crescendo on as many people as possible. This ability should not ever be rushed out. Don't just look for the first chance to use your ultimate in every fight, instead be patient. Save it for that perfect moment. Make sure in these later fights that your teammates can follow up on it too. Don't want to get a stun on their entire team if nothing will happen afterwards! One of its best uses is to counter engage an enemy team. When they start a fight, if you can use this to lock them all down then your teammates can have a field day. Proper use of this can truly decide a team fight.

In the late game fights, you should be spamming your abilities and firing off auto attacks in between them to make use of Lich Bane and Power Chord. Your sequence of activating your abilities in team fights should be to use Hymn of Valor into a Power Chord of Staccato, then try and tag teammates with its aura to put out more damage. If you fear being caught out and want to get away more quickly, then simply skip tagging with your aura and continue as normal. After you deal your damage, use Song of Celerity simply to help stack another Power Chord and allowing for you to more easily dance about as to not get hurt while awaiting cooldowns. Tag teammates whenever possible. That speed boost helps people peel and keep from being peeled. After that, quickly activate Aria of Perseverance to gain another stack on Power Chord making you at two. This aura is very important to land on as many people as possible. This shield is a life saver. Lastly, activate Hymn of Valor once it's off cooldown to fully stack Power Chord and fire another Staccato. (Make sure you look for opportunities to auto attack in between each spell cast to make use of Lich Bane.) Repeat until the fight is over.

If you are behind, not doing damage and just dying too easily, then sometimes it's best to transition Sona into more of a support role. Peeling for your ADC and keeping your team alive via utility instead of trying to be the main damage source can turn the tides of battle. With this being said, I wouldn't recommend building any support items. It's too late to focus on that, as you'll already have too many mage items to change out now. It'll still work just fine.

If a team fight is lost and you must retreat, spam Song of Celerity as much as you can, mixing in an Aria of Perseverance if needed. Make sure you tag teammates with your Aura's to help them out too! Keep in mind that using a Power Chord of Tempo (the one from Song of Celerity) slows an opponent, making you able to save a team mate that is about to be caught, or just to kite effectively.

If a team fight is won, and you must chase down fleeing enemies, you should use the same method of spamming your abilities as often as possible, but try and keep Song of Celerity on for as long as you can. Try and tag your teammates with Song of Celerity's aura so that they can chase more easily, too. Never do this if you have to go out of your way though, as you'll just put more distance between yourself and your target. Using the Power Chord of Song of Celerity can be very useful for chasing, but it is situational. Sometimes Staccato is still the better choice.

For a much shorter and concise version of these matchups, check out the "Threats to Sona With This Build" section at the top of the guide.

This is nowhere near close to being done, and will be an always evolving section. I apologize for how empty it is currently, but i just don't have the information to fill this section yet. If you see any of the matchups with the label N/A then that means it hasn't been thoroughly tested, and is just a theory I've made up. So use that information with caution. The coloration of the label remains the same, which is green for favorable, yellow for neutral and red for difficult.

7/10 Ahri Ahri is never the easiest matchup, but it is a winnable lane. She has fairly good poke with Orb of Deception, nice sustain with Essence Theft, great mobility with Spirit Rush and using her combo she has the damage output to burst you down quickly. This may sound very difficult to face, and it most certainly can be at times, but it's something you can indeed win if you play correctly. Orb of Deception is where most of Ahri's damage comes from. She'll use this to poke somewhat often, but it really isn't that hard to dodge. Never, under any circumstance allow this spell to hit you on its return. It deals true damage on the return, and that just isn't something you want to be hit by. Charm is the skill that'll get you killed. Never let this hit you. Always be behind minions, or at a distance if Charm is up. Her landing charm even at early levels will allow her to chunk you for lots of damage via her combo. This spell is surprisingly easy to dodge with some practice. Most Ahri players make it quite obvious when and how they plan on using this skill. Ahri has a semi weak pre six that you should attempt to abuse as much as you can. Now she has nice sustain via Essence Theft, but it isn't better than your own Aria of Perseverance. While she has strong damage with Orb of Deception, it's quite easy to dodge and you can heal yourself up when it does hit you. As long as you don't let her land a Charm for her combo, than you'll win during this stage of the game. If Orb of Deception is down, Ahri's damage is lowered significantly. Even if she lands a Charm, Ahri can't do much with it if she can't use Orb of Deception too. This spell being on cool down signifies your time to go in for trades. Some Ahri players will rush to all in you even when you have minions around. If Ahri ever attempts to close the gap using Spirit Rush while you have minions close to you, always run into them. Just keep her from landing Charm by constantly having something in front of you, as running backwards in the open makes it a lot easier for her to hit you. Ahri players at my level will normally try and get off Charm as quick as they can after using Spirit Rush in an attempt to catch you off guard, rather than making sure they'll land the skill. Since this is the case, the best way to dodge these players is to run off to the side, and slightly towards them. It's unexpected and makes them often miss. This is very situational however, and easily countered by an intelligent and experienced player. Ahri is very reliant on landing her combination of spells to burst you. If she misses her skills, she is incredibly vulnerable. This makes the above two examples of dodging her skills very important to note, as after you've avoided her abilities you can easy burst her, or simply put down some harass during lane. Using Crescendo on an Ahri is very difficult to do correctly. If Ahri has just used Spirit Rush, and you need to land your ultimate on her you can go about it in two ways. Make sure you use it after the third charge on Spirit Rush is done, or make sure you use it on her immediately after she's finished dashing. If doing the latter, than make sure you can burst her down during the duration of Crescendo's stun. If not, then she'll simply use her next charge to get away. If you can dodge her skills, then you'll win against an Ahri. If not, she'll beat you. This lane is pretty much that simple. Not too much that is special about it, but you still need to stay on your toes. It can be really hard to beat a good Ahri, but it is most certainly possible. Good luck! 6/10 Akali Akali is an interesting, fun and challenging match up. Pre six you can kick her *** so easily, and she can't do a thing about it. The best thing you can do to beat an Akali is to push her hard and keep her from csing. Sadly, Sona doesn't have any pushing power so you have to settle for the next best thing. Poking her relentlessly and zoning constantly. She's hard to truly kill as Sona without Crescendo, but you can beat her around so much that she should be needing to back very often, making you able to crush her in cs. Just show her how much damage you can put out and get her scared to be near you as early as possible. Then just sit between her and your minions denying Akali any cs. Very easy way to zone her out completely. If you haven't established a cs lead, then she'll be bursting you to death once she gets her Shadow Dance. She deals insane damage and Sona has no way of escaping, or putting down effective CC without busting her Crescendo. However if you have screwed her over, than she'll only be able to take about half your health with any one burst. When she jumps on you, hit her as hard as you can before she hides under her Twilight Shroud. Once she's invisible, back away quickly! You don't want to fight with her for long periods of time. Just back up, heal up and try and keep her from doing the same. You should be able to out sustain her, as your Aria of Perseverance is better than her spellvamp and lifesteal at early levels. Once you have your ultimate ability yourself, it is time to get a Vision Ward. Vision Wards are Akali's greatest foe. She's similar to you in that she likes to burst hard, then stay safe awaiting her cooldowns. If you use a Vision Ward to remove her invisibility then she can't do that. It also makes sure you'll land your Crescendo, and that when you do you can actually follow up on it. Also, when you get your ultimate you now possess the ability to kill her. Another good way to reveal Akali is to use Ignite on her as soon as she jumps on you. Most Akali players (at least at my level) wont realize they've been hit by Ignite and will still try to immediately Twilight Shroud themselves after using their combo on you. You'll only want to do this if you, or a teammate near you can kill Akali once she's revealed, as using your Ignite and then not being able to do anything with it is just a waste. Keep in mind that you never want to be low on health around a post six Akali. With this being said, if Akali ever underestimates you and jumps at you while she is low on health, you can Crescendo her to lock her down while you burst her back. Careful about the late game, however. She'll eventually get past her early farming issues, and then your lack of escapes and CC to deal with Akali will show. Even if you've put her very far behind, she is not something to ignore. Keep the pressure on her all throughout the game. Never just ignore her and let an Akali go wild in a team fight because you think she's too far behind to do anything. She isn't. One last thing to note. Do NOT under any circumstance, let her roam. She will snowball uncontrollably if allowed just a few kills. If you ever see her head towards another lane, follow her. Don't just ping MIA and expect everything will be just fine. Better safe than sorry! 10/10 Cassiopeia (Outdated) She has better poke then you, and a much better all in than you. Anything you can do, she can do better. Try and get your jungler to gank for you. It'll be needed. Put some early points in Aria of Perseverance and save mana for healing. Only try and harass her when she's attempted to poke you and missed. If you try and start a trade yourself, she'll dominate you. Make this lane into a sustain battle if possible. Try and run her out of mana so that you'll be able to do whatever you wish. 10/10 Diana It's pretty rare that I ever see Diana picked for the mid lane, and dear god am I thankful for that. Diana is one of those champions that will bash you around like a rag doll without you having any say in it. This is one of those matchups that'll make it clear to you as to why Sona isn't competitively viable as a mage. The best way to play this match is to harass her heavily in the early game as she's got a weak pre six. You'll have issues getting through her rough hide, but if you can poke her down enough so your jungler can gank her, your life will become a lot easier later on. Crescent Strike is her only form of harass. It's a unique skill shot in that it is a curved projectile that always arcs from Diana's right. It takes a minute to understand, but once you play against it a bit you'll be able to avoid this skill quite easily. It doesn't have a huge range, and since it always curves from her right you can easily dodge it by simply stepping away to her left. This becomes a key skill to have learned once Diana reaches level six, as this determines whether or not you die. Pale Cascade is a shield that doubles as extra burst. Doesn't pose much of an issue pre six, other than making her naturally tanky. She can use this to negate most of your harass, but if she does that she'll be running out of mana quite quickly. Make sure you don't attempt to poke her if she activates this preemptively. Careful about being baited into a fight. This shield soaks up tons of damage, and allows Diana to kill opponents while deceivingly low. Post six, Diana now has Lunar Rush and has decided she wants to kill you. And you die. That's basically it. Sona has serious issues playing around Diana after she has Lunar Rush. Sona has no escapes and no hard CC to stop Diana without using her ultimate Crescendo. Normally this wouldn't be an issue, as with someone like Akali Sona can just use her ultimate and burst the opponent after their engage. Diana can't be bursted by you. She's naturally quite tanky for a mid laner even without her Pale Cascade or Zhonya's Hourglass. (Which is a core item for her.) This means that, as long as Diana realizes this, she can tower dive you without much fear of retaliation. You may be able to kill an overly aggressive Diana if she happens to tower dive while you have Crescendo up, but it's unlikely she'll do that. Post six, just try and stay away from her. Farm up and make it a sustain lane. Try to follow her when she goes to roam, as you can't push hard enough to make her pay for it. Make sure you always dodge Crescent Strike at this point! If you keep in mind just how it curves, and use Song of Celerity you should be able to avoid Crescent Strike most often. In short. This matchup is hellish and there isn't a thing you can do to make it better. Sona can be completely shut down by certain opponents without her being able to do anything about it. This is one of those matchups. I hate to give such poor information and give little advice as to what you should do, but you can't really do anything about this one. 7/10 Galio Galio. The bane of all magic based champions. There is little threat to this lane, but also little entertainment. You wont be killing Galio. It just wont happen. But if you play correctly and don't do anything risky and dumb, he wont be killing you either. His passive Runic Skin is what makes this the case. It will make it so you basically can't do anything to the brute if you attempt to trade. So just don't do it. He'll win every time. If you play smart, and don't let him get too close than his harass will be easy to avoid. Even if it does land, it wont do too much damage, and you'll be able to easily heal up. Especially since you have Aria of Perseverance. He can push. And if he chooses to just push you under your tower you'll have issues. If this is the case, use Hymn of Valor to push back. Since you won't be trading with Galio, there is no reason not to. Go ahead and push back using your Power Chord too. You can try and get your jungler to gank for you, but remember a few rules. One, if the jungler is also an AP based champion, just don't bother. Farm up. Two, you can't do much damage to him, so focus on being the utility. Probably best you use Tempo (the Power Chord from Song of Celerity) to keep him from getting away while your jungler does the damage. Three, never, ever dive a Galio if Idol of Durand is up. Unless he is insanely low, you're both insanely healthy, and Bulwark has also been used, it just wont work. Don't get too low around him. Sona's lack of escapes makes Idol of Durand a very painful skill to be hit by. It's quite easy to avoid though. Shouldn't cause any issues unless there is jungler intervention. Don't buy magic penetration in lane. It wont be enough to counter Galio and his Runic Skin. However, always get magic penetration in the late game if he is on the enemy team. It'll be the only way you can deal with him. 1/10 Katarina You counter her quite hard. Katarina can't exploit any of Sona's weaknesses, and she has a weak early game while yours is rather strong. Once she gets access to her ultimate, things normally change for her. However Crescendo completely counters Death Lotus so it will cause you no problems. Poke her as often as you can. Her being a melee champ is easily exploitable as Sona. If she ever uses Shunpo on you pre six, just poke her hard and create enough distance so that she can't attack you, but you can still attack her. Then as she attempts to back away, follow her while auto attacking as often as possible. Doing this will allow you to win every trade. Katarina doesn't have any mana costs, and Katarina players will regularly buy a lot of Health Potions. In fact, most Katarina players start out with Boots and five Health Potions. This normally gives her good sustain for a mid laner, but after a few minutes of play you'll see just how greatly you out sustain her. Make sure you always have higher health than her. Katarina is still Katarina, so she can burst you quickly. The reason you counter her is the fact that via Aria of Perseverance you'll never get low enough for her to do so. I normally put two points into Aria of Perseverance early, just to make it even harder for her to harm me. Especially if you are having issues with the enemy jungler. Katarina can be very easy to zone as well. If you show how dominant you can be at early levels, Katarina players will sometimes become scared of you quickly. When this is the case it's quite easy to just sit between her and your minions, denying Katarina CS. After she is level six don't get into extended fights with her unless you have Crescendo up. If you do, than just wait until she uses her Death Lotus, and counter with your Crescendo. During team fights, you will probably just want to keep saving Crescendo to stop Katarina's Death Lotus. If the enemy team is really behind and you don't believe that they'll be able to engage well enough for Katarina to get a good ultimate off, or if your team has done a good job of stopping her channeling themselves, then use Crescendo normally. One last thing to note. Do NOT let her roam freely. She needs kills to stay relevant, so if she roams FOLLOW HER. Don't just call MIA and expect everything will be fine. She is one of those champions who doesn't snowball, but instead creates a freaking avalanche. So don't let her get a single kill for free if you can help it. 4/10 Lux Lux is a rather interesting matchup for Sona. Lux has immense range and a lot of crowd control on you, but you have more sustain and slightly higher early damage so long as you don't get hit by all of her spells. When playing against Lux, it is key that you do not allow her to land Light Binding, and that you keep her from utilizing her passive ability Illumination. Let's start with her passive Illumination. If you aren't familiar with it don't worry, I'll explain. Every time Lux successfully lands one of her offensive abilities on a target, they are marked for a few seconds. If she lands an auto attack on a marked opponent, it will consume the mark dealing bonus magic damage. This hurts. A lot. It's surprising how much a passive ability can put out, but it is true. If she ever hits you with an ability, try and keep some distance until your mark has worn off. It'll almost double her damage if she can detonate this in the early game. Next key is to avoid Light Binding at all costs! This is insanely important. If she lands light binding in the early game, it allows her to easily activate her passive, then hit you with Lucent Singularity and detonate a second mark. This'll take about half your health with ease, and all she has to do is land one skill shot. It also allows her to easily set up ganks, and in the mid to late game she can use her burst combo to completely kill you while taking no damage in return. Either keep minions in front of you, or keep some distance from her. It's easy to dodge if you can see it coming. Her Lucent Singularity is the ability she uses to poke with most often. It can be a difficult ability to avoid at first, but just remember that is has a short travel time before she can detonate it. This means you do have some time to dodge. Lux will almost always try and lead your movement with this ability. I've found in my personal level of play, most Lux players will throw this spell behind you, expecting you to run away in an attempt to avoid it. This is easily countered by just running towards Lux. Make sure you only try and harass after she's used this ability. Sona takes some time to use her poke as she must cast Hymn of Valor and launch an auto attack. This gives Lux plenty of time to trade back with you, but making sure Lucent Singularity is down when going in will negate that. On the defense, Lux has a deceptively powerful shield. Prismatic Barrier is great for soaking up damage. Sona is more burst oriented, so this shouldn't be a large issue for you. Just make sure you pay attention to whether or not Prismatic Barrier has returned if you plan on chasing/diving her. Now on to her ultimate ability Final Spark. This will primarily be used during her burst combo, meaning that if you wanna avoid her ultimate just avoid Light Binding. However, it is also often used for the famous snipes that Lux can pull off! Basically you just need to understand that staying at low health around Lux is a serious issue. Sona has no mobility, so if you're caught off guard by it then you are as good as dead. Not worth the risk. However, when it comes to leaving a fight, or just barely escaping a fight with Lux around then expect it to come out. If you absolutely know it's about to come out, it's easy to sidestep with Song of Celerity. Just make sure you keep yourself from getting close to a wall, as a smart Lux can aim it with one side just barely touching said wall, meaning you have to go through it's full width to avoid it. In other words, it'll be impossible for you to dodge. Keep in mind that all her abilities have long cooldowns. If she misses a Light Binding then you're pretty much free to do whatever you want for the next twelve seconds. Just get up in her face and zone her when this is down. She'll probably just back off until it is up again. Once she has her ultimate, if you're ever hit by Light Binding at two thirds of your health or lower, be prepared to very quickly use your Crescendo on her. This will either allow you to get away with ease, or since her Light Binding is on cooldown, go for a counter kill. Lux is very squishy, so playing aggressive against her can really pay off. If you are avoiding her spells and she isn't constantly running away from you whenever you get a little close, then you can play aggressively. Try and always make sure you go up to harass her after she's used Lucent Singularity so that she can't return any damage. You will probably need to use Song of Celerity to get in range for you to harass in this matchup. If she is a skittish player that just pushes the waves and stays at max range all throughout laning, then just turn it into a farming and sustaining lane. Try and roam whenever she's gone, and just use Aria of Perseverance to outlast her. She's also quite mana hungry too. No problems there. Lux has no escapes, but Lux is thankful for the fact that her immense range lets her get away with never getting into dangerous situations where she needs them. However, with Sona's speed boost from Song of Celerity catching her out in the mid to late game is insanely easy. If you are close to Lux, she will have serious issues. Especially since Sona can spam Song of Celerity and just constantly dance around Lux to easily avoid all her spells. Just make sure when closing the gap with Lux that you never run straight at her. Go around to her at a bit of a curve as to make Light Binding more easy to dodge. If you find yourself right on top of her, just dance around her and she'll rarely hit you. If she ever misses her Light Binding, you can easily go for a quick kill with little chances of Lux escaping. 5/10 Nidalee A middle lane Nidalee will most certainly be building AP. This means she'll have great poke, and not too bad sustain either. Luckily this type of Nidalee is normally less durable than your average top lane build. Nidalee can be really hard to kill at times, but for Sona you can normally bait her into death quite easily. Javelin Toss hurts. Seriously. And she'll be chucking this at you constantly. It's honestly pretty easy to avoid so long as you have vision of Nidalee. It's quite small and slow moving, so if you know it is coming you can normally avoid it. Best way to keep it from hitting you is to just keep a minion in front of you at all times. This projectile is skinny and EXTREMELY long ranged so never run away from it, always move to the side. Especially since it deals more damage the further you are from Nidalee. Pounce is a pain to deal with. You'll never catch a Nidalee. Your only hope of killing her is to poke her down to where you can burst her when possible. If you're playing against a very skittish player, they may use Pounce ever time you start to move towards them. Now this is annoying, but it really lowers the danger of being killed by her. When Pounce is down she can't close the gap to damage you, and because of Aria of Perseverance you shouldn't be dying to her Javelin Toss alone. Now it seems pretty dumb to tell you that you need to avoid Javelin Toss and Bushwhack, but it is really important that these don't hit you for something other than their damage. These are the two skills that trigger Nidalee's passive. If Nidalee can't get her passive on you, than it's quite hard for her to kill you as it cuts her damage and offensive mobility by a fair amount. Most players don't understand what Sona can do in terms of damage. This allows you to easily bait out a kill, especially from Nidalee players. Have you gotten her low enough so that you can burst her with your combo, but she refuses to get ANYWHERE near you? We've all been there. It might be just about time for you to eat that next Javelin Toss... Nidalee will never go in if she knows her opponent can burst her, but luckily most players don't know when Sona can burst them down. You can easily close the gap with Nidalee by purposefully letting her land Javelin Toss, making most players quickly try and Pounce in for a kill. As soon as she uses Pounce, Crescendo that fool and add another head to your mantle. Keep in mind this really only works with people at lower levels of play and those who don't know Sona's damage potential as a mage. Never, ever use Crescendo on Nidalee unless Pounce is on cool down and you can instantly burst her for an immediate kill. If she can pounce away and heal up after your combo, then you've simply wasted your ultimate. 6/10 Orianna Orianna doesn't really have a kit that counters yours, but this matchup can be difficult simply because she is an immensely powerful laner. She can out trade you, fairly easily escape you and push harder than you. Where you win is by out sustaining her and by having higher burst damage. Orianna's gameplay all revolves around The Ball. If you pay attention to where you are in relation to The Ball, you should be able to avoid her harassment. Command: Attack is a little confusing to avoid at first, but you'll get used to it. You avoid it like all skill shots, which is by walking to the left or right of it. Just make sure you walk to the side of where The Ball is coming from, not where Orianna is positioned. Command: Attack coupled with Command: Dissonance and Clockwork Windup delivers great amounts of damage during trades. This damage is far more than you can put out yourself, meaning it's something you'll have to play around. Since all of her skills require you to be around The Ball for them to damage you, you can easily engage on her when Command: Attack goes on cool down. Whenever she misses this skill, you have a short opportunity to harass her. Make sure you always play around this skill, don't get cocky thinking you can out trade her full damage. Keep in mind that Command: Attack has a short cool down and Clockwork Windup still hurts even without other abilities to back it up. This just means you should hit her hard with your burst, but back up afterwards as staying around for too long will get you in trouble. Due to her shield and speed boost from Command: Protect and Command: Dissonance she can be quite difficult to kill at times. If you want to kill her, try and get her low enough so that your burst combo will take her out completely. If you blow your abilities and she isn't dead, then Command: Protect will allow her to easily survive your basic attacks and/or Ignite. 8/10 Talon (Outdated) Oh boy. Talon can kick your *** if played right. He is one of those champions who doesn't care about your poke, and will just all in you for easy kills. Play passively and ask for ganks. If you get into range for your Hymn of Valor then he'll be in range for his cutthroat. If he all ins you like that, try and back away. His silence is extremely deadly for Sona. Early on, he will occasionally cutthroat on to you and hit hard, but back off after using his abilities as he knows he can't kill you just yet. If this happens, be sure to try and return damage on him while he's backing off, just to make sure the trade isn't completely lost. If he uses his Rake on minions, or to poke but misses, then you can easily harass him with it being on cooldown. In this matchup you should purchase an early Seeker's Armguard, and put several points into Aria of Perseverance early on. 3/10 twisted fate Twisted Fate is a fairly easy matchup to win. He doesn't have great laning skills, and he lacks anything to keep Sona from doing what she wants. However, Twisted Fate isn't really looking to win his lane through killing or out farming you. He's looking to roam and cleanup the other lanes. It is very difficult to stop him from doing this, so your goal will be to always keep him low enough so he can't roam without recalling, and to make sure he pays for leaving lane when he does. Laning against TF is quite easy, so long that you know what you're doing. Laning against him is all about avoiding and baiting out Pick A Card. This ability is really easy to bait out as it will show you what he's choosing when activated. Just stay out of auto attack range when he queue's it up. Right after he's used this ability is your time to go in. You don't want to ever force a trade when he has this up, but if you only go in when it's down you can easily harass him with little return. Make sure you know just what these three different cards can do, and what he'll use them for. Blue card does the most damage on its own, but not much else. He'll normally just use it on minions. You should be able to poke him around enough so that him gaining mana wont matter, as he has to recall due to lack of health instead. His red card is an AoE slow. The only thing you need to learn about this one is to stay away from your minions when he has it up. It'll hit you with splash damage if you're too close to his target. Yellow card is the bad one. It'll stun you allowing him to easily get off his other abilities and set up for ganks. Never allow this one to hit you. Avoid it using Song of Celerity if you really need to. The next threatening thing he possesses is Wild Cards. Wild Cards is insanely easy to side step. You shouldn't have difficulty avoiding this at all. If you are however, then just back up to put more space between the two of you. That allows you more time to dodge. The annoying thing about this skill is how easily it will allow TF to push your lane. In early levels, make sure not to draw minion aggro if he's been pushing with this. Stacked Deck makes is so that every four basic attacks Twisted Fate lands will give him bonus magic damage on his next auto attack. You can tell when Twisted Fate has this, because cards will circle him underfoot. It's a simple ability you don't have to think too much about. Just when laning, make sure you don't start a trade if he has this up. You are both auto attack oriented mages, and your range is about the same. This means if you can attack TF then he can attack you. Don't get into an all out auto attack battle with Twisted Fate. Do to his Stacked Deck and greatly lower cool downs, he'll easily win. Make trades short and painful for him, then heal up the small amount you've lost. Twisted Fate is similar to Sona in that he enjoys added movement speed so he can get into range more easily. Because of this, a lot of Twisted Fate players will take movement speed quintessences. If you click on your opponent when he first gets to lane, you can check his movement speed to see if it's higher than yours. If it is, then you will probably need to use Song of Celerity to get in range when you go to harass. You may also need to use it to stay out of range from his Pick A Card. This wont add much difficulty to the lane, just something else to think about especially when it comes to mana conservation. Make sure that when Twisted Fate uses Destiny to roam, you make him pay for it by pushing as hard as you can. Unless you know you can get to where TF wants to be shortly after he gets there, than it is useless to follow him. Just make him miss as much cs as possible while chunking down his tower to boot. 2/10 Ziggs Easy. Just stay mobile to avoid his poke while constantly zoning and harassing him. Try and harass him right after he casts Bouncing Bomb. This allows for easily winnable trades. As long as you are able to dodge most of his poke then your Aria of Perseverance should allow you to dominate him in the sustain game. The biggest problems with Ziggs is how hard he can push the lane, while Sona can't push it back at all. With his pushing power he will always have larger minion waves than you, so be careful of drawing their aggro. Easy kills at six with your kill combo, provided you can get in range.

As a small last note, I would like to take a quick moment to thank some people. First thanks goes to the user Jhoijhoi for the amazing guide on "Making a Guide" as it helped me out a ton. I used several of the templets to make this guide, and i'm happy with every one of them. I'm sure Jhoijhoi has received enough thanks by the thousands of people that have used said guide, but I feel like thanking you regardless. So thanks a million, man (I call everyone man, so don't feel insulted please). Next on the thank you list is TheFanciestBard. TheFanciestBard made the guide I used when I first started playing Sona in the mid lane, and it really helped me out in that role. I made this guide with a lot of stuff based off of theirs, so thank you a ton. I wouldn't be making this otherwise. The third of them all is Retribution. Retribution doesn't really have much to do with this guide, but he/she made an amazing Lux guide that helped me in so many ways. I started playing League of Legends with Lux, and Retribution's guide was the first one I ever found. It not only helped me play Lux, but it helped me with EVERY aspect of the game. It made me understand just what a build is, and how to make one. I attempted to make my guide somewhat similar as his/hers in that it is quite in-depth. The only change I feel I made from Retribution's style of guide, is that I only focused on the champion Sona, not gameplay in general. (With that being said, it looks like a toddler's ramblings in comparison.)

I don't expect anyone I have just thanked to EVER see this. But I felt it necessary regardless.