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Sona Build Guide by

[11.18] Chinese GM Sona Build Sleeper OP

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Runes: Versing Heavy CC, Laning Enchanters

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Sorcery

Summon Aery

Manaflow Band

Transcendence

Gathering Storm

Precision

Presence of Mind

Legend: Tenacity

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

Exhaust

Flash

Items

Starting Item

First Back

Boots

Mythic (READ NOTES)

Core Items

Situational

Example Full Build

Ability Order 3 Points Q then W Max

Sona Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Nautilus

Extreme

Nautilus's strong engage kit makes Sona suffer in lane. If Nautilus lands a hook most likely it will be a confirmed death to Sona. Especially with Nautilus's ultimate at level 6.

Sivir

Ideal

Really good poke and waveclear. Also when versing hook supports you can just stand behind Sivir and Sivir can just spellshield.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Sivir

Ideal

Really good poke and waveclear. Also when versing hook supports you can just stand behind Sivir and Sivir can just spellshield.

Champion Build Guide

About Me

Hey guys I am Three Five and welcome to my Grandmaster guide. I'm a Grandmaster player from OCE. I started playing all the way back in season 3. was a champion I played a lot of when I peaked top 100 in OCE in Season 9, I'd consider her my biggest comfort champ and I talk to many High Elo players from different regions to constantly ensure I play her as well as I can. .

I regularly stream my gameplay on Twitch and tweet a lot on Twitter

Why Sona

Abilities

Sona - Maven Of The Strings
Support

Origin: Demacia

Speciality: Healing, Shielding, Speeding up, Healing, Shielding, Speeding up.
Why should you play this complicated champion? is a great pick that can take over and destroy SoloQ games in the mid-late game. can outscale all supports with ease, her aoe shield, heal and speed up with literally zero CD gives your enemies cancer. And leave the enemy team in the dust so hard that they will all chat 'Support Gap.'

Pros & Cons

PROS

+ High Scaling Mid-Late Game
+ Non AD-Dependant
+ High Utility To Team
+ Gives Opponents Cancer
+ Tons Of Healing
+ Tons Of Shields

All in all, is a great champion on Support for soloq. In soloq, high scaling makes you overpowered in the mid to late stages of the game. Infinite shielding and healing and speeding up will destroy the enemy players mental.

CONS

- Lack of Laning Power
- Squishy at All Stages of Game
- Vulnerable to CC
- Hard to Play From Behind

Just like any other champion, has her weaknesses. However, her strenghts heavily outweigh her weaknesses. When mastered and you know how to play around her weaknesses will have dominating mid game power that you can transition to easy LP and plays.

Runes

Sorcery

This sorcery page shows the most efficient rune page for our baby girl . The main keystone for is . allows you to deal extra poke damage in lane as well as gives extra shield to your teammates when they’re buffed by , and . should be used in most of your games as it has insane synergy with .

For the second row you always want to take over the others. gives you bonus max mana each time you damage an enemy with your . When you max out your you will receive regenerate 1% of missing mana per second. This rune is very efficient on as she relies on mana to spam her abilities to impact the game in the mid-game.

In the third row is the ONLY viable option. It is very broken on as it synergizes with her kit very well. The scaling ability haste is exactly what needs as well as upon champion takedowns, it refunds cooldowns of her non-ultimate abilities. So she can spam those spells again.

In the last row you have two choices. Generally I would always take and this would help a little with ’s weak laning phase. enables extra poke damage in the early game so would be trading HP better. But however is a viable alternative. scales giga hard into the late game and ’s power late game will be unstoppable – given that you survived the laning phase.

gives amazing mana sustain in lane and during teamfights. relies on her mana to be useful to the team. As especially after the rework, her cooldowns are getting much lower in the mid-game. Therefore having is very important for her mana sustain.

If there are lots of CC on the enemy team, pick . This reduces the time of you been crowd controlled. Then opt in for will give you total 51% tenancity when fully stacked. Which means if you were to get stunned by 3 seconds you will now only be stunned for 1.5 seconds. Sona is very vulnerable to CC and having 51% tenancity is so much more safer especially in teamghts.

Standard enchanter. 2x Adaptive Force and 1x Armor.

Items

Spellthief's Edge
There is only one starting item that you want to go which is . This item outperforms by a ton. gives mana regen and is generally faster to complete it's passive gold generation.

Mythics

There are two good mythics for to choose from, however generally you would want to go because it gives extra shielding and healing power.

is a perfect choice for . The stats it gives her are ideal for healing and shieling durin long teamfights. It allows her to constantly pump out hp and shields to her teammates. As well as achieving goal of giving your enemy team cancer.
is the alternate. This item gives movement speed to all allies affected by your shields. This includes shield. Along with , movement speed buff would ever stop. Your team will be even faster than a racecar. This item is good when your teammates picked low mobility champions and needs a bit of extra movement speed to either engage or kite. For example: , , and etc.

Items explained

Time to explain the items other than the mythic.
's item build is very straight forward. is the most broken support item you can ever find. 60% heal cut to any enemy champions that was damaged by an shielded ally. Alongside the AOE shield from on all your teammtes,

is generally good on as her is AoE shielding, therefore she could buff her entire team if they are in vicinity. Same logic applies for . I would usually pick one of these two items to purchase.

If you want more healing and shielding during the mid-late game, is a perfect item. It also gives lots of mobility as well as ability haste. My build path is usually > > >

Last to talk about, is a situational item on . This item is to be considered when you instantly die whenever a teamfight happens. Or if there are assassins hunting you down. This item is to delay your death and hopefully enemy will be out of position when they commit too hard for you. As I said previously, you need to be alive to provide utility to your teammates.

Laning and Teamfights

Laning & Teamfight with Sona

has poor laning powers, your objective in lane is to ONLY POKE WITH Q MAX RANGE AND GET STACKS ON YOUR PASSIVE AND GOLD. Avoid extended trades as you barely have any kill pressure early in lane. A lot of new players always tries to go for extended trades and wants to try to get a solo kill but ended up dying and giving away gold to the enemy laners. So please keep in mind your laning objectives as is a scaling champ.

In teamfights you always want to be extra cautious regarding your positioning. needs to be standing together along her backline carries and spamming her and whenever available. Save your for any assasins or potential threats to your carries. Also it is important to try use with in teamfights as it is very underrated. Your green is a 30% damage reduction debuff which acts like a mini .

Conclusion

In all words, stay alive, spam your spells, and you will watch your enemies cry and gain fat LP.

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