# Sona Counters Who counters Sona? Best and worst picks against Sona by win rate, plus the lane counters that lead Sona in gold at 15 minutes. Ranked solo data by role and rank. Canonical HTML: https://baronbuff.com/champions/sona/counters/ Markdown URL: https://baronbuff.com/champions/sona/counters.md Language: en ## Breadcrumbs - [Baron Buff](https://baronbuff.com/) - [Champion Tier List](https://baronbuff.com/champions/) - [Sona](https://baronbuff.com/champions/sona/) ## Page Content [Sona guide](https://baronbuff.com/champions/sona/) [Play against Sona](https://baronbuff.com/champions/sona/how-to-play-against/) [Sona counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/sona/counters/) Best and worst picks against Sona in Support at Gold+, ranked by win rate and by gold lead at 15 minutes. Nautilus, Alistar and Janna beat Sona most often. Pantheon, Xerath and Senna win the laning phase against Sona by the widest gold margin. ## Best picks against Sona Highest win rate versus Sona in Support. - 1 [Nautilus](https://baronbuff.com/champions/nautilus/) 628 games 54.0% - 2 [Alistar](https://baronbuff.com/champions/alistar/) 239 games 53.1% - 3 [Janna](https://baronbuff.com/champions/janna/) 464 games 52.4% - 4 [Blitzcrank](https://baronbuff.com/champions/blitzcrank/) 430 games 52.3% - 5 [Lulu](https://baronbuff.com/champions/lulu/) 923 games 52.0% - 6 [Vel'Koz](https://baronbuff.com/champions/velkoz/) 180 games 51.1% ## Worst picks against Sona Lowest win rate versus Sona in Support. - 1 [Xerath](https://baronbuff.com/champions/xerath/) 194 games 41.8% - 2 [Zilean](https://baronbuff.com/champions/zilean/) 231 games 42.0% - 3 [Swain](https://baronbuff.com/champions/swain/) 231 games 43.3% - 4 [Bard](https://baronbuff.com/champions/bard/) 244 games 45.5% - 5 [Senna](https://baronbuff.com/champions/senna/) 437 games 45.8% - 6 [Leona](https://baronbuff.com/champions/leona/) 536 games 46.1% - 7 [Brand](https://baronbuff.com/champions/brand/) 247 games 46.1% - 8 [Tahm Kench](https://baronbuff.com/champions/tahmkench/) 186 games 46.2% - 9 [Karma](https://baronbuff.com/champions/karma/) 403 games 46.6% - 10 [Lux](https://baronbuff.com/champions/lux/) 627 games 46.9% - 11 [Seraphine](https://baronbuff.com/champions/seraphine/) 669 games 46.9% - 12 [Maokai](https://baronbuff.com/champions/maokai/) 115 games 47.0% - 13 [Yuumi](https://baronbuff.com/champions/yuumi/) 409 games 47.2% - 14 [Morgana](https://baronbuff.com/champions/morgana/) 365 games 47.4% - 15 [Neeko](https://baronbuff.com/champions/neeko/) 135 games 47.4% ## Best lane counters vs Sona Largest gold lead over Sona at 15 minutes in Support. - 1 [Pantheon](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pantheon/) 127 games +582 - 2 [Xerath](https://baronbuff.com/champions/xerath/) 112 games +580 - 3 [Senna](https://baronbuff.com/champions/senna/) 168 games +553 - 4 [Vel'Koz](https://baronbuff.com/champions/velkoz/) 115 games +523 - 5 [Swain](https://baronbuff.com/champions/swain/) 157 games +520 - 6 [Pyke](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pyke/) 144 games +467 - 7 [Tahm Kench](https://baronbuff.com/champions/tahmkench/) 112 games +464 - 8 [Lux](https://baronbuff.com/champions/lux/) 422 games +449 - 9 [Morgana](https://baronbuff.com/champions/morgana/) 255 games +430 - 10 [Brand](https://baronbuff.com/champions/brand/) 166 games +360 - 11 [Zyra](https://baronbuff.com/champions/zyra/) 180 games +352 - 12 [Seraphine](https://baronbuff.com/champions/seraphine/) 442 games +252 - 13 [Karma](https://baronbuff.com/champions/karma/) 210 games +155 - 14 [Nautilus](https://baronbuff.com/champions/nautilus/) 324 games +152 - 15 [Thresh](https://baronbuff.com/champions/thresh/) 343 games +99 ## How to play against Sona Lane and teamfight rules that hold regardless of your pick. ### In lane and in teamfights - Punish her before she can stack repeated shields and poke. Force short trades when her lane partner cannot immediately answer. - Stand away from your partner when she walks up with passive ready. Make her choose one target instead of tagging both. - Engage after her W or R is spent, not into her full reset tools. Force her team to fight before she cycles a second heal. - Catch her while she wards instead of hitting the frontline. Sona is strongest when untouched behind grouped allies. - Spread before her R so one cast cannot lock down multiple carries. Re-engage after it misses or hits a low-value target. ## Where Sona is weak Exploit these in draft and in lane. - Sona is extremely fragile, so direct engage can remove her before repeated auras create value. - Sona needs grouped, extended fights to scale her healing and shields, making quick picks especially punishing. ## Sona counters: questions ### Who counters Sona in Support? At Gold+, Nautilus (54.0%), Alistar (53.1%) and Janna (52.4%) have the highest win rates against Sona. ### Who does Sona counter? Sona wins most often against Xerath (41.8%), Zilean (42.0%) and Swain (43.3%). ### Who wins lane against Sona? By gold lead at 15 minutes, Pantheon (+582), Xerath (+580) and Senna (+553) come out of the laning phase furthest ahead of Sona. ### How is the counter list ranked? Best and worst picks use same-lane win rate; lane counters use the average gold difference at 15 minutes between the two laners. Both come from Ranked Solo/Duo at the selected rank with at least 100 games per matchup, and are not adjusted for champion strength. - [Support Tier List](https://baronbuff.com/champions/support/) - [Pantheon counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pantheon/counters/) - [Xerath counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/xerath/counters/) ## Machine-Readable References - [LLM index](https://baronbuff.com/llms.txt) - [Full LLM reference](https://baronbuff.com/llms-full.txt) - [Sitemap](https://baronbuff.com/sitemap.xml)