Sona
Hardest matchups for Sona in Support (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Leona, 
Blitzcrank, 
Braum. Easiest: 
Ashe, 
Camille, 
Zoe.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into SonaOn the pro tier list
Sona on patch 16.22
- Support52.0%#6 of 77A5,936 games
- steady since 16.21
Sona’s main role on patch 16.22 is Support: a 52.0% win rate across 5,936 Emerald games, #6 of 77 Support champions on the tier list (grade A), picked in 2.4% of games. Since patch 16.21, Sona Support has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.0 points across 40,485 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support99% of its games | A | 50.8%50.8% raw ±0.8 | 16,495 | 2.4%0.1% banned | 51.0%48.2% first time |
| Bot0% of its games | too few games | 50.0%50.0% raw ±16.8 | 34 | 0.0%0.1% banned | 51.4%47.1% first time |
| Mid0% of its games | too few games | 49.8%42.9% raw ±18.5 | 28 | 0.0%0.1% banned | 51.6%46.9% first time |
| Top0% of its games | too few games | 49.8%42.9% raw ±18.5 | 28 | 0.0%0.1% banned | 51.4%47.0% first time |
| Jungle0% of its games | too few games | 49.9%0.0% raw ±98.0 | 1 | 0.0%0.1% banned | 51.4% |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Sona’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Sona, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Sona
Lane leads and team bans
What Sona’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Sona than the other team does in the same games (122,592 games). The other team banned before Sona was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Sona was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Sona is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Enchanter
56.2%7,402 games - Mana stack
56.5%3,850 games - AP burst
56.3%212 games - Tank
56.6%126 games - AP sustained
55.8%43 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Sona does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
17,532 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Heal51.4% · 14,240 games
Summon AerySorcery + Resolve · 51.6%
Manaflow Band · Celerity · Gathering Storm · Conditioning · RevitalizeShards: Adaptive Force · Move Speed · Health Scaling
Support item: Bloodsong · 52.7%
Key items: Echoes of Helia → Archangel's Staff · 59.0%
Boots: Boots of Swiftness · 56.9%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Heal51.4%14,240 games · 81% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Flash + Ignite48.9%698 games · 4.0% pick rate · same players: −1.1 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Exhaust + Flash49.8%2,482 games · 14% pick rate · same players: −1.2 pts vs the usual
Keystones
- Summon Aery + Resolve51.6%9,659 games · 55% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Summon Aery + Inspiration51.5%2,297 games · 13% pick rate · same players: −1.2 pts vs the usual
Summon Aery + Precision51.2%4,314 games · 25% pick rate · same players: −1.6 pts vs the usual
Arcane Comet + Inspiration43.8%379 games · 2.2% pick rate · same players: −2.2 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Minor runes with Summon Aery
- Manaflow Band51.5%99% take it
- Celerity51.5%35% take it
Transcendence51.3%64% take it
- Gathering Storm51.5%80% take it
Scorch51.1%20% take it
- Revitalize51.7%98% take it
- Conditioning51.8%80% take it
Bone Plating50.5%14% take it
Second Wind54.4%2.9% take it
Font of Life49.2%2.7% take it
- Adaptive Force51.2%67% take it
- Ability Haste51.0%31% take it
- Move Speed51.5%34% take it
- Adaptive Force50.8%64% take it
- Health Scaling50.3%2.4% take it
- Health Scaling51.2%69% take it
- Health50.6%27% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist50.1%4.0% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Sona’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Sona’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Sona does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Sona wins 49.6%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 51.8%. That gap ranks it 160 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 4.9K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Sona in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | 49.8%1W 2L | 0%0% in any lane | 100% counter | +38 gold | — |
How much knowing Sona pays
Players on their Mastery band win 2.2 points more on Sona than first-timers do: #160 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Sona players win 51.8%: #120 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The fitted curve levels off at about 52.0%, and is half-way up by ~10K points.
SonaDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Sona ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Soraka, Janna, Alistar.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.