Maven of the Strings
Roles and difficulty from the global official site, lane from the China-server official site
| Rank tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Ban Rate | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ranks | 48.8% | 2.3%#28 | 0.5% | D |
| Diamond+ | 51.8% | 3.7%#20 | 0.3% | D |
| Master+ | 51.9% | 4.3%#19 | 0.3% | D |
| Challenger | 51.6% | 7.5%#7 | 0.8% | C |
| Rift Apex | 52.3% | 9.9%#4 | 1.2% | A |
The tier list shows Master+ figures by default.
Taken from the in-game loadout screen as of 2026-10-07. The pick count and win rate are shown exactly as the game reports them.
Max Skill 1 for early poke and lane control, then level Skill 2 next to increase your healing from mid game onward.
Early on, poke and pressure with Skill 1 and the passive empowered auto-attack stun. Sona is among the most fragile champions, though. Watch your positioning, do not force kills, and wait for your mid-game scaling.
Sona's strength shows once the team starts moving as a group. Keep cycling Skill 2 heals and shields and Skill 3 movement speed. That lets your team set up vision and rotate to objectives ahead of the enemy.
Late game, with high ability haste, spamming Skill 2 makes your whole team much harder to kill. Keep the passive stun ready at all times. You become the backbone of teamfights, supporting allies with your auras.
In teamfights, keep adjusting your position so every ally sits inside your auras while you cycle skills. When an enemy assassin dives, stop them with the passive stun. Send your Ult wave through the enemy team to break their formation.
Since her rework, Sona's empowered auto-attack always stuns, making it her key self-peel tool. If you spend it on casual poke, you have nothing left when the enemy jungler or an assassin dives you. Track your stacks at all times and keep the stun ready for an enemy champion.
Stun with the empowered passive auto, then follow up with Skill 1.
Move in with Skill 3, stun several enemies with Ult, then damage them with Skill 1.
| Details | LVL 1 | LVL 2 | LVL 3 | LVL 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | 60 | 65 | 70 | 75 |
| Base Damage | 40 | 80 | 120 | 160 |
| Bonus Damage | 8 | 13 | 18 | 23 |
| Details | LVL 1 | LVL 2 | LVL 3 | LVL 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | 85 | 90 | 95 | 100 |
| Heal | 35 | 50 | 65 | 80 |
| Shield | 25 | 50 | 75 | 100 |
| Details | LVL 1 | LVL 2 | LVL 3 | LVL 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS | 15% | 16% | 17% | 18% |
| MS | 10% | 11% | 12% | 13% |
| Details | LVL 1 | LVL 2 | LVL 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooldown | 80 | 75 | 70 |
| Base Damage | 35 | 60 | 85 |
| Slow | 25% | 30% | 35% |
A three-step guide set by the official champion library. For difficulty, a higher number means harder to play.
Critical damage is 200% for every champion. These figures exclude items and runes.
Our take
Sona's heal drops by 10 at every rank, so she props up her lane partner less through long trades. Crescendo is unchanged at rank 1 but 10 seconds longer at max rank, which decides whether she has a second ultimate for back-to-back fights late. She still tops her team up between skirmishes, but she can be forced off a lane far more easily.
Our take
The heal goes up by 20 at every rank, a large jump in how much Sona can hold a lane together. Song of Celerity gives her 5% more movement speed on herself, which helps her fix a bad position or slip out of a collapsing fight. For a champion this fragile once someone closes the gap, extra speed converts directly into survival. She loses far fewer early trades as a result.
