Bard vs Sona SUPPORT Matchup Guide

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Bard into Sonamedium

Overview

Use brush control and wall stuns to create engage angles and ADC follow-up windows.
Prioritize roaming after crashing waves to leverage paths and mid pressure.
Protect your ADC from Sona's poke by denying her brush vision and timing shrines for sustain.

Punish Sona's cooldown by engaging with stun and follow up with meep autos.
Use to shield your ADC after Sona commits poke or to disengage her all-in attempts.
Avoid standing in Sona's aura to reduce her empowered poke damage and slow.

When is on cooldown, Sona can safely poke and zone your ADC with empowered autos.
Sona's level 6 stun forces you to respect engage windows and hold peel cooldowns.
Roaming without wave crash or vision control risks your ADC being exposed to Sona's turret pressure and poke.

Win the level 2 race with + to enable short trades and ADC aggression.
Hold lane near your side to secure brush control and safe chime collection for roaming power.
Crash the wave quickly before roaming to prevent your ADC from being vulnerable to Sona's poke and turret pressure.

Level 2 unlocks and for stronger engage and peel, enabling safer trades.
Level 3 grants for roaming, increasing map pressure and forcing Sona to play cautiously.
Level 6 allows isolating targets or disengaging Sona's all-in, shifting fight dynamics.

Use wave crashes to create roam windows and pressure mid or jungle with .
Control river vision to set up picks with or protect your ADC from Sona's engage.
Force Sona to miss poke by threatening roams and engage only when is available for stun follow-up.

Tactical tip

For Bard vs Sona, read overview, trading pattern, and danger windows first for a fast Support lane check.