Sona ARAM Mayhem Build

Maven of the Strings. A strong pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: #21 of 173 champions.

APatch 26.21SupportMageNo runes in Mayhem

Tier: A
Win rate: 53.1%
Pick rate: 3.7%
Rank: #21 of 173
Games: 850,169
Patch: 26.21

How to play Sona in ARAM Mayhem

Sona is a strong pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: tier A, #21 of 173 champions, with a 53.1% win rate over 850,169 games.

83% of Sona's damage to champions is magic, so enemy magic resist is what slows it down. It keeps its team alive with 10,160 healing and 7,241 shielding on teammates in an average game; stay behind your frontline and save it for the fights that matter. It dies only 8.6 times per game on average, fewer than most.

The Support build, support items that heal and shield allies, is both the most played and the top-ranked path: Moonstone Renewer, Whispering Circlet and Staff of Flowing Water, with a 55.3% win rate over 463,899 games. On this build 51% of players skip boots and spend the slot on another item.

The cards that do best on Sona are Windspeaker's Blessing, Infinite Recursion and Spirit Bomb. Cards built around healing yourself fill most of the top of its list, followed by ability haste. Skip Can't Touch This and Ice Cold when you can: they do worst on Sona. A pair to look for: Infinite Recursion with Spirit Bomb.

Take Flash and Heal (8% of players); Ghost is the common alternative. Max Q (Hymn of Valor) first, then W, then E. Players who max W first instead win a little more often, so it is worth trying.

Sona ARAM Mayhem build

ARAMKit groups every Sona game by build path. The top-ranked path comes first, with the items most players start with, buy first and add later.

Support build · top ranked

55.3% win rate · 61% of Sona games · 463,899 games

Start

Tear of the Goddess
Bandleglass Mirror

Core items, in buying order

Moonstone Renewer
Whispering Circlet
Staff of Flowing Water

Boots on the Support build for Sona, top ranked first, with the share of players who buy them
Boots, best first	Players
No boots	51%
Ionian Boots of Lucidity	43%

Situational, after the core

Dawncore54% buy it
Sword of Blossoming Dawn5% buy it
Ardent Censer33% buy it
Echoes of Helia11% buy it
Archangel's Staff6% buy it
Rabadon's Deathcap3% buy it

Other build paths

Other Sona build paths with share of games, win rate and core items
Path	Core items	Games	Win rate
APLich Bane, Luden's Echo, Rabadon's Deathcap		12.0%	49.4%

Games: the share of all Sona games that went this way.

Most bought items

Whispering Circlet70% of games
Moonstone Renewer68% of games
Ardent Censer41% of games
Dawncore38% of games
Ionian Boots of Lucidity35% of games
Staff of Flowing Water32% of games
Archangel's Staff20% of games
Lich Bane20% of games
Luden's Echo20% of games
Redemption15% of games

Best augments for Sona

Every card with enough Sona games, by tier and best first within each tier. Tiers are Sona's own: a card can be S tier here and C tier on another champion. As Riot's policy asks, cards are shown by tier and order only, never with a win rate. Click a card for its own page; the augment tier list ranks them over all champions.

PrismaticBest prismatic cards

GoldBest gold cards

SilverBest silver cards

S- and A-tier cards for Sona

7 S tier and 37 A tier, best first.

The S- and A-tier augments for Sona in ARAM Mayhem, best first, with their rarity and what they do
Augment	Rarity	Tier	What it does
Windspeaker's Blessing	Prismatic	Tier S	Your Healing and Shielding also increases the target's Armor and Magic Resist by 30–60 (by level) for 3 seconds.
Infinite Recursion	Prismatic	Tier S	Gain 60 Ability Haste, plus 3 Ability Haste per takedown.
Spirit Bomb	Prismatic	Tier S	Healing and Shielding builds up a Spirit Bomb. At max stacks, toss the Spirit Bomb at your lowest Health ally. After reaching the target, it…
Enchanting Butterflies	Gold	Tier S	Healing or Shielding allied champions gathers Butterflies around you. After collecting 7 Butterflies, damaging an enemy champion fires all…
Blue Barrier	Silver	Tier S	Gain 200–450 (by level) % of the Max Mana Mana you spend as a Shield for 1.5 seconds. Shields up to 300–800 (by level)
Shrink Engine	Gold	Tier S	Takedowns grant a stack that makes you 4% smaller, grants 8 Ability Haste, and 1% Movement Speed. Lose 65% stacks on death…
Purist - Caster	Silver	Tier S	Conversion Rate: 0.65 Ability Haste per 1% Attack Speed
Wee Woo Wee Woo	Gold	Tier A	Gain up to 50% Move Speed toward nearby allies based on their missing Health. Your healing and shielding are also increased up to 50% based…
Sonata	Gold	Tier A	Every 10 seconds, automatically cast the Aria of Perseverence and Song of Celerity in an alternating melody. Aria of Perseverence heals…
Overloaded	Prismatic	Tier A	Using another Ability resets the cooldown of selected ability.
Back To Basics	Prismatic	Tier A	Your Ultimate Ability is sealed. Gain 35% Ability Damage, Healing, Shielding, and 70 Ability Haste.
Empyrean Promise	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain Heal & Shield Power 15% Heal and Shield power. Gain Empyrean Promise as a Summoner Spell. Vigilance Teleport to an ally and grant…
Weapon of Destiny	Gold	Tier A	Your first Legendary Item becomes the Weapon of Destiny. When a champion you damaged within the last 3 seconds dies, increase the Weapon of…
Mercy's Strike	Gold	Tier A	After healing or shielding your ally with selected ability, your next basic attack gains 300 bonus attack range, 75% attack speed and deals…
Mad Scientist	Prismatic	Tier A	On each Revive, you grow large (gaining 30% Adaptive Force and 20% Health) or tiny (gaining 70 Ability Haste and 40% Movement Speed).
Hand of Baron	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 25% Adaptive Force. Nearby allied minions are greatly empowered.
Fruitify	Silver	Tier A	Scoring a Takedown causes the slain champion to explode into 3–6 (by level) Fruit. Fruit restores 6% of your maximum health and restores 6%…
Recursion	Gold	Tier A	Gain 60 Ability Haste.
Donation	Gold	Tier A	Receive 1750 Gold. Thanks chat!:)
Bread And Jam	Gold	Tier A	Your selected ability gains 100 Ability Haste.
Sound Barrier	Silver	Tier A	Shielding an ally grants (20–40 (by level) %+50% Heal & Shield Power) Move Speed and Ghost decaying over 1.5 seconds. Cooldown per target…
Archmage	Prismatic	Tier A	Casting a spell refunds another random spell's cost by 30% of the original spell's Cooldown.
First-Aid Kit	Silver	Tier A	Gain 20% Heal and Shield Power.
The Boom and the Bass	Gold	Tier A	After casting an Ability, your next Attack within 6 seconds is faster, deals Melee (50–200 (by level) +50% Bonus Attack Damage+30% Ability…
Omni Soul	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 3 random Dragon Souls.
Eureka	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain (30% Ability Power) Ability Haste.
Mind to Matter	Silver	Tier A	Gain (50% Max Mana) Health.
Transmute: Prismatic	Gold	Tier A	Gain a random Augment Tier Prismatic Augment.
Sonic Boom	Silver	Tier A	Buffing, healing, or Shielding your ally deals 30–150 (by level) true damage and Slows enemies surrounding them by 30% for 2 seconds (2…
With Haste	Gold	Tier A	Gain (70% Ability Haste) Move Speed.
Leg Day	Silver	Tier A	Gain 50 Movement Speed and 50% Slow Resist.
Goldrend	Prismatic	Tier A	Damaging a champion with Attacks or Abilities deals an additional (50–150 (by level) +20% Ability Power +40% Bonus Attack Damage) magic…
Ocean Soul	Silver	Tier A	Gain the Ocean Soul, granting high Health and Mana Regen after damaging enemies.
Protein Shake	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain Heal & Shield Power (25+35% Bonus Armor+35% Bonus Magic Resist)% Heal and Shield Power based on bonus Armor and Magic Resist.
Ultimate Awakening	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 30 Ultimate Ability Haste. After using your Ultimate, refresh your basic abilities and gain 300 basic ability haste for 15s. (20s…
Homeguard	Silver	Tier A	Gain 100% Movement Speed, disabled for 6 seconds after taking damage.
Stats on Stats!	Gold	Tier A	Gain 3 Stat Anvils, with a higher chance of Gold and Prismatic Anvils!
Ok Boomerang	Gold	Tier A	Autocast a boomerang at a nearby enemy every 7 seconds, dealing (40–200 (by level) +30% Bonus Attack Damage+20% Ability Power) adaptive…
Stats!	Silver	Tier A	Gain 2 Stat Anvils!
Wooglet's Witchcap	Prismatic	Tier A	QUEST: Possess Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass. REWARD: Get Wooglet's Witchcap.
Upgrade Sword of Blossoming Dawn	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 100% Attack Speed. Increase Sword of Blossoming Dawn's healing to 250% when you attack enemy champions.
All For You	Gold	Tier A	Your Heals and Shields are 30% stronger when used on an ally.
Transmute: Gold	Silver	Tier A	Gain a random Augment Tier Gold Augment.
Forged By The Master	Silver	Tier A	Your Item and Augment damage are increased by 45%.

Average on Sona
40 cards, best first

Below average on Sona
27 cards, best first

Weakest on Sona
9 cards, best first

Best first augment for Sona

Your first card decides the early fights, and a card that is great as a first pick can be a weak fourth. ARAMKit ranks Sona's cards for each pick on its own; these are the top five per pick, with their tier in that pick. For the first pick, Windspeaker's Blessing, Infinite Recursion and Enchanting Butterflies come out on top.

The best augments for Sona in each pick of an ARAM Mayhem game, best first, with their tier in that pick
#	First pick	Second pick	Third pick	Fourth pick
1	Windspeaker's BlessingTier S	Bread And JamTier S	Windspeaker's BlessingTier S	Windspeaker's BlessingTier S
2	Infinite RecursionTier S	Windspeaker's BlessingTier S	Spirit BombTier S	Spirit BombTier S
3	Enchanting ButterfliesTier S	Spirit BombTier S	Blue BarrierTier S	Blue BarrierTier S
4	Spirit BombTier S	Enchanting ButterfliesTier S	Purist - CasterTier S	Enchanting ButterfliesTier A
5	Shrink EngineTier S	Blue BarrierTier S	Enchanting ButterfliesTier A	Wee Woo Wee WooTier A

Strong card pairs

Two cards that do especially well together on Sona, best pair first.

Summoner spells and skill order

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal8% of players · 55.0% win rate
Flash + Ghost54% of players · 53.9% win rate
Flash + Clarity6% of players · 54.2% win rate

Skill order

QHymn of Valor
WAria of Perseverance
ESong of Celerity

Max Q first. 43% of players use this order (52.5% win rate); put points in R whenever you can. Maxing W first (38% of players) wins 56.3%.

Sona in an average Mayhem game

Averages per game over every game on this patch.

K / D / A: 5.6 / 8.6 / 39.5
KDA: 6.31
Damage to champions: 20,892
Damage taken: 29,688
Self-mitigated: 21,898
Healing on allies: 10,160
Shielding on allies: 7,241
Crowd control: 16 s
Kill participation: 85%
Game length: 16:08

Damage type

Physical 11%Magic 83%True 5%

Questions and answers

What is the best Sona build in ARAM Mayhem?

On patch 26.21 ARAMKit ranks the Support build first for Sona: Moonstone Renewer, Whispering Circlet and Staff of Flowing Water. It is also the most played build.

What are the best augments for Sona in ARAM Mayhem?

The S-tier cards for Sona, best first: Windspeaker's Blessing, Infinite Recursion, Spirit Bomb, Enchanting Butterflies and Blue Barrier. The full list by tier is on this page.

Is Sona good in ARAM Mayhem?

Sona is tier A on patch 26.21, #21 of 173 champions, with a 53.1% win rate over 850,169 games. That makes it a strong pick in ARAM Mayhem right now.

What is the best first augment for Sona in ARAM Mayhem?

For Sona's first pick on patch 26.21: Windspeaker's Blessing, Infinite Recursion, Enchanting Butterflies, Spirit Bomb and Shrink Engine, best first. Cards rank differently in later picks; the table on this page has all four.

Other Supports in ARAM Mayhem

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ARAM Mayhem tier list
Every champion by tier on patch 26.21.
ARAM Mayhem augment tier list
Every card from S to D over all champions.
All Mayhem builds
Pick a champion from the full list.
ARAM Mayhem rules
Augment levels, rerolls and why there are no runes.
ARAM Mayhem guide
How the mode, the cards and the picks work.
Sona counters
Its lane matchups on Summoner's Rift.
ARAM Mayhem overlay
The card picker and build in the app.

Source: ARAMKit, used with permission. Patch 26.21, 23,177,263 ARAM Mayhem games, data of October 28, 2026. Riot keeps Mayhem games out of its public match API, so these aggregates come from ARAMKit. Card tiers are shown without win rates, as Riot's developer policy asks.