Sona vs LeBlanc Counter Pick

The sample deserves the first word: 101 games on patch 16.13.1 is close to the minimum that produces a published figure, so the 58.4% Sona posts should be read as a strong lean rather than a settled fact. What supports it is that LeBlanc is a 9-difficulty mid lane assassin operating outside her role, while Sona rates 4 and asks far less of the player.

Her kit is built to delete one target. Sigil of Malice marks, and any follow-up ability detonates it; Distortion dashes and returns her to the starting point within four seconds; Ethereal Chains roots after 1.5 seconds of contact; Mimic repeats a basic spell. Against a support with 550 attack range and continuous healing that sequence has to kill outright or it achieves little, and Sona‘s Aria of Perseverance restores health to herself and a wounded ally on every cast. Mirror Image gives LeBlanc one free escape below 40% health, a second of invisibility and a decoy, which is genuine insurance but generates no lane pressure. She is frail where it counts too, 598 health and 22 armor at level 1 against 550 and 26, with 340 move speed against 325 as her clearest margin. Her damage is entirely magic against a shared 30 base magic resist, so the burst is genuine on the occasions the full sequence connects.