Sonja

Sonja アスカ Asuka
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Bio
Faction	Yellow Comet
Specialty	Fog of War missions
Hit	Computers
Miss	Bugs
Skills
CO Power	Enhanced Vision
Super CO Power	Counter Break
Power Meter
Appearances
Games	Advance Wars Advance Wars 2 Dual Strike Re-Boot Camp
Voice Actor	Cassandra Lee Morris (AW1+2:RBC)

	Get me some fresh intel, stat!
— Sonja -

Sonja (Japanese: アスカ Asuka) is a Commanding Officer from Yellow Comet and Kanbei's daughter. She debuted in Advance Wars. She is notable for wearing a different outfit in the Japanese versions of the Advance Wars games than in the American and European releases. In the former she wears a red dress and glasses, in the latter she wears a green dress with no glasses. In Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp, she dons a green dress and glasses, using her glasses in her CO Power animation.

Role

In Advance Wars

Sonja acts as the enemy on a series of three hidden missions, where after splitting up the Orange Star forces she tests the skills of not only the player, but also the Orange Star COs. She is also instrumental in finding out why the nations of Cosmo Land are at war and revealing Sturm. She is captured by Sturm on their first meeting and as such, is one of three unplayable COs for The Final Battle! (the other two being Nell and Sturm himself).

In Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising

Alongside Kanbei and Sensei, Sonja helps repel a Black Hole invasion led by Adder. First she destroys one of Adder's forces, then routs a group of units led by Lash. Sonja can also be selected for the Yellow Comet lab mission, as well as the factory missions for Yellow Comet and Green Earth and the two missions vs. Sturm.

In Advance Wars: Dual Strike

Sonja, Sami, Grit, and Eagle arrive in Omega Land with reinforcements for the Allied Nations. She can be selected from that point on to fight in any mission.

Personality

Sonja is very smart, and she often thinks ahead rather than charge right into battle. She is somewhat a philosopher, and, according to Sami, a smart aleck.

Relationships

Sonja's relationship with Kanbei is an interesting one. Despite being father and daughter, the two serve as foils for each other; Kanbei is an impulsive, honor-driven technophobe whereas Sonja is a calculating and calm prodigy. However, the two rely on each other to cover each other's weaknesses and generally get along.

Sonja also has an odd sort of friendship with Lash. Although the two are both young geniuses, their personalities couldn't be much more different. The two share a rivalry which seems to alternate between friendly and bitter.

Sami is Sonja's other main rival and in their days at military academy, their rivalry was certainly bitter. However, they are on much friendlier terms these days.

Sonja is not particularly close to Sensei but holds a high degree of respect for him.

Skills

Sonja's skills changed a bit over the course of the series, but generally centered around intel and the manipulation thereof. Her signature skills are vision and hidden HP intel.

In Advance Wars

• Day-to-Day (D2D): Sonja's units have one extra space of vision range and their HP is hidden from enemies on the map screen (it is still present in battle animations, however). She has both increased luck and bad luck damage, with the former being up to +25% and the latter up to -15%.
• CO Meter: 30,000G.
• CO Power: Enhanced Vision — Sonja's vision range increases by a further 2 spaces and all woods and reefs are uncovered within her vision range. 110% damage dealt and 90% damage taken by all units.

In Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising

• Day-to-Day (D2D): Sonja's units have one extra space of vision range and their HP is hidden from enemies on the map screen (it is still present in battle animations, however). In addition to the standard up to 10% luck damage, she has the same amount in bad luck damage. Her counterattacks are also 50% stronger.
• CO Meter:
• CO Power: Enhanced Vision — Sonja's vision range increases by a further 1 space and all woods and reefs are uncovered within her vision range. (Standard +10% defense.)
• Super CO Power: Counter Break — Grants the same effects as Enhanced Vision. In addition, Sonja's counterattacks no longer deal increased damage, they happen before the enemy's attacks instead (the battle animations still show as if she counterattacked last). (Standard +10% defense.)

In Advance Wars: Dual Strike

• Day-to-Day (D2D): Sonja's units have one extra space of vision range and their HP is hidden from enemies on the map screen (it is still present in battle animations, however). She has bad luck of up to 5%. Enemy terrain stars are reduced by 1 (min 0, reduced before Lash's star-doubling power).
• CO Meter:
• CO Power: Enhanced Vision — Sonja's vision range increases by a further 1 space and all woods and reefs are uncovered within her vision range. Enemy terrain stars are reduced by 2. (Standard +10% firepower and defense.)
• Super CO Power: Counter Break — Grants the same effects as Enhanced Vision but with a reduction of 3 terrain stars. In addition, Sonja's counterattacks happen before the enemy's attacks. (Standard +10% firepower and defense.)

CO Powers

	English	Japanese	French	German	Spanish	Italian	Dutch	Chinese
CO Power	Enhanced Vision	ワンダーサーチ Wonder Search	Oeil de faucon	Weitsicht	Ultravisión	Occhi di Lince	Visionair	侦察挺进 Recon Advance
Super CO Power	Counter Break	カウンターブレイク Counter Break	Contre-offensive	Klarsichtkonter	Contraataque	Contrattacco	Contraklapper	N/A N/A

Tag Affinities

Tag Partner	Stars	Firepower	English	Japanese	French	German	Spanish	Italian
Kanbei		+30%	Battle Standard	フウリンカザン Art of War	Dynastie Comet	Östliche Weisheit	Sinergia Familiar	Soffio di Vulcano
Sami		+10%	Girl Power	ガールズフィーバー Girls Fever	Forces spéciales	Frauenpower	Amazona Letal	Passione Rosa
Lash		+10%	Brainstorm	パワーオブブレイン Power of Brain	Génies en marche	Geistesblitz	Garga Neuronal	Stritolamente
Sensei	None	+5%	Dual Strike	タッグブレイク Tag Break	Pouvoir relais	Doppel-Gabe	Ataque Dual	Virtù Doppia
Von Bolt	None	-10%	Dual Strike	タッグブレイク Tag Break	Pouvoir relais	Doppel-Gabe	Ataque Dual	Virtù Doppia

Trivia

• According to the Nintendo DREAM strategy guide for Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2, Sonja is 14 years old.

Gallery

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  Sprite in Advance Wars

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  Sprite in Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising

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  Artwork in Famicom Wars DS (Japanese release of Advance Wars: Dual Strike)

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  Special Outfit in Advance Wars: Dual Strike

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  Japanese Special Outfit in Advance Wars: Dual Strike

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  Wallpaper in Advance Wars: Dual Strike

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  Artwork in Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp

References

Commanding Officers of Advance Wars
Orange Star	Andy Sami Max Nell Hachi Jake Rachel
Blue Moon	Olaf Grit Colin Sasha
Green Earth	Eagle Drake Jess Javier
Yellow Comet	Kanbei Sonja Sensei Grimm
Black Hole	Sturm Clone Andy Flak Lash Adder Hawke Jugger Koal Kindle Von Bolt