Sion with Skarner
How to Synergize Sion and Skarner
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Sion Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Sion vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Sion with Skarner
Roar of the Slayer is a great setup ability to land a very powerful Decimating Smash.
The Soul Furnace buff displays how much shield strength is remaining, use this information to time its explosion perfectly.
You only have very slight turning ability during Unstoppable Onslaught, so make sure to use it in straight paths.
Advice to Understand How Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Sion Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Sion in LoL
The Sion Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sion sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Skarner helps Sion perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion is an ally to Skarner, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This could signal that Skarner helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played together with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Moreover, when Sion plays with Skarner on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Sion in teamfights.
Synergies between Sion and Skarner
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Is Sion better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top companion for Sion that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Skarner is a decent teammate for Sion. By playing on the same team as Sion, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 51.5%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Sion and Skarner that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Sion. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Skarner comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Sion and Skarner together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sion to work well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Sion and Skarner synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Sion combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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