Akshan with Sion
How to Synergize Akshan and Sion
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Akshan Sion Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Sion
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Sion
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Understand How Sion Will Play
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.
Akshan Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Sion synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sion, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sion helps Akshan perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan is an ally to Sion, they sees a small increase in their complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Sion helps provide cover for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played together with Sion on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Sion.
Additionally, when Akshan plays with Sion on the same side, they often receives a little more damage than when they fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Sion does a poor job of protecting Akshan during team fights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Sion?
There is no ideal companion for Akshan that will no matter what be their top teammate. Yet, overall, Sion is a decent ally for Akshan. By playing on the same side as Akshan, he improves their win rate by 2.7% to 51.7%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Akshan and Sion that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Sion has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means Akshan players must be careful when finding Sion allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Akshan players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by bringing Akshan and Sion together, you may not be giving your side very much magic damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Sion teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to synergize with Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Akshan and Sion synergy build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan bought at least these three great items in their build, they did much better as an ally of Sion than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 51.7% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Sion with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Akshan and Sion pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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