Aphelios with Sion
How to Synergize Aphelios and Sion
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Aphelios Sion Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Sion
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Sion
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Sion synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sion, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aphelios sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sion helps Aphelios perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Sion, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Sion helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Sion on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sion.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Sion on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Sion does a poor job of protecting Aphelios during teamfights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Sion?
There is no one best ally for Aphelios that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Sion is a very typical companion for Aphelios. By being on the same team as Aphelios, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 48.8%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Aphelios and Sion that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Sion has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Sion teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Aphelios and Sion together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Sion ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to synergize with Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Aphelios and Sion synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Sion than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Aphelios players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
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