Darius with Sion
How to Synergize Darius and Sion
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Darius Sion Synergy Summary
Best Darius vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Sion
Tips for Playing as Darius with Sion
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Sion helps Darius perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius is an ally to Sion, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may signal that Sion doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played alongside Sion on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sion.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Sion on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Sion does a poor job of protecting Darius during teamfights.
Synergies between Darius and Sion
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Is Darius better when played alongside Sion?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Darius that will always be his best ally. Yet, Sion is a very typical companion for Darius. By playing on the same team as Darius, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 50.0%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Darius and Sion that results in them performing better together than alone.
Sion has a greater difficulty than Darius. That means you need to be careful when arranging Sion teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Darius players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Darius and Sion together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much AP. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Sion ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Darius in order to pair well with Sion during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Darius and Sion synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Force of Nature. When Darius bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Sion than with most other common builds. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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