Garen with Sion
How to Synergize Garen and Sion
based on 1,080 Garen with Sion pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Sion Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Sion
Tips for Playing as Garen with Sion
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sion helps Garen perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Sion, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This may signal that Sion doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen 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.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Sion on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Sion does a poor job of covering Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Sion?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Sion is a very typical companion for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.2%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Garen and Sion that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Sion has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Sion comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Garen and Sion together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of magic damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Sion ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to synergize with Sion during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Garen and Sion synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Sion than with most other common builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 48.2% helping carry Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Garen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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