Gnar with Sion
How to Synergize Gnar and Sion
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Gnar Sion Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Sion
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Sion
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar 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, Gnar 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 negative change shows that Sion helps Gnar perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Sion, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Sion provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Sion on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Sion. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sion.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Sion on the same side, he on average receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Sion does a poor job of protecting Gnar during team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Sion
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Sion?
There is no ideal ally for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Sion is a very typical ally for Gnar. By playing on the same side as Gnar, he increases their win rate by 0.3% to 48.3%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Gnar and Sion that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Sion has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Sion teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Gnar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by bringing Gnar and Sion together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Sion ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to work well with Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Gnar and Sion synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Sion than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 48.3% helping carry Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Gnar players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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