Illaoi with Sion
How to Synergize Illaoi and Sion
based on 530 Illaoi with Sion pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Sion Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Sion
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Sion
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Sion synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sion, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sion helps Illaoi perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi is an ally to Sion, she gets a small increase in her complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Sion provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Sion on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Sion.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Sion on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Sion does a poor job of protecting Illaoi in team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Sion
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Sion?
There is no top ally for Illaoi that will always be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Sion is a very typical teammate for Illaoi. By being on the same side as Illaoi, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 49.4%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Illaoi and Sion that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Sion has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players should be very careful when enlisting Sion allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Illaoi and Sion together, you may not be providing your side very much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Sion ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 truly master Illaoi to synergize with Sion during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Illaoi and Sion synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Sion than with many other common item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 49.4% helping carry Sion with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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