Malzahar with Sion
How to Synergize Malzahar and Sion
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Malzahar Sion Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Sion
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Sion
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar 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, Malzahar sees a large worsening 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 Malzahar perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is paired with Sion, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Sion supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Sion on the same side, 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 Malzahar plays with Sion on the same side, he on average takes more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Sion does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Sion
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Sion?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Malzahar that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Sion is a very typical ally for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 50.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Malzahar and Sion that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Sion has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Sion comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Malzahar and Sion together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of attack damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Sion ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to synergize with Sion during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Malzahar and Sion synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Sion than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Malzahar players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Sion with Malzahar are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.