Nocturne with Sion
How to Synergize Nocturne and Sion
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Nocturne Sion Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Sion
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Sion
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
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.
Nocturne Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne 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, Nocturne sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sion helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Sion, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Sion helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Sion on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Sion. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sion.
Moreover, when Nocturne 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 indicate that Sion does a poor job of covering Nocturne during teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Sion
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Sion?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Nocturne that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Sion is a pretty good ally for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 53.2%. This shows that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Nocturne and Sion that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Sion has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means Nocturne players must be very careful when arranging Sion allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nocturne and Sion together, you probably will not be giving your side much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Sion teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nocturne in order to pair well with Sion during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Nocturne and Sion synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Experimental Hexplate, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Sion than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 53.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sion with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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