Rakan with Sion
How to Synergize Rakan and Sion
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Rakan Sion Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Sion
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Sion
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan 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, Rakan 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 worsening shows that Sion helps Rakan perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is an ally to Sion, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Sion helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played together with Sion on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sion.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Sion on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Sion does a poor job of covering Rakan in teamfights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Sion?
There is no one best ally for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Sion is a very typical ally for Rakan. By being on the same team as Rakan, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Rakan and Sion that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Sion has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players don't need to be careful when enlisting Sion teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Rakan players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Rakan and Sion together, you may not be providing your other allies very much AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Sion ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Rakan to synergize with Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to get in your Rakan and Sion synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Sion than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 50.5% when playing alongside Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Sion with Rakan are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.