Riven with Sion
How to Synergize Riven and Sion
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Riven Sion Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Sion
Tips for Playing as Riven with Sion
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Riven in LoL
The Riven 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, Riven sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sion helps Riven perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Sion, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Sion supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Sion on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Sion.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Sion on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Sion does a poor job of protecting Riven in team fights.
Synergies between Riven and Sion
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Is Riven better when played alongside Sion?
There is no one best companion for Riven that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Sion is a very typical teammate for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 50.0%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Riven and Sion that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Sion has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Sion allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Riven players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Riven and Sion together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Sion ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to synergize with Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Riven and Sion synergy build include Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Sion than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 50.0% helping carry Sion with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Riven and Sion pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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