Sion with Alistar
How to Synergize Sion and Alistar
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Sion Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Sion vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Sion with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Sion Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Sion in LoL
The Sion Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sion sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Sion perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion tries to synergize with Alistar, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Alistar provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Alistar.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Alistar on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Alistar does a decent job of covering Sion during teamfights.
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Is Sion better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Sion that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Alistar is a very typical ally for Sion. By being on the same team as Sion, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.2%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Sion and Alistar that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Sion. That means you should be cautious when arranging Alistar teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Sion players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Sion and Alistar together, you probably will not be granting your side much magic damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sion to work well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Sion and Alistar synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Sion used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Alistar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 50.2% when playing alongside Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Sion players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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