Sion with Aphelios
How to Synergize Sion and Aphelios
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Sion Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Sion with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Sion Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Sion in LoL
The Sion Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Sion perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sion is an ally to Aphelios, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Aphelios does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played alongside Aphelios on the same team, 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 synergisticly with Aphelios.
Moreover, when Sion plays with Aphelios on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Sion during team fights.
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Is Sion better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Sion that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a not very good companion for Sion. By locking into the same side as Sion, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Sion and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Sion. That means Sion players should be careful when finding Aphelios allies to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Sion and Aphelios together, you may not be granting your team enough magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sion to synergize with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Sion and Aphelios synergy build include Unending Despair, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Sion used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sion had an average winrate of 48.8% when playing alongside Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip 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 picked for Sion and Aphelios pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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