Sion with Brand
How to Synergize Sion and Brand
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Sion Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Brand
Tips for Playing as Sion with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Sion Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Sion in LoL
The Sion Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Brand helps Sion perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion plays on the same team as Brand, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Brand supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played alongside Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Brand.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Brand on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Brand does a poor job of protecting Sion in teamfights.
Synergies between Sion and Brand
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Is Sion better when played alongside Brand?
There is no one best companion for Sion that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Brand is a pretty good teammate for Sion. By being on the same side as Sion, he raises their win rate by 1.9% to 52.1%. This proves that there is a good synergy between Sion and Brand that results in them performing better together than alone.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Sion. That means Sion players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Brand allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Sion and Brand together, you will not be providing your side a lot of AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Brand teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Sion in order to work well with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Sion and Brand synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Titanic Hydra, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Sion used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Brand than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 52.1% helping carry Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you 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 rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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