Sion with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Sion and Cho'Gath
based on 1,103 Sion with Cho'Gath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sion Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Sion vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Sion with Cho'Gath
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 Cho'Gath Will Play
Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
Sion Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Sion in LoL
The Sion Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, 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 Cho'Gath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Cho'Gath helps Sion perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion is paired with Cho'Gath, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This may indicate that Cho'Gath does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played together with Cho'Gath 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 Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Sion plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Cho'Gath does a decent job of protecting Sion during teamfights.
Synergies between Sion and Cho'Gath
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Is Sion better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no perfect synergy for Sion that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Cho'Gath is a good companion for Sion. By locking into the same team as Sion, he increases their win rate by 1.4% to 51.6%. This shows that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Sion and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Sion. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Cho'Gath teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Sion and Cho'Gath together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sion in order to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Sion and Cho'Gath synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with most other common builds. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 51.6% helping carry Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating 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. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Cho'Gath with Sion are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.