Sion with Irelia
How to Synergize Sion and Irelia
based on 1,322 Sion with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sion Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Sion vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Sion with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Sion Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Sion in LoL
The Sion Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Irelia helps Sion perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sion is an ally to Irelia, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Irelia does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played together with Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Irelia.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Irelia on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Sion during team fights.
Synergies between Sion and Irelia
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Is Sion better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no one best champion pairing for Sion that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Irelia is a very typical ally for Sion. By being on the same team as Sion, she drops their win rate by -0.3% to 49.9%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Sion and Irelia that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Sion. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Irelia allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Sion players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Sion and Irelia together, you may not be giving your side very much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sion to work well with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Sion and Irelia synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Irelia than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sion had an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Irelia with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Minion Dematerializer, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Sion and Irelia pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
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