Sion with Kindred
How to Synergize Sion and Kindred
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Sion Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Sion vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Sion with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Sion Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Sion in LoL
The Sion Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kindred helps Sion perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion is an ally to Kindred, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Kindred does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that their participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played with Kindred on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kindred. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kindred.
Moreover, when Sion plays with Kindred on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Sion during team fights.
Synergies between Sion and Kindred
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Is Sion better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no one best ally for Sion that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Kindred is a below average ally for Sion. By locking into the same team as Sion, they lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 47.9%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Sion and Kindred that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kindred has a lower difficulty than Sion. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Kindred allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Sion and Kindred together, you will not be giving your other allies much magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sion in order to synergize with Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Sion and Kindred synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Sion used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Kindred than with most other common item sets. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 47.9% when playing alongside Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Minion Dematerializer, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Sion and Kindred pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kindred with Sion are given for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.