Sion with Malzahar
How to Synergize Sion and Malzahar
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Sion Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Sion with Malzahar
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 Malzahar Will Play
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Sion Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Sion in LoL
The Sion Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, 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 Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Sion perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sion plays on the same team as Malzahar, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Malzahar supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Sion plays with Malzahar on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Sion during team fights.
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Is Sion better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal companion for Sion that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Sion. By locking into the same team as Sion, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Sion and Malzahar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Sion. That means Sion players should be very careful when lining up Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Sion players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Sion and Malzahar together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sion in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Sion and Malzahar synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sion had an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Sion players 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 combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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