Sion with Maokai
How to Synergize Sion and Maokai
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Sion Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Sion with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Sion Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Sion in LoL
The Sion Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Sion perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sion is paired with Maokai, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Maokai provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played with Maokai 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 synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Maokai on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Sion during teamfights.
Synergies between Sion and Maokai
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Is Sion better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal synergy for Sion that will always be his top teammate. However, Maokai is a pretty good companion for Sion. By playing on the same side as Sion, he improves their win rate by 2.0% to 52.2%. This signals that there is a good bond between Sion and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Sion. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Sion and Maokai together, you probably will not be giving your side much AD. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Sion in order to synergize with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Sion and Maokai synergy build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Sion bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sion boasted an average winrate of 52.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.2% win rate overall.
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