Sion with Naafiri
How to Synergize Sion and Naafiri
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Sion Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Sion with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Sion Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Sion in LoL
The Sion Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Naafiri helps Sion perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion is an ally to Naafiri, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Naafiri does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played together with Naafiri on the same side, 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 alongside Naafiri.
Moreover, when Sion plays with Naafiri on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Naafiri does a decent job of covering Sion during teamfights.
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Is Sion better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Sion that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Naafiri is a very typical teammate for Sion. By playing on the same side as Sion, they improves their win rate by 0.8% to 51.0%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Sion and Naafiri that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Sion. That means Sion players don't need to be very careful when finding Naafiri allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Sion players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Sion and Naafiri together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much magic damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sion to work well with Naafiri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Sion and Naafiri synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Sion included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Naafiri than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sion boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when playing alongside Naafiri with this build.
To have the best 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. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Naafiri with Sion are presented for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.