Sion with Nasus
How to Synergize Sion and Nasus
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Sion Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Sion with Nasus
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 Nasus Will Play
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Sion Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Sion in LoL
The Sion Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, 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 Nasus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nasus helps Sion perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sion tries to synergize with Nasus, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Nasus does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played with Nasus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nasus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nasus.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Nasus on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nasus does a decent job of protecting Sion in team fights.
Synergies between Sion and Nasus
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Is Sion better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no perfect ally for Sion that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Nasus is a very typical teammate for Sion. By playing on the same side as Sion, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 49.2%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Sion and Nasus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Sion. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Nasus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Sion and Nasus together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of support. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sion in order to work well with Nasus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Sion and Nasus synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Sion combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nasus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sion had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing alongside Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip 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 sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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