Sion with Nidalee
How to Synergize Sion and Nidalee
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Sion Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Sion with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Sion Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Sion in LoL
The Sion Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nidalee helps Sion perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion is an ally to Nidalee, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Nidalee doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played alongside Nidalee 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 Nidalee.
Moreover, when Sion plays with Nidalee on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Nidalee does a poor job of covering Sion during teamfights.
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Is Sion better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Sion that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Nidalee is a below average teammate for Sion. By playing on the same team as Sion, she drops their win rate by -2.6% to 47.6%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Sion and Nidalee that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Sion. That means you need to be cautious when finding Nidalee allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Sion and Nidalee together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to truly master Sion to work well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Sion and Nidalee synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Sion bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Nidalee than with many other common builds. In fact, Sion boasted an average win rate of 47.6% helping carry Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating 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. Of all the rune sets players chose for Sion and Nidalee pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
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