Sion with Olaf
How to Synergize Sion and Olaf
based on 321 Sion with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sion Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Sion vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Sion with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Sion Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Sion in LoL
The Sion Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Olaf helps Sion perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sion is paired with Olaf, he sees a measurable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Olaf does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played together with Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Olaf. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Olaf.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Olaf on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Olaf does a decent job of covering Sion during team fights.
Synergies between Sion and Olaf
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Is Sion better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no one best synergy for Sion that will always be his top teammate. However, Olaf is a terrible ally for Sion. By locking into the same side as Sion, he decreases their win rate by -5.0% to 45.2%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Sion and Olaf that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Sion. That means Sion players don't need to be cautious when arranging Olaf comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Sion and Olaf together, you may not be granting your team much AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Sion Olaf Synergy Build and Stats
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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 synergize with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Sion and Olaf synergy build include Warmog's Armor, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Sion used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Olaf than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sion boasted an average win rate of 45.2% when playing alongside Olaf with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Olaf with Sion are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.