Sion with Swain
How to Synergize Sion and Swain
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Sion Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Swain
Tips for Playing as Sion with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Sion Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Sion in LoL
The Sion Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Sion perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion is paired with Swain, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Swain does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Swain on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Swain does a decent job of covering Sion in teamfights.
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Is Sion better when played alongside Swain?
There is no one best champion pairing for Sion that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Swain is a good ally for Sion. By being on the same side as Sion, he increases their win rate by 1.9% to 52.1%. This shows that there is a good synergy between Sion and Swain that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Sion. That means Sion players need to be careful when finding Swain comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Sion players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Sion and Swain together, you will not be granting your other allies much sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sion to work well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Sion and Swain synergy build consist of Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Sion used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sion boasted an average winrate of 52.1% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Sion players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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