Sion with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Sion and Tahm Kench
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Sion Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Sion with Tahm Kench
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 Tahm Kench Will Play
Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
Sion Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Sion in LoL
The Sion Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, 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 Tahm Kench. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tahm Kench helps Sion perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sion plays on the same team as Tahm Kench, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Tahm Kench does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Sion plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of protecting Sion in teamfights.
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Is Sion better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no ideal companion for Sion that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a very typical teammate for Sion. By being on the same team as Sion, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 49.9%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Sion and Tahm Kench that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Sion. That means Sion players don't need to be very careful when arranging Tahm Kench comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Sion and Tahm Kench together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Tahm Kench ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your 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 in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Sion and Tahm Kench synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Sion combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 49.9% helping carry Tahm Kench with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Sion players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Minion Dematerializer, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Sion and Tahm Kench pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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