Sion with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Sion and Vel'Koz
based on 2,182 Sion with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sion Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Sion with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Sion Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Sion in LoL
The Sion Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Sion perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion plays on the same team as Vel'Koz, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Vel'Koz supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Sion in teamfights.
Synergies between Sion and Vel'Koz
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Is Sion better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top champion pairing for Sion that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Vel'Koz is a relatively poor companion for Sion. By being on the same side as Sion, he lowers their win rate by -2.6% to 47.6%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Sion and Vel'Koz that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Sion. That means Sion players must be cautious when enlisting Vel'Koz teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Sion players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Sion and Vel'Koz together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sion in order to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Sion and Vel'Koz synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sion boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Sion players should use 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 champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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