Swain with Sion
How to Synergize Swain and Sion
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Swain Sion Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Sion
Tips for Playing as Swain with Sion
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.
Advice to Understand How Sion Will Play
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.
Swain Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Swain in LoL
The Swain Sion synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sion, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Swain sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sion helps Swain perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Sion, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Sion provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Sion on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sion.
Additionally, when Swain plays with Sion on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Sion does a poor job of protecting Swain during team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Sion?
There is no one best champion pairing for Swain that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Sion is a very typical companion for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 52.1%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Swain and Sion that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Sion has a much lower diffuclty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Sion comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Swain and Sion together, you may not be giving your other teammates much AD. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Sion teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to work well with Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Swain and Sion synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Sion than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 52.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Swain players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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