Vel'Koz with Sion
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Sion
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Vel'Koz Sion Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Sion
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Sion
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.
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.
Vel'Koz Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz 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, Vel'Koz sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sion helps Vel'Koz perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Sion, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Sion supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Sion on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sion.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Sion on the same team, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Sion does a poor job of covering Vel'Koz during team fights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Sion?
There is no perfect companion for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, Sion is a relatively poor ally for Vel'Koz. By locking into the same side as Vel'Koz, he drops their win rate by -2.7% to 47.6%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Vel'Koz and Sion that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Sion has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Sion comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Vel'Koz players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Vel'Koz and Sion together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Sion ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to pair well with Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Vel'Koz and Sion synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Sion than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 47.6% helping carry Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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