Zed with Sion
How to Synergize Zed and Sion
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Zed Sion Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Sion
Tips for Playing as Zed with Sion
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sion helps Zed perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Sion, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This change may signal that Sion supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Sion on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Sion. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sion.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Sion on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Sion does a poor job of covering Zed during teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Sion
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Is Zed better when played alongside Sion?
There is no perfect ally for Zed that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Sion is a relatively poor teammate for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 46.9%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Zed and Sion that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Sion has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Sion comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Zed and Sion together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Sion ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed to pair well with Sion during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Zed and Sion synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Sion than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 46.9% helping carry Sion with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Sion with Zed are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.