Alistar with Sion
How to Synergize Alistar and Sion
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Alistar Sion Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Sion
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Sion
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar 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 negative change shows that Sion helps Alistar perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is an ally to Sion, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Sion helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Sion on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Sion. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sion.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Sion on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Sion does a poor job of covering Alistar in teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Sion
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Sion?
There is no perfect ally for Alistar that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Sion is a very typical ally for Alistar. By locking into the same team as Alistar, he increases their win rate by 0.8% to 50.2%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Alistar and Sion that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Sion has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Sion allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Alistar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Alistar and Sion together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Sion ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to pair well with Sion during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Alistar and Sion synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Sion than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 50.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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