Graves with Sion
How to Synergize Graves and Sion
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Graves Sion Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Sion
Tips for Playing as Graves with Sion
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sion helps Graves perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Sion, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Sion provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves 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 synergisticly with Sion.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Sion on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Sion does a poor job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Sion?
There is no perfect companion for Graves that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Sion is a very typical teammate for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 50.8%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Graves and Sion that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Sion has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players need to be very careful when arranging Sion teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Graves and Sion together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Sion ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing 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 truly master Graves to synergize with Sion during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Graves and Sion synergy build consist of Maw of Malmortius, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Sion than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
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