Leona with Sion
How to Synergize Leona and Sion
based on 3,259 Leona with Sion pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Sion Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Sion
Tips for Playing as Leona with Sion
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Leona in LoL
The Leona Sion synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sion, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sion helps Leona perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona tries to synergize with Sion, she observes a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Sion supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Sion on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Sion. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Sion.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Sion on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Sion does a poor job of covering Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Sion?
There is no one best champion pairing for Leona that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Sion is a very typical ally for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 52.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Leona and Sion that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Sion has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Sion allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see 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.
Although, by grouping Leona and Sion together, you will not be granting your other allies very much AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Sion ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona to pair well with Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Leona and Sion synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona included at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Sion than with most other typical builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 52.6% when playing alongside Sion with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
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