Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
The Orianna 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, Orianna sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sion helps Orianna perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna is paired with Sion, she sees a little increase in her full damage output. This difference may indicate that Sion helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played alongside Sion on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Sion. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Sion.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Sion on the same team, she typically takes more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Sion does a poor job of protecting Orianna in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Orianna that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Sion is a very typical teammate for Orianna. By locking into the same team as Orianna, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 46.5%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Orianna and Sion that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Sion has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Sion teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Orianna and Sion together, you will not be granting your team enough attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Sion teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to work well with Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Orianna and Sion synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna used at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Sion than with many other typical builds. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 46.5% helping carry Sion with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Orianna and Sion pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.5% win rate overall.
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