Sion with Bard
How to Synergize Sion and Bard
based on 2,743 Sion with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sion Bard Synergy Summary
Best Sion vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Bard
Tips for Playing as Sion with Bard
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.
Advice to Understand How Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Sion Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Sion in LoL
The Sion Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sion sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Sion perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sion is an ally to Bard, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Bard provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Bard on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Sion during teamfights.
Synergies between Sion and Bard
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Is Sion better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top ally for Sion that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Bard is a decent companion for Sion. By being on the same team as Sion, he increases their win rate by 2.7% to 52.9%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Sion and Bard that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Sion. That means Sion players need to be very careful when lining up Bard allies to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Sion players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Sion and Bard together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sion in order to work well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Sion and Bard synergy build include Heartsteel, Titanic Hydra, and Hollow Radiance. When Sion used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Sion had an average winrate of 52.9% when playing alongside Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Sion players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.9% win rate overall.
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