Sion with Briar
How to Synergize Sion and Briar
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Sion Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Briar
Tips for Playing as Sion with Briar
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.
Sion Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Sion in LoL
The Sion Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, 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 Briar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Briar helps Sion perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sion is paired with Briar, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Briar doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played alongside Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Briar.
Moreover, when Sion plays with Briar on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Briar does a decent job of protecting Sion during team fights.
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Is Sion better when played alongside Briar?
There is no ideal companion for Sion that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Briar is a decent ally for Sion. By locking into the same side as Sion, they raises their win rate by 2.0% to 52.2%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Sion and Briar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Sion. That means Sion players don't need to be very careful when arranging Briar allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Sion and Briar together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of magic damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Briar teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sion in order to pair well with Briar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Sion and Briar synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Sion combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Briar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sion boasted an average winrate of 52.2% helping carry Briar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.2% winrate overall.
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