Sion with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Sion and Caitlyn
based on 10,010 Sion with Caitlyn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sion Caitlyn Synergy Summary
Best Sion vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Sion with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Sion Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Sion in LoL
The Sion Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Caitlyn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Caitlyn helps Sion perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sion is an ally to Caitlyn, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Caitlyn helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played together with Caitlyn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Caitlyn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Caitlyn on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Caitlyn does a poor job of protecting Sion in teamfights.
Synergies between Sion and Caitlyn
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Is Sion better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no perfect companion for Sion that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Caitlyn is a very typical ally for Sion. By playing on the same side as Sion, she lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 49.6%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Sion and Caitlyn that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Sion. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Caitlyn teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Sion players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Sion and Caitlyn together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Caitlyn ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sion to synergize with Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Sion and Caitlyn synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Hullbreaker. When Sion bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Caitlyn than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sion had an average winrate of 49.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Caitlyn with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Sion and Caitlyn pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Caitlyn with Sion are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.