Sion with Karma
How to Synergize Sion and Karma
based on 2,567 Sion with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sion Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Karma
Tips for Playing as Sion with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Sion Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Sion in LoL
The Sion Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 Karma. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karma helps Sion perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion is an ally to Karma, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Karma supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played alongside Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Karma.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Karma on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Karma does a poor job of covering Sion in teamfights.
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Is Sion better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best companion for Sion that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Karma is a not very good teammate for Sion. By being on the same side as Sion, she decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Sion and Karma that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Sion. That means Sion players don't need to be careful when enlisting Karma teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Sion players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Sion and Karma together, you may not be giving your other allies much AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Karma ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sion in order to work well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Sion and Karma synergy build include Heartsteel, Titanic Hydra, and Hollow Radiance. When Sion incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Karma than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 48.7% helping carry Karma with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Minion Dematerializer, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Sion and Karma pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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