Sion with Nocturne
How to Synergize Sion and Nocturne
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Sion Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Sion with Nocturne
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 Nocturne Will Play
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Sion Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Sion in LoL
The Sion Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, 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 Nocturne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nocturne helps Sion perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sion is paired with Nocturne, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Nocturne helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played with Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nocturne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Moreover, when Sion plays with Nocturne on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Nocturne does a poor job of protecting Sion during team fights.
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Is Sion better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no top ally for Sion that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Nocturne is a fantastic teammate for Sion. By playing on the same team as Sion, he improves their win rate by 3.0% to 53.2%. This signals that there is a very real synergy between Sion and Nocturne that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Sion. That means Sion players don't need to be very careful when finding Nocturne comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Sion and Nocturne together, you probably will not be granting your side enough AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 to work well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Sion and Nocturne synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Sion included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Nocturne than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 53.2% helping carry Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Sion and Nocturne pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.2% win rate overall.
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