Sion with Pyke
How to Synergize Sion and Pyke
based on 3,194 Sion with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sion Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Sion with Pyke
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 Pyke Will Play
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
Sion Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Sion in LoL
The Sion Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, 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 Pyke. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Pyke helps Sion perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion is paired with Pyke, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Pyke helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Moreover, when Sion plays with Pyke on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Pyke does a poor job of protecting Sion in team fights.
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Is Sion better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no ideal synergy for Sion that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Pyke is a very typical companion for Sion. By locking into the same side as Sion, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 49.4%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Sion and Pyke that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Sion. That means you need to be careful when arranging Pyke comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Sion and Pyke together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 in order to work well with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Sion and Pyke synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Pyke than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sion boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating 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 combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Pyke with Sion are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.