Sion with Riven
How to Synergize Sion and Riven
based on 1,033 Sion with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sion Riven Synergy Summary
Best Sion vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Riven
Tips for Playing as Sion with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Sion Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Sion in LoL
The Sion Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Sion perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sion plays on the same team as Riven, he sees a measurable drop in his complete damage output. This may signal that Riven doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played together with Riven 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 Riven.
Moreover, when Sion plays with Riven on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Sion during team fights.
Synergies between Sion and Riven
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Is Sion better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top champion pairing for Sion that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Riven is a very typical teammate for Sion. By locking into the same team as Sion, she decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Sion and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Sion. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Riven teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Sion and Riven together, you will not be giving your team a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Sion and Riven synergy build include Wit's End, Hullbreaker, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Riven than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sion boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing 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 we have analyed for Sion and Riven pairings, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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