Sion with Taric
How to Synergize Sion and Taric
based on 876 Sion with Taric pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sion Taric Synergy Summary
Best Sion vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Taric
Tips for Playing as Sion with Taric
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 Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Sion Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Sion in LoL
The Sion Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Taric helps Sion perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion plays on the same team as Taric, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Taric does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played alongside Taric 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 Taric.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Taric on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Taric does a decent job of covering Sion during team fights.
Synergies between Sion and Taric
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Is Sion better when played alongside Taric?
There is no one best ally for Sion that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Taric is a very typical companion for Sion. By playing on the same team as Sion, he improves their win rate by 0.3% to 50.5%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Sion and Taric that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Taric has a lower difficulty than Sion. That means Sion players don't need to be careful when arranging Taric teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Sion players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Sion and Taric together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Taric ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sion to work well with Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Sion and Taric synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Sion combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Taric than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Minion Dematerializer, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Sion and Taric pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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