Sion with Varus
How to Synergize Sion and Varus
based on 4,002 Sion with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sion Varus Synergy Summary
Best Sion vs Varus Counter Build
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Core Sion Items
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Guide to Synergizing Sion and Varus
Tips for Playing as Sion with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Sion Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Sion in LoL
The Sion Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Varus helps Sion perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sion is an ally to Varus, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Varus provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sion is played alongside Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Varus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Varus.
Additionally, when Sion plays with Varus on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Varus does a poor job of covering Sion during team fights.
Synergies between Sion and Varus
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Is Sion better when played alongside Varus?
There is no perfect ally for Sion that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Varus is a relatively poor ally for Sion. By locking into the same team as Sion, he lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 48.2%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Sion and Varus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Sion. That means Sion players don't need to be very careful when lining up Varus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Sion and Varus together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Varus ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sion in order to synergize with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Sion and Varus synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Varus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sion boasted an average win rate of 48.2% helping carry Varus with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should use 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 runes players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Varus with Sion are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.