Skarner with Sion
How to Synergize Skarner and Sion
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Skarner Sion Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Sion
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Sion
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Advice to Understand How Sion Will Play
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.
Skarner Sion Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sion as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Sion synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sion, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Skarner sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sion. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sion helps Skarner perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Sion, he sees a noticable increase in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Sion supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Sion on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sion.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Sion on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Sion does a poor job of covering Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Sion
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Sion?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Skarner that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Sion is a top-tier ally for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he improves their win rate by 3.2% to 51.5%. This shows that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Skarner and Sion that results in them performing better together than alone.
Sion has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be cautious when arranging Sion teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, Skarner players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Skarner and Sion together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Sion ally, 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 anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner in order to synergize with Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Skarner and Sion synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Sion than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 51.5% helping carry Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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