Akshan vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Akshan
based on 1,870 Akshan vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Sion
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Sion
Use the time after Sion has died to reposition and prepare for his return.
Even if Sion still hits a Decimating Smash, making him release the charge earlier reduces its impact.
Akshan vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Akshan in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some vital Akshan versus Sion counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Sion. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Akshan often has a much larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. On average, they receives less damage than Sion. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Sion
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Who is Better, Akshan or Sion?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when playing against Sion, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a bad counter for Sion.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate compared to Sion, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Akshan into Sion.
Moreover, Akshan has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Akshan is a trash counter to Sion. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to counter Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Sion. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Akshan versus Sion build include Rapid Firecannon, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better versus Sion than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 47.6% battling Sion with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Sion as Akshan, Akshan players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Akshan vs Sion LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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