Alistar vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Alistar
based on 1,739 Alistar vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Sion
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some important Alistar vs. Sion matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sion’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sion. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Sion. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Sion
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Who is Better, Alistar or Sion?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when playing against Sion, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes an ok counter for Sion.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate than Sion, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Sionas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter for Sion. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Sion during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar on average accumulates a lot less CS compared to Sion. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Sion build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Sion than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 49.6% battling Sion with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Sion as Alistar, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Alistar vs Sion fights, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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