Alistar vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Alistar
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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 Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
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 stats shown on this page feature some significant Alistar vs. Sion matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sion’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Sion. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Sion. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Sion
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Who is Better, Alistar or Sion?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually loses when taking on Sion, with a 46.0% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a poor counter for Sion.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Sion, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Alistar into Sionas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sion. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Alistar is a bad counter to Sion. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Sion during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often picks up a lot less CS relative to Sion. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Alistar versus Sion build consist of Locket of the Iron Solari, Thornmail, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Sion than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 46.0% battling Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Sion as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Alistar vs Sion matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.0% win rate overall.
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