The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
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.
The stat comparisons shown here show some critical Blitzcrank against Sion counter stats that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Blitzcrank may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sion. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Blitzcrank usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Sion. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Blitzcrank usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Sion, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Blitzcrank makes an ok counter to Sion.
While Blitzcrank does have a higher win rate compared to Sion, when they face off with one another, Blitzcrank also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Blitzcrank into Sion.
Furthermore, Blitzcrank has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Blitzcrank vs Sion matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Blitzcrank is a decent counter to Sion. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Blitzcrank against Sion.
If you would like to truly master Blitzcrank in order to counter Sion during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Blitzcrank usually racks up a lot less CS as Sion. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Blitzcrank versus Sion build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Frozen Heart, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Blitzcrank bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Sion than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Sion with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Sion as Blitzcrank, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Blitzcrank vs Sion matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
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