Diana vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Diana
based on 4,260 Diana vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Sion
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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.
Diana vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Diana in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some significant Diana vs. Sion matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Sion. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Diana normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Sion. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Diana and Sion
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Who is Better, Diana or Sion?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Diana usually loses when taking on Sion, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Diana makes a bad counter to Sion.
While Diana does have a lower winrate compared to Sion, when they face off with one another, Diana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Diana into Sion.
Additionally, Diana has only a small amount 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Diana vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Diana is a trash counter to Sion. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Diana against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Diana in order to counter Sion during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana on average racks up less CS as Sion. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Diana versus Sion build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Diana used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Sion than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when playing against Sion with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Sion as Diana, Diana players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Diana vs Sion counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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