Katarina vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Katarina
based on 3,661 Katarina vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Sion
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several valuable Katarina versus Sion counter stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sion’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Sion. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Sion. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Sion
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Who is Better, Katarina or Sion?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when taking on Sion, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter to Sion.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Sion, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Sionas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Sion. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Sion. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Katarina versus Sion build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Sion than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Sion with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Sion as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Katarina vs Sion counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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