Lee Sin vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Lee Sin
based on 3,130 Lee Sin vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Sion
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Lee Sin in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Lee Sin vs. Sion counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sion’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sion. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Lee Sin typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Sion. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lee Sin and Sion
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Sion?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when taking on Sion, with a 45.9% win rate. Therefore, Lee Sin makes a poor counter for Sion.
While Lee Sin does have a much lower win rate compared to Sion, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lee Sin into Sion.
Moreover, Lee Sin also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sion. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lee Sin is a garbage counter for Sion. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Lee Sin against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lee Sin to counter Sion during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Sion. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Lee Sin versus Sion build include Guardian Angel, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Sion than with many other typical builds. In fact, Lee Sin had an average win rate of 45.9% when countering Sion with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Sion as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Lee Sin vs Sion counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
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