Naafiri vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Naafiri
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Naafiri vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Sion
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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.
Naafiri vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Naafiri in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Naafiri vs. Sion matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sion’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Sion. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Naafiri typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their foe does. Typically, they takes less damage than Sion. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Naafiri and Sion
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Sion?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually loses when taking on Sion, with a 46.9% win rate. As a result, Naafiri makes a bad counter for Sion.
While Naafiri does have a lower winrate compared to Sion, when facing one another, Naafiri also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Naafiri into Sion.
Moreover, Naafiri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sion. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Naafiri is a bad counter to Sion. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Naafiri against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Sion. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Naafiri versus Sion build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Naafiri used at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better when fighting Sion than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 46.9% battling Sion with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Sion as Naafiri, Naafiri players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Naafiri vs Sion counters, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
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