Nunu & Willump vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Nunu & Willump
based on 2,407 Nunu & Willump vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Sion
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some critical Nunu & Willump vs. Sion matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sion. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Sion. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Sion
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Sion?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Sion, with a 45.1% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter for Sion.
While Nunu & Willump does have a much lower win rate compared to Sion, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nunu & Willump into Sion.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump has some 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a bad counter for Sion. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to counter Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump on average racks up a lot less CS as Sion. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Sion build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Sion than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 45.1% when countering Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Sion as Nunu & Willump, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Nunu & Willump vs Sion battles, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.1% winrate overall.
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