Pantheon vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Pantheon
based on 4,815 Pantheon vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pantheon vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Pantheon vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Pantheon
Tips for Playing as Pantheon against Sion
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
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.
Pantheon vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Pantheon in LoL
The stats shown here feature several influential Pantheon versus Sion matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sion’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sion. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Pantheon typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Sion. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pantheon and Sion
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Who is Better, Pantheon or Sion?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Pantheon usually loses when trying to fight Sion, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Pantheon makes a poor counter for Sion.
While Pantheon does have a lower winrate than Sion, when facing one another, Pantheon also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Pantheon into Sion.
Furthermore, Pantheon also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Pantheon is a bad counter to Sion. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Pantheon against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Pantheon in order 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon often gets less CS as Sion. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Pantheon versus Sion build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Pantheon combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Sion than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Pantheon had an average win rate of 47.7% battling Sion with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Sion as Pantheon, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Pantheon vs Sion counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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