Sion vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Sion
based on 6,338 Sion vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sion vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Sion vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Sion
Tips for Playing as Sion against Akali
Roar of the Slayer is a great setup ability to land a very powerful Decimating Smash.
The Soul Furnace buff displays how much shield strength is remaining, use this information to time its explosion perfectly.
You only have very slight turning ability during Unstoppable Onslaught, so make sure to use it in straight paths.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Sion vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Sion in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Sion against Akali matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Akali..
Sion normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Akali. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sion and Akali
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Who is Better, Sion or Akali?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sion usually wins when playing against Akali, with a 51.8% win rate. As a result, Sion makes a good counter to Akali.
While Sion does have a higher winrate compared to Akali, when they face off with one another, Sion also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Sion into Akali.
Additionally, Sion also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sion vs Akali matchups, Sion is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Sion is a decent counter for Akali. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Sion against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sion to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Akali. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Sion versus Akali build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Akali than with many other common item sets. In fact, Sion boasted an average winrate of 51.8% battling Akali with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Akali as Sion, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Minion Dematerializer, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Sion vs Akali counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
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