Sion vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Sion
based on 1,739 Sion vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sion vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Sion vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Sion
Tips for Playing as Sion against Alistar
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 Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Sion vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Sion in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several important Sion vs. Alistar matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Alistar..
Sion often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Alistar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sion and Alistar
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Who is Better, Sion or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sion usually fairs equally well when taking on Alistar, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Sion makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Sion does have a higher win rate than Alistar, when on opposite teams, Sion also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Sion into Alistar.
Additionally, Sion also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sion vs Alistar matchups, Sion is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Sion is a decent counter to Alistar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Sion against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sion in order to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion most often accumulates much more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Sion versus Alistar build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Sion combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Alistar than with most other common builds. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 50.4% when playing against Alistar with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Alistar as Sion, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Sion vs Alistar LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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