Sion vs Karthus Counter Build
How to Beat Karthus as Sion
Summary
We at MOBA Champion analyze millions of recently ranked League of Legends games each week. In our data, Sion faced off against Karthus 2,400 times. With so many games with Sion versus Karthus gives us a lot of confidence in our ability to provide informative statistics and a solid build to defeat your rival.
This particular champ pairing is fairly rare. Sion is forced to battle against Karthus in only 0.8% of his games. Sion has done a great job of beating Karthus. Typically, Sion wins a whopping 57.0% of games the champs face off with one another in. In Sion against Karthus rounds, Sion’s team is 1.0% more expected to get first blood, indicating that he most likely will get first blood against Karthus.
Matchups Analyzed
Win Rate
Team First Blood
Best Sion Items to Counter Karthus
The most important items to focus on in your Sion versus Karthus build include Sterak's Gage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Sion used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Karthus than with most other common builds.
Best Sion Runes to Counter Karthus
To have the best chance of crushing Karthus as Sion, Sion players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes. Out of all the runes players picked for Sion vs Karthus battles, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. We have also shown the best Karthus runes to counterpick against Sion in order to help you infer how he will likely be setup to try to beat you.
Best Sion Runes
Grasp of the Undying
Demolish
Bone Plating
Overgrowth
Biscuit Delivery
Time Warp TonicBest Karthus Runes
Dark Harvest
Taste of Blood
Eyeball Collection
Ravenous Hunter
Presence of Mind
Last StandStats
The following tables feature some valuable Sion against Karthus matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of 2.2 is nearly equal to Karthus’s KDA ratio of 2.2, highlighting that Sion may be just as central to his team's team fighting potential than Karthus.
Battle Stats
Kills
Deaths
Assists
Largest Killing Spree
Damage Dealt
Damage Taken
Objective Stats
Towers Destroyed
Inhibitors Destroyed
Dragons Killed
Barons Killed
Gold Earned
Minions Killed
Sion usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, Sion receives more damage than Karthus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
In Sion vs Karthus matchups, Sion usually racks up many more minion kills than Karthus. Champions who on average do not amass many minion kills usually do not have to have much CS to be useful. They are able to scale adequately off their skills and stats alone. However, champions with a lot of CS, such as ADCs, typically have to have a lot of gold to be useful. In either case, work to do better than the averages shown here to do well.
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How We Analyze Our Matchups
For this counter guide, we analyzed 2400 Sion vs Karthus matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Karthus as Sion comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.