Sion vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Sion
based on 3,917 Sion vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sion vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Sion vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Sion
Tips for Playing as Sion against Swain
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 Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
Sion vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Sion in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some influential Sion vs. Swain counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Swain..
Sion often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Swain. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sion and Swain
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Who is Better, Sion or Swain?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sion usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Sion makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Sion does have a lower winrate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Sion also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Sion into Swain.
Additionally, Sion also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sion vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Sion is a bad counter to Swain. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sion against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sion in order to counter Swain 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 listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion on average racks up more CS as Swain. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Sion versus Swain build include Heartsteel, Titanic Hydra, and Hollow Radiance. When Sion combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Swain than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Sion boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing against Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Swain as Sion, Sion players should equip 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 combinations players used for Sion vs Swain battles, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Swain as Sion are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.