You only have very slight turning ability during Unstoppable Onslaught, so make sure to use it in straight paths.
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.
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
The stats provided here highlight some valuable Sion vs. Tristana matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tristana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Tristana..
Sion often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Tristana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sion usually loses when facing off against Tristana, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Sion makes a bad counter for Tristana.
While Sion does have a lower winrate than Tristana, when on opposite teams, Sion also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sion into Tristana.
Moreover, Sion also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sion vs Tristana matchups, Tristana is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Sion is a somewhat poor counter to Tristana. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sion against Tristana.
To truly master Sion to counter Tristana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Tristana. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Sion versus Tristana build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Tristana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sion had an average winrate of 48.4% when countering Tristana with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Tristana as Sion, Sion players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Sion vs Tristana battles, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Tristana as Sion are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.