Sion vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Sion
based on 3,940 Sion vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sion vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Sion vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Sion
Tips for Playing as Sion against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Sion vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Sion in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several significant Sion versus Zed matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zed..
Sion normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Zed. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sion and Zed
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Who is Better, Sion or Zed?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sion usually wins when facing off against Zed, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Sion makes a good counter to Zed.
While Sion does have a higher winrate than Zed, when they face off with one another, Sion also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sion into Zed.
Additionally, Sion has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting 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 Zed matchups, Sion is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Sion is a decent counter to Zed. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sion against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sion in order to counter Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind 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 usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Zed. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Sion versus Zed build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Sion boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when playing against Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Zed 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 combinations that we analyzed for Sion vs Zed battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
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