Skarner vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Skarner
based on 356 Skarner vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Sion
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Advice to Win Against Sion
Use the time after Sion has died to reposition and prepare for his return.
Even if Sion still hits a Decimating Smash, making him release the charge earlier reduces its impact.
Skarner vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several valuable Skarner against Sion counter stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sion’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sion..
Skarner typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Sion. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Sion
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Who is Better, Skarner or Sion?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually wins when playing against Sion, with a 54.2% win rate. Therefore, Skarner makes a great counter for Sion.
While Skarner does have a much higher winrate compared to Sion, when on opposite teams, Skarner also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Skarner into Sion.
Furthermore, Skarner has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Sion matchups, Skarner is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Skarner is a great counter for Sion. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Skarner against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Skarner to counter Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner typically gets a lot less CS relative to Sion. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Skarner versus Sion build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Sion than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 54.2% battling Sion with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Sion as Skarner, Skarner players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Skarner vs Sion counters, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.2% winrate overall.
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