Thresh vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Thresh
based on 4,058 Thresh vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Sion Counter Build
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Core Thresh Items
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Guide to Countering Sion as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Sion
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical Thresh against Sion counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sion’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Sion. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Sion. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Sion
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Thresh or Sion?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when trying to fight Sion, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a bad counter to Sion.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate than Sion, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Thresh into Sionas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sion. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a garbage counter to Sion. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Sion during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh on average gets a lot less CS as Sion. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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 require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Thresh versus Sion build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Sion than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 47.8% battling Sion with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Sion as Thresh, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Thresh vs Sion counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Sion as Thresh are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.