Varus vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Varus
based on 4,259 Varus vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Sion
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Varus in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several strategic Varus against Sion matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sion. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Varus usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Sion. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Varus and Sion
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Who is Better, Varus or Sion?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Varus usually fairs equally well when taking on Sion, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Varus makes an ok counter for Sion.
While Varus does have a lower winrate compared to Sion, when facing one another, Varus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Varus into Sion.
Moreover, Varus also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sion. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Varus vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Varus is a somewhat poor counter for Sion. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Sion.
Other Champion Matchups Against Varus
Additional Information for Varus Players
How We Calculated Our Varus vs Sion Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus in order to counter Sion during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Sion. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Varus versus Sion build include Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Edge of Night. When Varus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Sion than with most other common item sets. In fact, Varus had an average winrate of 49.4% battling Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Sion as Varus, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Varus vs Sion clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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