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Sion Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 35,415 gamesUpdated

51.8%win rate1.6%pick0.8%ban

Who counters Sion

Every Top matchup for Sion, ranked →

How to build Sion

Plated Steelcaps→Heartsteel→Unending Despair→Thornmail

Plated Steelcaps → Heartsteel → Unending Despair → Thornmail

56.8% win rate 7% of games 1,677 games
RunesResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishConditioningOvergrowthInspirationApproach VelocityCash Back34% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport86%
Skills
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Decimating Smash
14578
Soul Furnace
29101213
Roar of the Slayer
314151718
Unstoppable Onslaught
61116
StartDoran's ShieldHealth PotionDoran's Shield, Health Potion
Full Sion build →
51.8%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.7% over 65,971 gamesPatch 26.21: 51.8% over 35,415 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.5%at Emerald+
1.6%pick rate
0.8%ban rate
▲ Upwas Tier 3 last patch
51.0%under 22 min
50.4%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Sion champion portraitT SionvsYasuo champion portraitT Yasuo
1 / 4 / 14

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Frozen Heart→Zeke's Convergence

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

WQEQQRQWQWRWWEER
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Sion champion portraitT SionvsJax champion portraitT Jax
4 / 2 / 3

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Hollow Radiance→Unending Despair→Spirit Visage

Spells & runes

GhostIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQWRWWEERE
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Sion champion portraitT SionvsPantheon champion portraitT Pantheon
5 / 15 / 7

Build

Heartsteel→Unending Despair→Titanic Hydra→Randuin's Omen

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

WQEQQRQWQWRWWEEREE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 53.1% win rate · 34% of games · 10,978 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishConditioningOvergrowth
InspirationApproach VelocityCash Back
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 51.1% win rate · 17% of games · 5,395 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishConditioningOvergrowth
PrecisionLegend: HasteTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport86%51.7%31,150 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite7%51.5%2,447 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps53%Mercury's Treads23%Boots of Swiftness20%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 51.9% win rate

Sion build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Titanic Hydra1st
  2. Hollow Radiance2nd
  3. Unending Despair3rd
2% of games that reach a third item take this path60.3% win rate408 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Sion →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 35,789 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
51% · 52.0% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
23% · 53.7% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
20% · 51.8% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 39.1% win rate
No bootsNo boots
2% · 49.2% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
1% · 48.9% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Heartsteel+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 35.2% win rate · 788 games
  2. Heartsteel›Unending Despair+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 49.1% win rate · 623 games
  3. Titanic Hydra›Heartsteel+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 44.3% win rate · 345 games
  4. Sunfire Aegis+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 38.2% win rate · 304 games
  5. Heartsteel›Sunfire Aegis+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 48.0% win rate · 300 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Sion against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Sion's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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