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Sion Build

Jungle Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 6,117 gamesUpdated

54.4%win rate0.3%pick0.8%ban

Who counters Sion

How to build Sion

Boots of Swiftness→Heartsteel→Overlord's Bloodmail→Unending Despair

Boots of Swiftness → Heartsteel → Overlord's Bloodmail → Unending Despair

60.7% win rate 12% of games 545 games
RunesResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishConditioningOvergrowthInspirationApproach VelocityCash Back17% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite76%
Skills
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Decimating Smash
13457
Soul Furnace
2891012
Roar of the Slayer
1314151718
Unstoppable Onslaught
61116
StartScorchclaw PupScorchclaw Pup
Full Sion build →
54.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 52.8% over 9,765 gamesPatch 26.21: 54.4% over 6,117 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
53.1%at Emerald+
0.3%pick rate
0.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
57.2%under 22 min
51.2%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 30–35m
MASTER+
Sion champion portraitJ SionvsBel'Veth champion portraitJ Bel'Veth
9 / 5 / 8

Build

Scorchclaw PupPlated Steelcaps|Heartsteel→Overlord's Bloodmail→Unending Despair

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QWQEQRQWQWRWWEERE
Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Sion champion portraitJ SionvsJarvan IV champion portraitJ Jarvan IV
7 / 1 / 9

Build

Scorchclaw PupMercury's Treads|Heartsteel→Overlord's Bloodmail

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QWQEQRQWQWRW
Loss 35–40m
MASTER+
Sion champion portraitJ SionvsKarthus champion portraitJ Karthus
6 / 9 / 15

Build

Scorchclaw PupMercury's Treads|Heartsteel→Overlord's Bloodmail→Unending Despair→Kaenic Rookern

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QWQEQRQWQWRWWEERE

Runes

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

Most popular 53.1% win rate · 17% of games · 847 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishConditioningOvergrowth
InspirationApproach VelocityCash Back
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 51.5% win rate · 13% of games · 648 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeManaflow BandAbsolute FocusGathering Storm
ResolveConditioningDemolish
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashSmiteFlash + Smite76%54.1%4,778 games
  • GhostSmiteGhost + Smite22%56.2%1,387 games

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

Boots
Boots of Swiftness52%Plated Steelcaps23%Mercury's Treads16%
Boots of Swiftness most often · 53.8% win rate
Jungle pet
Scorchclaw Pup90%
9 of 10 recent games started Scorchclaw Pup

Sion build

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

  1. Titanic Hydra1st
  2. Heartsteel2nd
  3. Overlord's Bloodmail3rd
3% of games that reach a third item take this path59.2% win rate142 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Sion →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 6,225 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
50% · 53.9% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
23% · 54.6% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
16% · 57.1% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 54.0% win rate
No bootsNo boots
4% · 48.1% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
1% · 55.4% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Overlord's Bloodmail›Heartsteel+Boots of Swiftness1% of games · 40.2% win rate · 92 games
  2. Heartsteel+Boots of Swiftness1% of games · 46.1% win rate · 89 games
  3. Heartsteel+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 42.1% win rate · 76 games
  4. Unending Despair›Heartsteel+Boots of Swiftness1% of games · 55.6% win rate · 54 games
  5. Youmuu's Ghostblade+Boots of Swiftness1% of games · 50.0% win rate · 54 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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