Top · 161 games · NA

Sion

Top · 73% of games Mid · 15%

Strongest when games end at 20–25 minutes (52%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+34 gold).

Win rate: 49.1%; ±7.7 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #42 of 77
Pick rate: 2.6%; ban 0.4%
Games: 161; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Sion top wins 49.1% of 161 ranked games in NA, rank 42 of 77 top champions (tier B). Most players finish Heartsteel first, at about 11:06.

The build at a glance

What most Sion players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Heartsteel 11:25 · 22% · 34 games

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 13:06 · 49% of games

Item 2

Unending Despair 20:06 · 48% · 14 games

Item 3 · late game

Spirit Visage 24:42 · 16 of 88 games

Item 4 · late game

Thornmail 30:18 · 7 of 30 games

Runes

Grasp of the Undying · Resolve + Inspiration 13% of games · 57% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Shield + Health Potion 54% of games · 47% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 86% of games · 52% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Decimating Smash first 89% of games · 49% wins Skill orders →

When Sion wins

Wins early, fades from 25 minutes

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′55% wins26% of games · 42

Lasts 25′ or more47% wins71% of games · 115

Lanes

Good into Ambessa

Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Sion games

First Baron: 76% against 30%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 30% 76% +46

First dragon 34% 67% +33

First tower 32% 64% +32

Rift Herald 43% 56% +13

First blood 44% 55% +12

First Voidgrubs 44% 54% +9

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Sion plays

Fewer multikills, fewer solo kills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average top laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Fewer multikills a game0.19 against 0.42 · −55%

Fewer solo kills a game1.2 against 2.1 · −43%

More assists a game6.7 against 5.3 · +26%

More control wards a game0.55 against 0.45 · +22%

Less time spent dead5.4s against 6.4s a minute · −17%

About average: kill participation, minions, gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~11:48

Item 2done ~20:00

Item 3done ~25:30

Item 4done ~28:54

Most common full builds

Heartsteel › Plated Steelcaps › Titanic Hydra › Unending Despair 60.0%5 games

Hollow Radiance › Plated Steelcaps › Unending Despair › Titanic Hydra 50.0%4 games

Dead Man's Plate › Plated Steelcaps › Unending Despair › Spirit Visage 100.0%3 games

Plated Steelcaps › Sunfire Aegis › Unending Despair › Spirit Visage 100.0%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Unending Despair 67%21

Randuin's Omen 63%8

Kaenic Rookern 60%5

Titanic Hydra 56%9

Spirit Visage 50%12

Jak'Sho, The Protean 33%9

Thornmail 29%7

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Shield + Health Potion47.1%87

Doran's Helm + Health Potion50.8%59

Long Sword + Refillable Potion55.6%9

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~13:0651.9%79

Boots of Swiftness ~12:4836.8%38

Mercury's Treads ~14:2456.8%37

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport51.8%139

Flash + Ignite11.1%9

Ghost + Teleport50.0%6

Skills

Max

E49.3%144

Max

W38.5%13

Start

E38.4%86

Start

E60.3%58

Hard lanes

No clearly hard lane yet

Easy lanes

Good into Ambessa

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 1 of 1, wins 1 of them

Expected: what Sion's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (22)

Jayce 29% · 7

Mordekaiser 17% · 6

Teemo 80% · 5

Fiora 20% · 5

Gwen 60% · 5

Gangplank 60% · 5

Singed 60% · 5

Yone 40% · 5

Urgot 60% · 5

Shen 60% · 5

Garen 80% · 5

Aatrox 60% · 5

Olaf 75% · 4

Tryndamere 25% · 4

Kennen 75% · 4

Ornn 25% · 4

Zaahen 75% · 4

Camille 0% · 4

Malphite 25% · 4

Gnar 0% · 3

Kayn 67% · 3

Sett 33% · 3

Sion vs Ambessa · 10 games · Early read

Sion does better than expected here

70%winsexpected 48%

+318gold at 15′average +34

+7.4minions at 10′ahead or behind

0%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.70 a game

Gold lead against Ambessa Sion's average lead

Against Ambessa, Sion is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 50% of games and wins 80% of those. When behind, Sion wins 60%.

Ahead at 15′80% wins5 games

Behind at 15′60% wins5 games

Full Sion vs Ambessa page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy mid Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Jhin88% · exp. 53% +3516 games

Enemy support Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies less than most top laners

Before 14 minutes Sion dies 2.0 times a game (average 2.4). 36% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 39% for the average top laner. 57% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.0deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.4)

36%involve the enemy junglerless than average (39%)

43%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (48%)

85%with no teammate nearabout average (83%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Sion dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

Ganks: 43% in your half of top lane. Collapses: 52% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 54% in your half of top lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average top laner

What kills Sion

Kind of death

Sion Average

Gank 36% (avg 39%)Collapse 7% (avg 9%)1-v-1 57% (avg 52%)

Who gets the kill

Sion Average

Bot laner 2% (avg 1%)Jungler 22% (avg 24%)Support 1% (avg 2%)Mid laner 5% (avg 7%)Top laner 67% (avg 64%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 4:00, then every minute

Sion Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 4:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Sion; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Sion wins fights

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 0.7 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.5 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.7 kills per death.

Your half of top lane 0.5 K/D 73 / 158

Their half of top lane 0.7 K/D 88 / 128

The top-side river 1.2 K/D 16 / 13

Your jungle 1.3 K/D 9 / 7

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Sion wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsWorth knowingNear 15% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 64% when Sion is there and 71% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 17:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 50%; for Sion it is 48% against 50%.

Sion

What most Sion players run

Wins early, fades from 25 minutes

Good into Ambessa

First Baron: 76% against 30%

Fewer multikills, fewer solo kills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

Good into Ambessa

Ahead at 15 against 1 of 1, wins 1 of them

Sion does better than expected here

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Sion's games

Dies less than most top laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

What kills Sion

Ganks come at 4:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of bot lane

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid