Darius vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Darius
based on 3,708 Darius vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Sion
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Darius in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some influential Darius against Sion counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sion. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Darius usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Sion. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Darius and Sion
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Who is Better, Darius or Sion?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Darius usually fairs equally well when taking on Sion, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Darius makes an ok counter to Sion.
While Darius does have a lower win rate compared to Sion, when on opposite teams, Darius also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Darius into Sion.
Furthermore, Darius also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Darius vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Darius is a somewhat poor counter to Sion. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Darius against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Darius to counter Sion during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Sion. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Darius versus Sion build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Darius included at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Sion than with most other common item sets. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing against Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Sion as Darius, Darius players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Darius vs Sion counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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