Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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.
The stats shown here underscore some significant Dr. Mundo against Sion counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Dr. Mundo may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sion..
Dr. Mundo normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Sion. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Dr. Mundo usually wins when trying to fight Sion, with a 52.9% win rate. Therefore, Dr. Mundo makes a good counter for Sion.
While Dr. Mundo does have a higher win rate than Sion, when on opposite teams, Dr. Mundo also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Dr. Mundo into Sion.
Moreover, Dr. Mundo 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Dr. Mundo vs Sion matchups, Dr. Mundo is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Dr. Mundo is a good counter for Sion. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Dr. Mundo against Sion.
If you would like to truly master Dr. Mundo in order to counter Sion during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Dr. Mundo often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Sion. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Dr. Mundo versus Sion build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Dr. Mundo used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Sion than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Dr. Mundo boasted an average win rate of 52.9% when playing against Sion with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Sion as Dr. Mundo, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Dr. Mundo vs Sion counter picks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
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