Illaoi vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Illaoi
based on 1,905 Illaoi vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Sion
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some valuable Illaoi vs. Sion counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sion’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Sion..
Illaoi typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Sion. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Sion
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Sion?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when playing against Sion, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes an ok counter to Sion.
While Illaoi does have a lower winrate compared to Sion, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Sion.
Furthermore, Illaoi also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter to Sion. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to counter Sion during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi on average gets a similar amount of CS as Sion. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Illaoi versus Sion build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Sion than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 49.8% battling Sion with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Sion as Illaoi, Illaoi players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Sion counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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