Janna vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Janna
based on 2,473 Janna vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Sion
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Janna in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some important Janna against Sion counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Sion. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Sion. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Sion
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Who is Better, Janna or Sion?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when playing against Sion, with a 53.5% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a great counter for Sion.
While Janna does have a higher win rate than Sion, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Sionas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Sion matchups, Janna is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Janna is a great counter to Sion. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to counter Sion during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Sion. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Janna versus Sion build consist of Redemption, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Janna used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Sion than with many other common item sets. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 53.5% when countering Sion with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Sion as Janna, Janna players should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Janna vs Sion counter picks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.5% winrate overall.
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