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 stat comparisons provided here clarify several influential Lillia vs. Sion counter stats that may help you realize the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Lillia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sion’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lillia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Sion. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Lillia often has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Sion. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lillia usually wins when playing against Sion, with a 57.4% win rate. Thus, Lillia makes a fantastic counter to Sion.
While Lillia does have a much higher winrate than Sion, when facing one another, Lillia also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Lillia into Sionas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Lillia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Lillia vs Sion matchups, Lillia is the better champ 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.
Lillia is a great counter for Sion. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lillia against Sion.
If you would like to truly master Lillia in order to counter Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lillia typically picks up a lot less CS relative to Sion. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Lillia versus Sion build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Lillia bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Sion than with many other common item sets. In fact, Lillia boasted an average winrate of 57.4% when countering Sion with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Sion as Lillia, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Lillia vs Sion counters, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 57.4% win rate overall.
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