Nocturne vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Nocturne
based on 5,666 Nocturne vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Sion
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
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.
Nocturne vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several strategic Nocturne against Sion counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between these two champions. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sion’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sion. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Nocturne normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Sion. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nocturne and Sion
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Sion?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when facing off against Sion, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes a good counter for Sion.
While Nocturne does have a higher winrate than Sion, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nocturne into Sion.
Furthermore, Nocturne has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Sion matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nocturne is a decent counter for Sion. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Sion.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nocturne
Additional Information for Nocturne Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to counter Sion during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often racks up a lot less CS as Sion. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Nocturne versus Sion build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Sion than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 51.1% when playing against Sion with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Sion as Nocturne, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nocturne vs Sion clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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