Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use 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 stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Rumble against Sion counter stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. Rumble’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sion’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rumble may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sion. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Rumble normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Sion. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rumble usually fairs equally well when playing against Sion, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Rumble makes an ok counter to Sion.
While Rumble does have a lower winrate than Sion, when facing one another, Rumble also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rumble into Sionas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Rumble also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sion. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rumble vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Rumble is a somewhat poor counter for Sion. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Rumble against Sion.
To truly master Rumble to counter Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rumble typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Sion. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Rumble versus Sion build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Sion than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rumble boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when countering Sion with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Sion as Rumble, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rumble vs Sion counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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