Samira vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Samira
based on 4,793 Samira vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Samira vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Samira vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Samira
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.
Samira vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Samira in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several strategic Samira versus Sion counter stats that can help us grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sion’s ratio of NaN, showing that Samira 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.
Samira usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Sion. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Samira and Sion
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Who is Better, Samira or Sion?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when playing against Sion, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Samira makes a poor counter for Sion.
While Samira does have a lower win rate than Sion, when they face off with one another, Samira also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Samira into Sion.
Moreover, Samira also has almost no amount 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 isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Samira vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Samira is a terribly counter to Sion. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Samira against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Samira in order to counter Sion during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira typically gets a similar amount of CS as Sion. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Samira versus Sion build include Guardian Angel, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Samira incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Sion than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Samira had an average win rate of 47.5% when playing against Sion with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Sion as Samira, Samira players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Samira vs Sion fights, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Sion as Samira are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.