Sion vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Sion
based on 6,231 Sion vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sion vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Sion vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Sion
Tips for Playing as Sion against Brand
Roar of the Slayer is a great setup ability to land a very powerful Decimating Smash.
The Soul Furnace buff displays how much shield strength is remaining, use this information to time its explosion perfectly.
You only have very slight turning ability during Unstoppable Onslaught, so make sure to use it in straight paths.
Advice to Win Against Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Sion vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Sion in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some influential Sion against Brand counter stats that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Brand..
Sion often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Brand. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sion and Brand
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Who is Better, Sion or Brand?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sion usually loses when taking on Brand, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Sion makes a bad counter for Brand.
While Sion does have a lower winrate compared to Brand, when facing one another, Sion also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Sion into Brand.
Moreover, Sion has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sion vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Sion is a trash counter for Brand. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sion against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sion in order to counter Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion usually gets more CS relative to Brand. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sion versus Brand build consist of Unending Despair, Titanic Hydra, and Hollow Radiance. When Sion combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Brand than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 47.6% when playing against Brand with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Brand as Sion, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Minion Dematerializer, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Sion vs Brand fights, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Brand as Sion are displayed for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.