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.
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
The stats shown on this page feature several valuable Sion vs. Gragas counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Gragas..
Sion normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Gragas. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sion usually wins when taking on Gragas, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Sion makes a good counter to Gragas.
While Sion does have a higher win rate compared to Gragas, when they face off with one another, Sion also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Sion into Gragas.
Moreover, Sion has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sion vs Gragas matchups, Sion is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Sion is a decent counter for Gragas. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Sion against Gragas.
To learn all of the intricacies of Sion to counter Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion often accumulates more CS compared to Gragas. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Sion versus Gragas build include Heartsteel, Titanic Hydra, and Hollow Radiance. When Sion included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Gragas than with many other common builds. In fact, Sion boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when countering Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Gragas as Sion, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Minion Dematerializer, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Sion vs Gragas counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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