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.
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several valuable Sion against Hecarim matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Hecarim..
Sion often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Hecarim. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sion usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Hecarim, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Sion makes an ok counter to Hecarim.
While Sion does have a higher winrate compared to Hecarim, when on opposite teams, Sion also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Sion into Hecarim.
Furthermore, Sion has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hecarim. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sion vs Hecarim matchups, Sion is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Sion is a decent counter to Hecarim. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sion against Hecarim.
To learn all of the intricacies of Sion to counter Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion typically picks up much more CS compared to Hecarim. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Sion versus Hecarim build consist of Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Sion used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Hecarim than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sion boasted an average winrate of 50.1% battling Hecarim with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Hecarim as Sion, Sion players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Sion vs Hecarim counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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