Sion vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Sion
based on 2,473 Sion vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sion vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Sion vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Sion
Tips for Playing as Sion against Janna
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 Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Sion vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Sion in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several influential Sion against Janna counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Janna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Janna. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in deaths.
Sion typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Janna. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sion and Janna
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Who is Better, Sion or Janna?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sion usually loses when facing off against Janna, with a 46.5% win rate. Thus, Sion makes a bad counter to Janna.
While Sion does have a lower winrate than Janna, when facing one another, Sion also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Sion into Janna.
Furthermore, Sion has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sion vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Sion is a trash counter for Janna. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Sion against Janna.
Other Champion Matchups Against Sion
Additional Information for Sion Players
How We Calculated Our Sion vs Janna Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sion to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion typically gets much more CS compared to Janna. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sion versus Janna build consist of Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Sion bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Janna than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 46.5% battling Janna with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Janna 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 rune sets that we analyzed for Sion vs Janna face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Janna as Sion are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.