Sion vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Sion
based on 4,022 Sion vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sion vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Sion vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Sion
Tips for Playing as Sion against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Sion vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Sion in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some valuable Sion against Malphite counter stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Malphite..
Sion often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Malphite. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sion and Malphite
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Who is Better, Sion or Malphite?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sion usually wins when trying to fight Malphite, with a 54.3% win rate. Therefore, Sion makes a great counter to Malphite.
While Sion does have a much higher winrate compared to Malphite, when they face off with one another, Sion also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Sion into Malphite.
Additionally, Sion has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sion vs Malphite matchups, Sion is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Sion is a great counter to Malphite. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sion against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sion in order to counter Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion often racks up a similar amount of CS as Malphite. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Sion versus Malphite build include Unending Despair, Titanic Hydra, and Hollow Radiance. When Sion included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Malphite than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sion boasted an average winrate of 54.3% when playing against Malphite with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Malphite as Sion, Sion players should take 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 runes that we analyzed for Sion vs Malphite clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.3% win rate overall.
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