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.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some vital Sion against Rumble matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between this pair of champions. Sion’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sion may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rumble..
Sion often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Rumble. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sion usually wins when trying to fight Rumble, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Sion makes a good counter to Rumble.
While Sion does have a higher winrate than Rumble, when facing one another, Sion also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Sion into Rumble.
Additionally, Sion also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sion vs Rumble matchups, Sion is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Sion is a decent counter for Rumble. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Sion against Rumble.
To learn all of the intricacies of Sion to counter Rumble during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sion usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Rumble. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Sion versus Rumble build include Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Sion incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Rumble than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Sion had an average win rate of 51.0% battling Rumble with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Rumble 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 builds we have analyed for Sion vs Rumble LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
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