Garen vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Garen
based on 3,394 Garen vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Sion
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Advice to Win Against Sion
Use the time after Sion has died to reposition and prepare for his return.
Even if Sion still hits a Decimating Smash, making him release the charge earlier reduces its impact.
Garen vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Garen in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some valuable Garen against Sion counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sion’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sion..
Garen typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Sion. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Sion
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Who is Better, Garen or Sion?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when facing off against Sion, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a bad counter to Sion.
While Garen does have a lower winrate than Sion, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Sion.
Moreover, Garen has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sion. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter for Sion. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to counter Sion 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Sion. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Garen versus Sion build include Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Sion than with many other common item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 48.3% when playing against Sion with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Sion as Garen, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Garen vs Sion fights, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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