Gnar vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Gnar
based on 1,053 Gnar vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Sion
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Gnar against Sion counter stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sion..
Gnar normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Sion. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Sion
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Who is Better, Gnar or Sion?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Sion, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a bad counter for Sion.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate compared to Sion, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Sionas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gnar is a trash counter to Sion. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Sion during both the laning 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 above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Sion. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Gnar versus Sion build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Sion than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 48.0% battling Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Sion as Gnar, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Gnar vs Sion counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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