Twisted Fate vs Sion Counter Pick

Sion is a Top-lane tank who sometimes takes a detour into mid, and across 243 games on patch 16.13.1, Twisted Fate sits at a 46.1% win rate. The issue isn’t how much damage he deals. His kit has very few ways to take Sion out of a fight fast enough to matter.

Glory in Death brings Sion back after death, with quick healing attacks that turn a won trade into a second round. Soul Furnace gives him a shield and permanently increases his maximum health whenever he gets a kill, and Roar of the Slayer removes armor from the first enemy he hits while slowing them. Add 655 base health and 36 armor on top of that, and neither Wild Cards nor a boosted Pick a Card attack gets over the threshold. His damage comes in two forms, so one resistance item can’t cover both.

At level 18, the numbers actually favor Twisted Fate on health, 2,440 to 2,134, while Sion comes out ahead on armor, 107.4 to 98. Getting there means living through a charged Decimating Smash and Unstoppable Onslaught, a charge that builds momentum and closes distance faster than a 330 movement speed champion can run, and Sion already moves at 345 before it begins. The workable approach is the lane wave and the map: Stacked Deck speeds up the shove, Loaded Dice makes items cheaper to buy, and Destiny with Gate moves the fight to wherever Sion isn’t. Difficulty ratings of 9 for Sion and 5 for Twisted Fate make the gap clearer.