Zaahen vs Sion Counter Pick

Sion’s toolkit runs on charged, easy-to-read windups, and his results across 1,045 games on patch 16.13.1 bear that out: 55.7% for Zaahen, a sample big enough to take seriously.

Early on Sion has the edge in attack damage, 68 to 63, while both champions share a 175 attack range and the same 345 move speed. The gap opens later. Sion ends at 2,134 base health to Zaahen’s 2,578, and his armor sits at 107.4 against 121. Soul Furnace helps by permanently increasing his maximum health with each kill, but that scales with farming, so it does little for him once a fight has turned against him.

Zaahen’s main advantage is that very little of Sion’s kit lands instantly. Decimating Smash is a charged swing, Unstoppable Onslaught is a long charge that can be steered, and Soul Furnace takes three seconds to detonate. All of it can be seen coming and dodged with Aureate Rush. The one tool that truly threatens him is Roar of the Slayer, which strips armor from the first enemy it hits. Glory in Death adds another wrinkle: a Sion who has been killed keeps going with rapid healing attacks, so the fight isn’t settled when his health hits zero. The damage-based healing from Grim Deliverance is what lets Zaahen survive that second phase. Sion’s stat progression is listed on his Sion entry.