How to win lane as Gnar against Sion · 51.03% win rate over 876 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Both of you are passive level-1s — last-hit at Boomerang range and just dodge any charged Decimating Smash; neither champ owns the level yet. |
| Level 2 | Gnar | Hyper's third consecutive hit plus a Boomerang punishes Sion's base HP for free, and with no dash he can't answer Gnar's move-speed burst. |
| Level 3 | Gnar | Gnar's Mini kit is fully online and Sion is still immobile — kite with the Boomerang slow and Hyper speed and he can't close the gap to trade back. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | It's a coinflip at 6: strong if Rage lines up for a Mega Wallop stun, but a liability if Gnar's stuck in Mini when the charged Decimating Smash knockup lands. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Neither gets a true power spike here — it comes down to whether Mega is up; with it Gnar wall-combos for a kill, with Sion just farming it's a wash, so call it skill. |
| First item | Gnar | Mini-Gnar's poke range lets him deny Sion's soul stacks and force Soul Furnace shields instead of farm, pulling the lane tempo his way. |
| Two+ items | Sion | Sion outscales hard — two tank items plus his base bulk shrug off Gnar's Mega burst (and his zombie keeps fighting after death), so the late game is Sion's. |
Sion can't catch you, so this is a free poke lane in Mini — auto-and-Boomerang his big base HP and step out before his E (Roar of the Slayer) shield-breaks back. The one thing that flips it is a fully-charged Decimating Smash: never stand still when he's winding up the Q, and especially don't get knocked up while your Rage bar is mid-transition between forms. At level 2 his lack of a dash means Hyper's third-hit proc and its move-speed burst let you walk in, chunk him, and walk out for nothing.
The full Gnar vs Sion report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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