How to win lane as Gragas against Sion · 50.96% win rate over 522 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | We're both weak level-1s with no sustain or combo online yet — last-hit and don't burn Body Slam chasing his poke. |
| Level 2 | Gragas | Q+W gives you the empowered max-HP auto plus Happy Hour heal and damage reduction, so you win the short trade his Roar (E) opens. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | His charged Decimating Smash punishes a careless Body Slam engage and his cooldowns come up alongside yours — trades stay roughly even here. |
| Levels 4-5 | Gragas | W max and Happy Hour let you out-sustain his Roar armor-shred poke in any extended trade against a no-mobility tank. |
| Level 6 | Gragas | E-stun into W-auto-Q plus Explosive Cask is a real all-in — knock him off his minions and burst before his zombie passive matters. |
| First item | Even / skill | Your Riftmaker spike bursts through one Soul Furnace shield faster than he re-arms it, but a well-timed shield-plus-AOE can still even the all-in. |
| Two+ items | Sion | He out-scales as a pure tank — stacked resists outlast your combo and his charged Q interrupts your telegraphed Body Slam, so swap to peeling with Cask. |
Neither of us threatens much at level 1 — I have one ability and no Happy Hour reset yet, so just last-hit. At 2 I take Q and W: drink for the empowered, max-HP-scaling auto, and Happy Hour plus my damage reduction wins the short trade his Roar (E) armor-shred poke opens. The trap is his charged Q — if I throw a lazy Body Slam to engage, he holds the charge and knocks me up, so only E him when his Decimating Smash is down or uncharged.
The full Gragas 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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