How to win lane as Gragas against Sion · 47.42% win rate (1,417 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Dodge his charged Q — E-Q burst his immobile body.
Track: Sion's Q — Decimating Smash (10–6s cooldown). Charged = knockup. Sidestep it.
Read from Gragas's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Sion.
This is Gragas's own plan; across 1,417 pooled games the lane is leaning Sion.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | You're both weak at level 1 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 you threatens much at level 1 — one ability each and no Happy Hour reset yet, so last-hit. At 2 take Q and W: drink for the empowered, max-HP-scaling auto, and Happy Hour plus damage reduction wins the short trade his Roar (E) poke opens. Roar knocks a minion back through you, so hiding behind the wave extends his poke instead of blocking it. Only Body Slam him when Decimating Smash is uncharged — a lazy engage into a held charge is a free knockup.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Gragas's side, sampled July 2026.
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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Sion, slightly — Gragas wins 47.42% of 1,417 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Sion has a small statistical edge (52.58% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Sion has the slight edge (Gragas wins 47.42%), though it stays close.
Gragas takes Grasp of the Undying on the Resolve tree with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, and Precision secondary (Triumph and Legend: Haste) vs Sion.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Riftmaker (sustain + AP curve) first, then Cosmic Drive, with Plated Steelcaps.
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