How to win lane as Graves against Sion · 49.06% win rate over 53 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Sion | Sion's — your level 1 is one ability with no E mobility and short shell range, while his charged Q knockup punishes you for stepping up to CS and his W shield eats your return poke. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Even — you pick up a second ability but still have no full combo, and his charged Q plus W shield keep the early trades roughly square. |
| Level 3 | Graves | Yours — with Q, W and E online you E in for the point-blank shell spread and drop W to blind his auto and zombie-state chip, out-DPSing an immobile Sion. |
| Levels 4-5 | Graves | Yours — your True Grit armor and two stacking E charges compound in the extended melee fight that an escape-less Sion can't disengage from. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Even — your R nuke makes the all-in lethal, but Sion's level 6 is only more tankiness and his fresh W shield still eats a full shell volley. |
| First item | Graves | Yours — your Eclipse/Youmuu's first-item spike is your peak duel power, well ahead of a Sion still finishing his first tank item. |
| Two+ items | Sion | Sion's — at two-plus tank items his HP pool shrugs off your armor-stacking burst, and his Glory in Death zombie passive lets him keep swinging and trade back even after you win the fight. |
Sion owns the very first level — your kit is just the Q powder trail with no E dash to reposition, and his charged Q can knock you up the moment you step into your already-short shell range to CS, while his W shield eats your return poke. Don't walk into a fully-charged Q to last-hit; take the safe farm with the tip of your Q detonation and wait for level 3. The lane flips there: E in for the point-blank 4-shell burst, throw W on top of him so the blind cancels his auto and zombie-state chip, then E back out on your second charge before he can W-shield and detonate the AOE.
The full Graves 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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