How to win lane as Malphite against Sion · 48.74% win rate over 2,066 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Sion | Sion outranges you at level 1 with E's shield-break missile and a charged Q knockup while you have no trade button — you just eat poke. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Your W/E aren't online yet but his Q is still on a long windup you can sidestep, so neither of you commits — it's a poke stalemate. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Granite Shield starts soaking his E poke and you can dodge the charged Q, evening out his early range advantage. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | W's armor buff and E's AoE attack-speed slow let you farm through his autos, but he still out-pokes from range — call it even. |
| Level 6 | Malphite | Unstoppable Force gives you all-in and roam threat an immobile Sion can't match — R interrupts his charging Q or flanks his zombie reset. |
| First item | Even / skill | Your armor stack makes E and W scale up and Granite Shield eats his E, but two scaling tanks just trade evenly into items. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Neither tank solo-kills the other and his zombie passive denies your wave — the lane comes down to who lands R first in the fight. |
Two slow tanks, but Sion has the longer arm early — his E is a ranged shield-break missile and a fully-charged Q knockup punishes you if you walk into its line, so at Levels 1-2 you have no answer and just eat poke. Do not contest the wave standing still; you have no trade pattern until W/E. Keep moving sideways so his Q charge never catches you, last-hit at max range, and let Granite Shield refresh between his pokes rather than tanking a full E in the face.
The full Malphite 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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