Sion vs Camille — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Sion against Camille · 50.54% win rate (1,561 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15

Verdict: Statistically even (50.54% win rate) — but the tempo isn't: Camille pressures 4 of the 7 stage windows in the plan below. Whoever converts their windows wins.

At a glance

Her hookshot kites your Q and true-damage shreds your tankiness. Charge from max range and never extend a trade.

Track: Camille's E — Hookshot (16–12s cooldown). Her engage/stun. Q-stun after it.

Do

  • Build armor early
  • W-shield her engage
  • Charged Q to peel her

Don't

  • Stack pure HP vs her W
  • Get E-stunned into her combo
  • Fight near walls

Runes & build vs Camille

Start
Doran's Shield + Health Potion
First back
Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts her healing
First item
Heartsteel (W + passive love HP)
Then
Warmog's Armor / Thornmail
Boots
Plated Steelcaps
Runes
Grasp of the Undying (Resolve): Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth · Precision: Triumph, Legend: Haste · Shards: Health Scaling, Adaptive Force, Health

Favour timeline — the windows in Sion's game plan

Read from Sion's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Camille.

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1Even / skillNeither kit has a decisive level-1 threat — her E hookshot is on a long cooldown and your W-shield is not yet online, so both sides auto-trade and farm.
Level 2CamilleW-shield online means her first Q true-damage proc gets absorbed; charge Q while her hookshot is down and she has no safe answer to the knockup.
Level 3CamilleHer full kit is online and Tactical Sweep's outer half tears your HP stack and heals her — she wins extended trades landing Q-auto, the far edge of W, then Q-auto.
Levels 4-5Even / skillHer hookshot cooldown drops with rank and she dashes wall-to-wall unpredictably — respect the E animation and never charge Q while she has a wall in hookshot range.
Level 6CamilleHer R drops a hex-arena that nullifies your R escape and isolates the 1v1 — she wins this window if your W-shield is on cooldown when she engages.
First itemEven / skillHeartsteel completion spikes your HP high enough that W-shield absorbs her burst budget; force trades on hookshot's cooldown with E-shred into charged Q.
Two+ itemsCamilleTwo-item HP total makes your zombie passive a genuine deterrent — she cannot dive you without risking the undead retaliation, and your W-shield value now exceeds her combo damage.

How to beat Camille as Sion: the early game

Level 1 is the one stage where neither kit has a decisive edge — Precision Protocol procs true damage off her autos, but Hookshot is 16 seconds at rank 1, so she cannot chain-knock you up freely. The moment you hit level 2, Soul Furnace changes the math: bait her into auto range, pop W to eat her first Q proc, then charge your Q while Hookshot is on cooldown. She cannot safely E into you mid-charge without eating the full knockup. At level 3 Tactical Sweep becomes the real threat — never let her land both Q autos plus the outer edge of that cone in one trade, because the outer half also heals her back up.

Hardest and easiest matchups for Sion in top lane

Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Sion's side, sampled July 2026.

Hardest

Easiest

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The full Sion vs Camille 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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Common questions

Who wins Sion vs Camille in top lane?

Nobody on paper — a 50.54% win rate over 1,561 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.

Is Sion vs Camille a skill matchup?

Yes — Sion vs Camille is a genuine skill matchup: 50.54% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.

Does Sion counter Camille?

No hard counter either way — the Sion vs Camille win rate is 50.54%, an even lane decided by execution.

What runes does Sion take vs Camille?

Sion takes Grasp of the Undying on the Resolve tree with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, and Precision secondary (Triumph and Legend: Haste) vs Camille.

What should Sion build vs Camille?

Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts her healing. Build Heartsteel (W + passive love HP) first, then Warmog's Armor / Thornmail, with Plated Steelcaps.

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