How to win lane as Sion against Darius · 49.34% win rate (4,420 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
His early all-in shreds you before you spike — dodge the Q-pull, charge from range, and survive to teamfights.
Track: Darius's E — Apprehend (26–16s cooldown). His all-in start. Q-stun after it.
Read from Sion's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Darius.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Darius | Darius's passive bleed procs on any hit and starts stacking immediately — at level 1 he only needs a few autos to threaten the empowered Q heal window, so walk away from any trade he starts. |
| Level 2 | Darius | At level 2 he adds his E pull to the rotation; a full 5-stack pull into empowered Q at this stage chunks HP your W-shield cannot fully cover yet — dodge his pull animation rather than tanking it. |
| Level 3 | Darius | His full E-Q-auto bleed into empowered Q at level 3 wins a sustained trade before your W-shield value is large enough to absorb it; pop W on the pull animation and back out before 5 stacks. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 still belong to Darius — Apprehend dictates every fight, and Decimate's blade edge heals him back through whatever Soul Furnace absorbs, so trade only at handle range. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Level 6 opens Unstoppable Onslaught as your gap-close tool and your zombie Passive gives every death trade value, making his R execute less clean — neither of you auto-wins the all-in here. |
| First item | Sion | Heartsteel compounds your HP, but his first item lands too and Apprehend's passive armour penetration means the stat does not answer him yet — buy Grievous Wounds before you commit. |
| Two+ items | Sion | At full build your zombie Passive means Darius spends his Noxian Guillotine R to end you and still faces 8 seconds of zombie combat; your HP total makes his Hemorrhage a small damage fraction and you win the war of attrition. |
Darius wins levels 1 through 3 cleanly — his passive bleed stacks from any touch, and his E pull at 5 stacks into a blade-edge Decimate is a kill threat Soul Furnace alone cannot eat at low HP totals. Your job is to keep stacks below 3: do not extend autos when Apprehend is up (26 seconds at rank 1), farm with Q tip from max range, and if he does close, stand inside him so Decimate catches you with the handle rather than the healing blade. Pop W the instant his pull animation fires. If you land a full charged-Q knockup before he closes, that stun buys time for Hemorrhage to fall off — but the telegraph is slow enough that he can step back out of the cone. One free blade-edge Decimate snowballs into an unkillable bleed window.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Sion's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Sion vs Darius 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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Nobody on paper — a 49.34% win rate over 4,420 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Sion vs Darius is a genuine skill matchup: 49.34% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Sion vs Darius win rate is 49.34%, an even lane decided by execution.
Sion takes Grasp of the Undying on the Resolve tree with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, and Precision secondary (Triumph and Legend: Haste) vs Darius.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Heartsteel (W + passive love HP) first, then Warmog's Armor / Thornmail, with Plated Steelcaps.
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