How to win lane as Sion against Lillia · 48.58% win rate (1,659 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Weather the poke — charge Q on the Blooming Blows cooldown and out-HP the lane.
Track: Lillia's Q — Blooming Blows (6–4s cooldown). Her kite + move speed stacks.
Read from Sion's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Lillia.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Sion | Lillia has no Blooming Blows stacks yet and no move-speed advantage, so a fully charged Q knockup from brush is unreadable and lands clean. |
| Level 2 | Lillia | Blooming Blows stacks give her passive move speed that widens her orbit — your Q telegraph is now readable and she steps off the ground slam every time. |
| Level 3 | Lillia | Full kit is live but her orbit is already established: E-slow into Q only if you catch her overstepping, otherwise accept poke and farm with W-shield soaking her DoT. |
| Levels 4-5 | Lillia | She loops Blooming Blows every 4-5 seconds and its outer edge adds true damage, while Swirlseed's flat 12s slow holds you inside it — you cannot charge Q without being dodged. |
| Level 6 | Lillia | Lilting Lullaby only makes you drowsy if her passive Dream Dust is already on you — arrive unpoked and her 150s ult has nothing to land on, so spend yours on map pressure. |
| First item | Even / skill | Heartsteel and Lillia's first AP item spike at near the same time, making this window genuinely contested — whoever executed the kiting phase better carries the item fight. |
| Two+ items | Sion | Her passive burns a share of your max health and her Q edge is true damage, so buy health over resistances; your W-shield and the zombie passive are what actually beat her. |
At level 1 Lillia has not yet stacked Blooming Blows passive move speed, so a fully charged Q is a real threat — use brush angles to hide the channel and catch her before the first wave clears. The moment she hits level 2 and starts cycling Blooming Blows her orbit widens with every stack, making your Q telegraph progressively easier to sidestep. Accept that levels 2 and 3 belong to her poke: your W-shield eats her W (Watch Out! Eep!) AoE damage, so absorb the DoT without trading back, last-hit safely, and do not channel Q in the open where she simply moves off the impact zone.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Sion's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Sion vs Lillia 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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Lillia, slightly — Sion wins 48.58% of 1,659 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Lillia has a small statistical edge (51.42% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Lillia has the slight edge (Sion wins 48.58%), though it stays close.
Sion takes Grasp of the Undying on the Resolve tree with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, and Precision secondary (Triumph and Legend: Haste) vs Lillia.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Core component + boots (≈1300g). Build Heartsteel (W + passive love HP) first, then Warmog's Armor / Thornmail, with Mercury's Treads.
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