How to win lane as Sion against Lillia · 48.58% win rate over 1,659 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| 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 continuously through levels 4 and 5, and her Swirlseed (E) slow keeps you in her DoT field — you cannot reliably charge Q without being dodged. |
| Level 6 | Lillia | Her R (Lilting Lullaby) puts you to sleep mid all-in and her team punishes the wasted Unstoppable Onslaught — use your ult for map pressure, not solo dives into her range. |
| 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 | Your Heartsteel compound HP makes her flat-AP DoT lose effectiveness ratio-wise; your W-shield value scales with max HP and your zombie passive threatens her even through death. |
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.
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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