How to win lane as Sion against Poppy · 52.38% win rate (1,323 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Dodge her E — charged Q stun, out-trade her.
Track: Poppy's E — Heroic Charge (14–10s cooldown). Wall-pin stun. Dodge it.
Read from Sion's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Poppy.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Neither kit has CC online at level 1 — it is a pure auto-trade that Poppy neither wins nor loses cleanly before her E is available. |
| Level 2 | Poppy | Heroic Charge (E, 14s at rank 1) pins you to a wall for the stun, and Hammer Shock's zone explodes on top of you — hugging the side walls loses this lane outright. |
| Level 3 | Poppy | With Heroic Charge and Hammer Shock both up her stun-into-zone pattern is assembled, and you have no answer to the wall angle unless Soul Furnace is already raised. |
| Levels 4-5 | Sion | She has all her tools but no ultimate, and your charged Q (a ground slam her W passive does not block) threatens a stun every time she walks up to CS — the lane stabilises in your favour. |
| Level 6 | Poppy | Keeper's Verdict (R) comes online and interrupts Unstoppable Onslaught mid-charge; she retakes the threat window because your primary engage tool is now countered until you bait the R out. |
| First item | Sion | Heartsteel HP begins compounding and your W-shield value scales with max HP — short trades now cost Poppy more than they cost you and she has no percent-HP tool to punish the bulk. |
| Two+ items | Sion | At full item she has no execute or true damage to cut through your HP mountain, and your zombie passive threatens objectives even when you are dying — the scaling race is decisively yours. |
At level 1 this is genuinely even — neither of you has meaningful CC online yet and both are melee with short-trade kits. The moment she hits level 2 the dynamic shifts: her Heroic Charge (E) wall-stun is live and she will angle every trade to pin you against the lane wall for a free Q knockup. Stay in the middle of the lane, never hug the side brush walls, and raise your W-shield before she closes to absorb the Q hit. If she hits the wall stun you eat a full knockup with no response — that is the one combo she wins the whole lane on.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Sion's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Sion vs Poppy 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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Sion, slightly — a 52.38% win rate edge over 1,323 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Sion has a small statistical edge (52.38% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Sion has a slight edge (52.38% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
Sion takes Grasp of the Undying on the Resolve tree with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, and Precision secondary (Triumph and Legend: Haste) vs Poppy.
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 Plated Steelcaps.
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