How to win lane as Sion against Ryze · 55.14% win rate over 2,189 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Sion | Ryze's Q-E poke is online at level 1 and your only tool is W — absorb the first two hits and do not walk into root range. |
| Level 2 | Sion | W-shield hits level 2 and his poke suddenly costs him more mana than it costs you health — short trades are yours once you can pop the shield on his Q. |
| Level 3 | Ryze | Full kit Ryze lands Rune Prison and chains Q-E-W-Q into you before your knockup can land — this is his cleanest kill window all lane. |
| Levels 4-5 | Sion | Once his root is on cooldown you can freely charge Q behind the wave and run the full E-Q knockup-shred combo — he cannot interrupt a committed pattern with no CC up. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Unstoppable Onslaught threatens the kill but Realm Warp lets him warp allies to the fight or escape the charge — neither of you has a clean decisive advantage here. |
| First item | Ryze | Ryze's first completed AP item (Seraph's into Shadowflame) spikes his burst past your W-shield capacity and his root-into-rotation can now kill you before Heartsteel HP saves you. |
| Two+ items | Sion | At two-plus items your HP stack is the highest in the game and your zombie Passive guarantees trade value even in losing fights — Ryze can win the 1v1 at range but he cannot stop you from winning the island. |
At level 1 Ryze can Q-E you freely and you have no real answer — farm at max Q range and do not try to charge into his face. The moment your W comes online at level 2, his poke math changes: you pop W before his Q lands and suddenly he is spending 80 mana to deal 40 health to a shield. At level 3 he is dangerous — his Rune Prison root is his win condition, locking you in place long enough for his full Q-E-W-Q rotation to chunk you. Play the charge telegraph behind the wave and only commit when you see the root whiff or come off cooldown.
The full Sion vs Ryze 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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