How to win lane as Sylas against Sion · 48.52% win rate over 643 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Both of you have single-ability access at level 1 — Sylas Q-slows from distance, Sion begins charging Q, but neither can force a decisive trade without taking equal poke back. |
| Level 2 | Sion | Sion can charge his Q the moment your E first dash animates, so the knockup lands before your hook pull completes — he wins the level-2 trade cleanly every time you approach carelessly. |
| Level 3 | Sion | Sion's full Q-W-E kit punishes every E approach: he knocks you up, absorbs your W with his own shield detonation, and E-pokes while you recover — your sustain cannot offset the spacing reset. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Both champions have full kits now and the trade is decided by approach angle — you punish the charged Q cooldown with E into W, he punishes your aggression with knockup into shield detonation; neither pulls ahead cleanly. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Stealing Sion's Unstoppable Force turns his primary engage into your engage tool, but his zombie passive and immovable bulk mean he retains teamfight threat even without his R — the window is real but not decisive. |
| First item | Sion | Sion's Heartsteel stacks and growing HP pool outpace what your Riftmaker can convert via W heal — he out-bulks your sustain spike and your E hook simply gifts him a free W-shield detonation at this point. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Both champions scale into relevant 5v5 tools — your stolen R plus E stun is a two-hit engage, his zombie passive is a second life; neither side has a winning edge and the lane result carries over, not the scaling. |
At level 1 neither of you has teeth — last-hit safely and do not throw your E into him blind. The danger window opens at level 2: Sion can begin charging his Q the moment he sees your E first dash, and if you complete the hook pull onto him he knocks you up before your W even fires. Respect the charge animation at all times; you will hear and see him wind up. Your job levels 1 through 3 is to Q-slow him from a distance, bait the charged Q by walking in and retreating, then punish the cooldown with a clean E hook into W. If you eat the knockup you lose the trade badly — his E poke adds chip damage on top of a W-shield he can detonate to push you away.
The full Sylas vs Sion 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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