Warwick vs Sion — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Warwick against Sion · 55.11% win rate over 626 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Warwick is favoured — Warwick owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Sion's 1. Warwick wins 55.11% of games vs Sion in top lane (626 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1WarwickLevel 1 favours you: Warwick's Q ticks out-trade Sion's slow early poke.
Level 2Even / skillLevel 2 is skill: a fully-charged Q Decimating Smash stun can swing the trade his way.
Level 3WarwickLevel 3 favours you: W Blood Hunt speed lets you sidestep the Q charge and punish its cooldown.
Levels 4-5WarwickLevels 4-5 favour you: Q sustain and speed win every trade where he misses his charge.
Level 6WarwickLevel 6 favours you: R Infinite Duress pins Sion through his knockups for a burst window.
First itemEven / skillFirst item is skill: Sion's armor/HP stacking and passive revive start neutralizing your kills.
Two+ itemsSion2+ items favour Sion: mass tankiness plus his engage ult outscale your single-target DPS.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Level 1 you win: your Q ticks beat his slow melee poke and he telegraphs everything. Level 2 is Skill — a landed charged Q stun can swing a trade hard, so respect the windup.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Warwick 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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