Zaahen vs Sion Counter Pick

Sion’s kit is built from charged, telegraphed motions, and the record across 1,045 games on patch 16.13.1 reflects that: 55.7% for Zaahen, on a sample large enough to trust.

Sion opens with the higher attack damage, 68 against 63, shares the same 175 attack range, and matches him at 345 move speed. The pairing separates late. Sion finishes at 2,134 base health while Zaahen reaches 2,578, and armor lands at 107.4 against 121. Soul Furnace compensates by permanently raising his maximum health on kills, but that is a farming mechanism, not something he can extract from a fight he is losing.

Zaahen’s advantage is that almost nothing Sion does arrives instantly. Decimating Smash is a charged swing, Unstoppable Onslaught a long steered charge, and Soul Furnace needs three seconds before it can be detonated, all readable and all avoidable with Aureate Rush. Roar of the Slayer reduces the armor of the first enemy hit and is the one tool that genuinely threatens him. Glory in Death also means a killed Sion keeps fighting with rapid healing attacks, so the exchange is not over when the health bar empties; the damage-based healing on Grim Deliverance is what carries Zaahen through that second phase. Sion’s stat curve is on the Sion entry.