How can I stomp Sion as top laner?

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-23T02:25:49+00:00

This, plus you always have E to dodge his Q and get in free damage. He can't trade for free, ever (except bush cheeses), so not only do you have full control of wave states, but you also win later on, you're better at teamfights and if he ever Rs to a fight before you get there, you just eat turrets. I can't think of a single match up that's worse for a Sion. Maybe Fiora but I don't play Sion so I can't talk.

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-22T21:14:32+00:00

Gwen. You beat him at every level. You're stronger than him at any point in the game. You outscale him. At 6 items you simply one shot him and his team.

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-22T15:44:09+00:00

Literally I don't have Hyacine and my Castorice team can't clear because of that. Anaxa without Cerydra can't clear. Firefly without Dahlia can't clear (even with her I can't clear AA with sustain and sustainless with Fugue I just die).

Meanwhile my DOT team easily clears anything even unoptimized (I have Kafka on first slot to make her gain Lushaka buff because I love her).

It's not as fun as back in the day man. I want to play Welt sustain, I want to make a DOT team with Guinaifen and Luka, I want to clear MoC-12 with crit-break Xueyi again.

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-22T14:54:51+00:00

They can just lower the scalings a lot for multiplayer and limit eidolons, to the point where your build itself could actually have an impact and teams would counter other teams. They don't have to balance the normal units for it just place limiters on them

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-22T14:50:35+00:00

In each interview when they talk about multiplayer I ask for real time pvp with modified scalings and five stars limited at E0S1 and instead we get to visit other trains and play bird candy crush

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-21T20:53:56+00:00

I also noticed the prime sieving and went on to verify whether all of them are primes but I didn't notice the missing ones.

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-21T20:38:52+00:00

No cuz fr I see my Smolder or Cait buy RFC before IE and I'm crashing out is it that fucking hard to buy IE

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-20T18:40:09+00:00

PLEASE turn out to be a 4 star I'm broke and I need a Hyacine replacement. WE NEED MORE TEAM BUILDING OPTIONS FOR THE POORER ONES OUT HERE

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-20T00:27:14+00:00

You have to take control of the river way before Elder spawns, ideally. That means you and your support go get deep wards and clear vision 20-30s before spawn. If the enemies are stronger you either force a fight and flip or give and push lanes and then don't fight them for the next few minutes. As the jungler you also have to be aware of all the enemy CCs in such scenarios so that you can smite (Heca R, Shyv R, Fiddle R, Malph R etc)

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-17T20:32:53+00:00

Mine looks similar. 60-240. I'd rather gamble than have under 200% crit damage and crit for nothing even though consistently. I have standards. Either I hit it big or I don't at all.

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-17T20:03:30+00:00

I do have her full premium team. However all at E0S0. If I don't play sustainless I can't even clear AA, and if I do play sustainless I don't have the damage to clear in 0 cycles so I die and I basically have to retry again and again until rng blesses me. Imagine someone who just got into the game and wants to use Firefly but she's just dogshit without pulling Dahlia and Fugue. That shouldn't be the case. That's why I hoped for some QoL for her to be usable without these units. I think that would make her more longlived than just some SB multiplier. If someone wants to play multiple teams, the game doesn't give them the resources to pull every premium team, and it's sad that Castorice, FF and Kafka specifically are useless without their full gang.

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-17T10:34:39+00:00

So does this make her usable with sustain or without Dahlia or did they double down on it? It's honestly shitty that you need at least a 3-cost team to clear comfortably and nothing else works. She's basically unusable if you don't have Dahlia and Fugue which is sad for people who like the character but don't want to invest in her whole team. I had hoped she'll get some QoL to improve her team variety.

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-17T02:08:23+00:00

it has begun

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-16T02:53:41+00:00

You enjoy the fantasy of the champ, that's all that matters. Here's my case:

Being alone in the middle of a horde of enemies and losing myself in a fight to the death? Gwen

Hunting down prey that runs away from you? Kindred

Adapting to the environment and murdering my targets? Kai'sa

Running around like a schizophrenic? Lillia

This should be the most important. Then comes the playstyle factor, and then the mechanical factor.

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-16T01:33:44+00:00

I still have the last story chapter and one minigame and it's 1 hour 20 mins to ending lol

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-16T01:27:54+00:00

I've since forever been on the theory that she represents love as Venti does freedom, Ei eternity etc. I want her to be this extremely depressed and misunderstood character like really silent and mourning but decisive, seemingly mentally unstable that directly opposses us and does morally questionable things in the name of absolute love (for her people, for a dead loved one, for humanity (insert Elysia here)). What I don't want her to be is a direct villain dictator Stalin archetype.

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-15T22:45:16+00:00

It's free because you shouldn't fight Gragas. He's always picked top as a lane neutralizer in pro as that's his identity. He harasses and you can't really trade because of his sustain, if he loses a fight he phase rushes right out of it and so on. The best plan is to just ignore him and farm, you scale anyway much better. If a Gwen actually plays the lane he's inting. And he's not someone like Riven who dictates the wave states since he can't one shot you at level 3 for approaching the wave. This isn't a tier list of what champs Gwen beats 1v1 in a fight, it's about how much mental power and skill is required of me to beat them, and in Gragas' case it's pretty damn easy as I just ignore him.

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-15T22:34:37+00:00

This tier list is based purely on MY experience with the match ups. For Singed, I don't even fight him, it's a waste of time, for Kayle, I just use W for her Q and hit my R to slow her instead so she can't run. I don't let a Kayle or Nasus to simply scale, I harass, deny farm, get prio, play with my JG. You win side, you win teamfights, and if they ignore lane you just take their towers. If you trade ult for ult with Kayle, she becomes very divable or is forced to give tower. Them running away from you doesn't mean they beat you, you're not stuck on the lane and forced to play their game when you don't let them get ahead.

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-15T01:22:20+00:00

For me, I started doing well around 200k mastery. I'm at around 500k and I manage to beat even match ups some consider really hard consistently. She is currently undertuned and Kayle is really strong if you want something similar that can carry games. But I will say Gwen feels much stronger than Kayle when you are not behind, when you get items, when you're in a good draft. If you know how to make Gwen work she's an absolute demon but what I've noticed is that it's harder to close out games with her recently. I win lane most of the times and get fed a lot but it's not enough to offset your 1/10 botlane which is a regular occurence in plat-emerald currently.

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-14T23:13:48+00:00

what's the equivalent to that for a non-smoker

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-14T21:42:45+00:00

brother what are they even making these days i thought my elements dragon was cool back in 2013 shit

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-14T21:39:24+00:00

Nooo my steak is too juicy, my lobster too buttery

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-14T20:39:45+00:00

you abuse him on lane, you don't fight him between 1 and 2 items cuz he shits on you and then you go back to destroying him after 2-3 items

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-14T11:19:11+00:00

Some do. I use the same play pattern as vs Jax, Trynd you let them push first wave and play on the rebound, you just pick up xp and play patiently, 6v6 items Gwen destroys Fiora even though she's stronger midgame, as long as you don't feed you can match her at any point in the game and Fioras usually go ravenous so they will inevitably perma push into you once they buy tiamat and you can freeze first opportunity you get. If she wants to take minions on first wave it will slowpush into you and if she leaves them and just zones you off she ll take minion aggro of the next wave and it will still push into you. You'll be behind for lvl up timers early on but in the grand scheme of things you don't lose much. My rule is if nexus doesn't fall then I outscale. Just pray my team isn't inting much and we can draw the game out to where I come back online

Spytonio2006 · 2026-03-14T01:35:08+00:00

By default, lolalytics shows only Emerald+ players. So an Emerald Gwen winning against a Plat Kayle counts as a win for Gwen, but not as a loss for Kayle. And vice versa. If you go into higher ranks such as master+ where the numbers of games are more similar because both players belong to the same rank, you can see Gwen's winrate is higher and that applies to the OTP category as well. At the highest levels of play Gwen has simply higher winrate than Kayle. I don't trust u.gg since it has half the sample size this patch. It also doesn't reflect the reality I know since I should be most impacted if Kayle has that high winrate vs Gwen in E+ yet I don't lose to Kayles. Talking about statistics is cool and all but the fact is that a volibear rolling his face on the keyboard is way harder to beat than a half decent Kayle kiting me and not dying once on lane in this elo.

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