Sivir vs Mel Counter Pick

There is one interaction that decides more of these games than any stat line: Rebuttal reflects enemy projectiles back at the attacker. Boomerang Blade is a projectile, Ricochet’s bouncing attacks are projectiles, and a Sivir who keeps firing into the barrier feeds her own damage back to herself. Timing around that barrier is the skill the matchup tests, and across 579 recorded games on patch 16.13.1 Sivir still comes out at 54.4%.

The reason she does is that Mel has to commit first. Searing Brilliance grants bonus projectiles on her next attack after any ability, so her damage pattern telegraphs itself, and Solar Snare’s root is the only hard control she has, one cast that Spell Shield can swallow and convert into health and speed for Sivir. Mel is the heavier statline early at 630 health to 600, but she carries 21 armor against Sivir’s 30 and moves at 330 against 335, and Fleet of Foot widens that gap every time Sivir attacks a champion. Their attack ranges differ by 50 units, 550 against 500, which is the pressure Mel applies before anything else. Golden Eclipse detonating Overwhelm stacks at unlimited distance is the punish for careless disengaging, so leaving a fight wounded is not automatically safe. Mel finishes at 2,313 health, Sivir at 2,368. Difficulty sits at 5 for Mel and 4 for Sivir, and both spend mana. Champion pages: Sivir, Mel.