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GoliathGames' Master guide to Sion

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I would recommend to fix the "My other guides" images both at the start and the end of the guide, as they're broken.

you said his on fiora :p lol nice guide

Hello,could you maybe add a part where you talk about when to build what?

What do you think about omnnistone with Sion? And aside of that, which keystone should I remove for when and if they apply that buff to the rune?

(45) |

Omnistone is fun, the thing about omnistone in terms of being viable is sometimes it's really good but sometimes it is also very useless, so it's just a very inconsistent rune.

what is better for you ad or ap sion what is better for climbing up

(45) |

You never want to go AP on sion, always AD/tank

is still good max e and arcane comet?

(45) |

it's still viable yeah, especially against poke lanes with no sustain such as like kennen or something like that it's great against.

ok ty :)

Can you add a build path for sion support?

(45) |

Maybe I could do this in the future, I'm not exactly sure what's optimal for support sion, but it would probably just be normal support tank items like knights vow, locket, etc..

(5) |

Sion the beast to stomp towers

(45) |

heck yeah

Only complaint is that I would have liked to see a few more matchups detailed.

(45) |

Yeah, I'm in the process of updating some matchups for this guide as well as adding some new ones in.

That would be awesome

Runes #3 Arcane Comet and resolve secondary for ranged opponents and vs darius

(45) |

Eh I don't really like comet so much on Sion anymore, you're better off going glacial vs ranged or even aftershock imo because E max is super weak now.

Also vs Fiora, just hug the wall as much as you can so she cant get her 4 vitals off

can i ask about yorick match up because he was my nightmare in ranked he was Darius v2 for me so i want some help

(45) |

Honestly I never see Yorick so I can't really give any solid advice sadly, generally against yorick though he can't do much unless he has his ghouls out so if you sidestep his e's and just kill his ghouls you should be fine, and it should be pretty easy to hit Q's on him in lane to trade. I'll let you know how it goes if or when I play against a yorick as sion though.

thanks man

Hi, i'm a Belgian player, gold rank, aiming to go higher.
Very nice build, indeed. I played and won 6 games in a row using it.
I am only a bit frustrated because it doesn't deal a lot of damage lategame. Even when i try to split-push, it takes really too much time to break a turret.
The tankiness is real though, nothing to argue about here. Heavy cc and huge engage ability with the ultimate...
Of course the item build needs to be adapted to every situation. Sometimes i add an iceborn gauntlet. Could you explain why you don't include it in your build? It it somehow a waste because of all the cc you already have?
As i learn to play Sion with this build, i'm starting to think that the power of the shield is a little neglected here. Now that i give more attention to it, i have actually managed to get a few kills with the damage of the explosion. So instead of maxing E then Q, i sometimes give one or two levels in the shield first. This works kinda nice against champions that can dodge or break your Q 24/7. Like katarina, yasuo or renekton. IMO, the shield is better vs them because of their burst dmg and slipperiness. But yeah, it's a different approach and timing.
Another negative point when playing Sion, in my opinion, is the passive. They all can dodge it pretty easily. All i have managed to get with the passive is: some minion kills, 4-5 hits on a turret, one champion kill because he was dumb, a flash used on an enemy because he got too scared.
Now... ok, i know it's better than nothing... but well... it's still kinda frustrating to "die a second time" without accomplishing anything good :-p and since i don't die that often... this feels like a waste, ironically :-D

Anyway, i'm very grateful for this guide. Helped a lot so far! Huge thanks to you!

(45) |

I'm glad you're liking the build, I'll try to explain each point you have the best I can.

I personally don't go iceborn because you don't benefit from the mana on it since righteous glory + manaflow band should be enough mana, I can understand the damage is lackluster especially against tanks but with your sunfire cape plus your spells you still should be able to kill squishies a lot of the time, as for the turrets iceborn could help there but I don't really find myself taking turrets very often with Sion besides the first one in top lane sometimes.

Yeah shield is surprisingly stronger then people think, I'm not really sure if putting points into it before Q is good, but I will say that the damage on your W already scales off their max health so it's going to be decent damage level one anyway, plus there is the risk that you might not always get the damage part off which could make Q better, but I understand against slippery targets where Q is hard to hit, so I'm not 100% sure on that.

The passive is really hit or miss for me it either does nothing or it does a lot, one thing to look out for is if your teammates have CC because if you die and have something like a morgana Q that can lock somebody down then your passive is awesome since you can just smack em down, but yeah a lot of the time it will just be useless especially since almost every champion in league has some type of dash or a way to CC you. Also it can be used sometimes for zoning one of their carries out of a fight since he has to run away from you, which I should probably add in the guide, oh and also another thing about the passive I'm not sure if you're aware of is you can use righteous glory active while in it so sometimes that can help you stick onto somebody but most of the time your righteous glory will be on cool down since you probably just fought with it.