ok im gonna give some advice early game

i open up with death's caress, why?

well lets look at the advantages and cons

1. you give up an early stun that does the same damage as death's caress,please take note of that

2.death's caress allows for aoe damage against creeps,meaning more gold

3.death's caress cost 70 mana with its first level compared to 100 with cryptics gazes first level so you have the ability to fool around a bit more

4.death's caress adds hp to your character meaning you have the ability to give damage while taking none

5.cons: if they snipe your shield the aoe is pretty worthless and you can't do as much damage early game,on another note you can also tank the shots with death's caress while your range gives damage to the opposing heros so its not really a con

6. i believe this gives you all the reasons you need to choose death's caress first and i will explain more as to why

7. you are giving up a stun that you can jsut get later on

8. in the meantime you saving more mana while doing decent damage and preserving your own health

9.now the builds i do, i do a 0-2-1 opening with my fourth skill on my stun why? because with the build and reasons prescribed, i do not need my stun incredibly fast but i do need it relatively fast

10. there are variations i do,if my opponents are incredibly agressive, i open 1-1-0 dealing early damage with a high mana price however,i generally prefer not to open this way

11. the next build is 1-1-1 which i will explain why its better then the 1-1, so you open 0-1-1 which gives your death's caress and rage's passive which can help a bit more then you realize with opening shield but its better timed in that with rage's increase in regular meelee attacks it not only helps your champion early game kills it just outrights makes it better

12. now the build i do the most is this i open with death's caress and get my rage at level 2, i then get another point in death's caress for added protection + aoe dps on creeps for gold after this i get a skillpoint in cryptic gaze,the idea is that i want to get my opponents tower hugging that by the time i have enough ap to kill the ranged dps minions with a certain technique i will elaborate on

13. this is where things get technical fast,you need to hit the ranged dps minions once each while having your death's caress active,there are 2 things that need to be active in order for you to do this,one is you do not have a hero in your lane that can get you near a turret fast if you do try to stay away from the turret and only do it in the middle where its relatively safe, the next thing is verses high dps champions try to get 1 or 2 of the ranged minions down and save the last for a coming in with another deaths caress + stun combo trying to damage the ranged dps player(preferably one without stun as well)take note that this technique is used at level 4 and onward with my runes at least :P

14. WHY DO I LOVE THIS SO MUCH AS AP SION? well there are a few reasons but the best reason i woudl say is the gold influx, you get alot of gold pretty fast in elaboration with how fast? well with the general increase in gold ect i tend to go for my +80 ability power rod as fast as possible and tend to get it around level 6-8 oh an i forgot to mention i get boots speed aura one when i go back that is a total of 1950 gold

15 i will elaborate a bit more on the build (sorry for going in circles) the 1-2-1 build is meant to level the shield incredibly fast for minion mining meaning at level 5 you put antoher point in your death's caress,your relying on a few things and why this is better you mgiht ask? well you see im not relying that my stun+ shield combo will do damage to their heros,what i am aiming for is that they take damage if i can get them but my main goal is the minions for gold,the stun is jsut an extra on the side which is pretty sweet ;) with death's caress

16. that is my reasoning for opening the way i do i will go into lategame transitions ect and will elaborate more on why i tend to get rabadon's death cap first and the reason is to kill minions for gold with aoe affect and that is all,now you can transition jsut fine with your early advantages very well into the build he is prescribing also for the note i tend to get boots along with 1600 gold power rod however if you die before then get the 860 with boots ,what this will do is give you a bit of makeup power for the time you were dead to deal a bit more damage when they aren't expecting it

17. in the lategame what is my goal? well since i go all out offense with pure ap runes and mp runes,i tend to want to make sure i only go in for death's caress on team fight's after everyone commits since i tend to play with relatively bad people they go in one at a time so i tend to just camp which sucks :[ but if your with a good team yous hould generally be the third person in targeting their dps/supports heros , now i like this build because it transitions nicely out of my opening with some nice survivability and will definitely try it however i tend to like my opening and will only take a few of the hints/items from this but my general goal is to get as many minion kills as humanly possible with the ap aoe death's caress upped as quickly as possible it gives you a nice bump in your gold gathering


18. i will show you a certain case where doing this opening is good, this is only meant as a last resort but i will show you its very situational,if your versing an opponent that can go stealth i tend to open 0-2-2 for death's caress protection along with added meelee damage since they want to try to damage you up close (evelynn and akali) if your versing twitch just open the first way and you should be good since he doesn't have a stun (evelynn) this build is only meant to be used for these heros, why? well generally the idea of stealth champions i want to do as much damage as possible while my teammate goes for the killing blows where one of us gets the kill but death's caress negates alot of the damage not only that with the added damage from rage you deal alot of damage without expending mana,that is very key to note.however i tend to open only verses stealth heros that are meelee this way.the disadvantage of having your cryptic gaze do less damage then it could at any given point in the game until maxed leveled is generally not good and is somewhat of a bummer,so this build is very situational and is generally only when laning against these heros.

19.i tend to have alot of builds that are very situational along with basic builds so yeah...... also please forgive me for the bad grammar,spelling mistakes and bad organization i did this fast and do not want to correct anything ;)

you didn't even read the first chapter.This build is an idea of how to open/mindset rather then just a specific build.also before you criticize anything,at least read it.Also i use this build verses a very heavy magic based team just for your information.Since magic resist helps only with that if not then i open up a different way

You should get stun at level one in case of getting attacked/attacking

The text needs to be rewritten cuz it looks ****, no1 is able to read this build. Sorry.
I also dont like the build items you choosed, there are better items for Sion and a better way to build him.