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Sion Build Guide by set435

Top A [8.14] (inprogess) Guide to Free Elo Flexibile Mainly Top

Top A [8.14] (inprogess) Guide to Free Elo Flexibile Mainly Top

Updated on July 21, 2018
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Choose Champion Build:

  • LoL Champion: Sion
    Full AD [HARD]
  • LoL Champion: Sion
    Full AD [EASY]
  • LoL Champion: Sion
    AP Hybrid Sion (To Win Top and
  • LoL Champion: Sion
    Full Tank (To Support Your Tea

Spells:

LoL Summoner Spell: Ignite

Ignite

LoL Summoner Spell: Flash

Flash

Threats & Synergies

Threats Synergies
Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny
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None Low Ok Strong Ideal
Extreme Threats
Ideal Synergies
Synergies
Ideal Strong Ok Low None

NOTICE

I WILL BE UPDATING THIS GUIDE FURTHER, I JUST NEED TO ADD CHAPTERS AND MATCHUPS AND RUNES
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Who am I?

Hi! I am known as set435 in most of the games I play and the highest I've gone so far was p5 but then fell to g4. On my alt accounts for venting, I am a Sion main and got out of bronze and climbed to s2 playing Sion then fell as more and more people banned Sion and Sion was nerfed.
For this guide, I feel like people from bronze to plat can use this, the lower the elo the better the play.
Best ranked account: Atsheila
Alt Sion main account: set435

My highest ranked account's LP chart
My alt account's Sion ranked winrate
Alt account LP chart
Alt account proof
Highest Ranked Account Proof
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Why Play Sion?

Sion is a champion that has been reworked and Sion still has the same feeling, he's still fun to play AP or AD and that made him one of the most unpredictable champions to play. Sion is a fun champion to play, as he has a lot of cc and can 1v1 and/or can be crucial to teamfights. Each time you enter a game vs Sion, you don't know if this boi is going to one shot you with just Ult, going to do insane poke with his AP E+W, or just never die. Sion has a kit that allows a flexible person to do anything and while champs like Riven have their animation cancels and combos, Sion is unique because there's always a different way that works (Crit build, Predator, PermaSlow Sion, etc.) against any situation. You autofilled and got support? Go Sion. You got mid but your mid champs are banned? Go AP Sion and max E. Got jungle but you don't know how to jungle? Go Sion. (I will come out with a Sion jungle guide later on) You need a tank/mage/assassian? Go Sion. Need to make a MobaFire guide and you don't know what champion to do? Go Sion. You need money to buy the Mecha Zero Sion skin? Get a job. You want to teach people the holiness of Sion? Inspire the world with the gift of Sion. Sion is a wonderful champion as it strives people to become better, I went from being insulted by my teammates to getting cheered as a savior of LP. I went from insulting my oppenents to getting oppenent's salty complaints of "Rito nerf AD Sion".
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Pros / Cons

Of course, Sion isn't a perfect being or he would be the deity of Riot himself, here're some things to abuse/watch out for.

PROS

    A very flexible champion
    He has a lot of bugs in his kit that can be manipulated
    Fun to play
    Any playstyle works
    Easy to learn, hard to master
    Classic Sion can dance with his mastery emote if timed properly
    As of patch 8.14, he is played very rarely and no one bans
    Wins teamfights in small cramped areas

CONS

    He is especially vunerable to cc in early trades
    No taunt, so you have to be a literal wall in front of your team
    His Q can be dodged/you will land a full Q 1% of the time you play Sion
    Trades as a Sion are very mana costly
    Ranged champs almost win lane vs Sion
    Some dueling top laners (Darius, Jayce, Fiora, Garen etc) just beat Sion with their kit
    His Q can be seen
    High mobility champions excel against a Sion
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Why not only tank ftw?

The reason why I am not focusing on tank Sion is for a few reasons:
    AD Sion is satisfying to play against squishes once you master the art of Sion
    AP Sion is satisfying to play against lane bullies once you buy and play Sion
    Tank Sion is pretty useless tbh, he can't taunt meaning there's no way to soak up damage 100% of the time, why not build damage and some tanky items to survive enough
    AD/AP Sion have such low CDs from items
    Its just fun to play AD/AP Sion rather than do no damage
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Team Comps: With who should I be with?

Sion in general exceeds with teammates who need cc to excel or teammates who can pull glue enemies together. There's a lot of champions down this list so here we go:(adding the glue champions later)

CHAMPIONS THAT EXCEL WITH SION CC


Annie is someone who needs to land her R and W and a good Sion ult or Q can allow her to place a stunning R or W which can pick off the carry of the enemy team
Sol is champion who can land a Q or a R with your Q or R to push enemies back into his nether regions which can help your team either escape or with his Q, help land a wombo combo.
Brand is someone who needs to land a W+Q+R to melt away the enemy team, so a Sion Ult or Q can fufill this combo assuming you ult into the whole enemy team. If you E and slow, even a noob Brand can W+Q to stun then kill them.
Cass is really good champion to play with Sion, this is due to Cass able to land a easy W and slow to help you Q or R and as they are stunned land a Q and/or E and maybe a ult to stun them even more.
Darius needs gapclosers like AD Sion, and a infinte stun counts as a gapcloser. If your Darius goes AD and not tank, land a R, he W and Q, and while this happens, you Q for another stun, then he aa until he gets 5 stacks and then GG
Diana is useful the second you land a Q or R, she ults in, Q+W+E then you just murder them all :)
Ekko, assuming he isn't a noob, can W in the space of your R or Q, then its infinite stun and then he can ult/q/e and its gg assuming their carry dies, I would not recommend going with a EKko for 90% of your Rs or Qs unless he's a genius like Shiptur (just to clarify, a m7 0/10 Ekko is not a genius)
This is a long stretch, I would not consider Eve as a champion who excels in CC, but as I just met a Eve main, this was my promise to put this in the guide. Eve is exception where you have to go AD in most games, why? Because once your insane Q or R lands, assuming you are using my build, eve can just ult and get at least a double kill. Its a long stretch, but its viable.
Fiddlesticks is one of the champions I hate the most in any lane because of his stupid kit. It sucks to lane against him, but as a teammate, his Ult+E+Zhonyas is really good if he is going AP. But your Q or R can help him ult in and do more damage with you. Pretty sure the stun lasts enough for him to ult in
You land R or Q, he R+E, ggwp (yeah I hate fizz)
A good GP doesn't need you to crit his barrels, but a good enemy team can predict. So you're going to have to R+Q for his E is land +R, while his R doesn't do that much damage, it slows and helps your team catch up.
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