I've been playing Sion only since season 2. I have played him in every role and in every lane throughout the seasons. Built every possible items and used every single runes. Lately I have been playing a lot of support Sion and climbed to diamond. I think he is a great pick without any true counters in the bot lane. He is really fun and breaks conventional wisdom. My average win rate over 1000 games is 65.40%. Constructive feedback is welcome in comments.

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Pros

Cons

Which one should you max first? This mostly depends on your playstyle and the build that you're going for. It also depends on your own skill. If you can't land skillshots then your only option is to max W. You want to max the ability that gives you the most value for the game while knowing what you're able to pull off.

Here are the five pages that I propose in this guide, one for each tree.

Precision

Domination

Sorcery

Resolve

Inspiration

As you can see, Sion can use pretty much every rune which is why he is a very versatile pick. I didn't include all the runes that could work so feel free to be creative. The only runes that you should never consider are Conqueror, Overheal, Sudden Impact.

You can mix and match your spells depending on what you want from the game.












Always consider Nimbus Cloak or Cosmic Insight to improve your spells. Playing around your spell cooldowns is a good solid way to win the game consistently. When they are down you play safer, when they are up you force fights.

Items Choices

Some general tips when playing ranked if you want to climb:

• Don't be toxic. Don't flame in chat, don't abuse the ping system.
• No one wants to be taught how to play the game. Don't teach randoms how to play their role while in-game.
• A lot of games are won or lost off the mental difference. I've won so many games this season while my team was behind by 10k gold. And I'm not talking about 40+ minute games. Games can flip so fast and be ended so fast nowadays. Personally as long as I play Sion I have fun so I'm always down to try to win.
• If someone's pings are annoying, mute their pings. If someone flames in chat, mute their chat. There's no point dealing with that shit if your goal is to climb.
• Don't ask for someone to be reported. Your own report is enough.
• Even the best players go on huge loss streaks. It happens.
• If you don't have fun, you don't have to play. It's ok to take breaks.

For more, read Riot's Summoner's Code.

In the bot lane, Sion brings long range poke and AOE hard CC. His shield also allows him to be a lane bully. Some ADCs have really bad wave clear or they have to spend a lot of mana to push the waves. With Sion, all his abilities deal damage. Also his Q can be controlled to deal precise damage to leave minions at 1 hit making it easier to CS for the ADC. If your ADC is low mana, they are trolling you. You can always punish bad enemy backs by hard shoving. Sion always has kill pressure with a good E setup. Sion is a zoning champion, your main goal should be to enable your allies to be where they want to be on the map and to punish enemies that aren't in the correct position on the map.

Early game

Before the first wave, your goal is to stop invades. Sion's Q can solo destroy invades. On the blue side you can stand in the tri-brush or the brush behind red. On the red side you'll usually stand in the brush near the river behind the blue buff.

In lane, you want to fight for level 2. Use the Spoils of War passive on the second wave's melee minions. You can also use Q on the first wave. If they concede the level 2, then you can stop attacking minions and start a slow push.

At level 2 you have to decide if you level E or W. If the lane goes well or is even, I'll usually take E. Sometimes I take W to outplay a fight.

Sion loves to push the lane gaining tempo and fighting for scuttle with the jungler. If you have lane prio, you can dictate how the game goes early on. Usually if there's a fight going on you want to be there. You can even help the jungler with their clear so that you can gank a lane together, controlling the map.

With Sion, you want to do fast plays on the map. You don't want to let enemies react. If a play takes too long, then their backup arrives, you want to leave before that happens.

In lane, make sure to always clear the wards in the lane brushes. Especially after 10 minutes, if you push, enemies will look for TP plays. You can't allow TPs behind you. If they do TP, Sion thrives in fights where you have vision control.

Mid game

In the mid game, towers have started to fall, that shrinks the map. You want to look and punish anyone that overextends. A lot of players don't respect Sion's ability to ult down a lane or along the river. You'll want to place deep lane wards or on rotation spots to find good choke point for your ults. This part of the game is support Sion's bread and butter. You're looking to create power plays and put a lot of gold on your carries.

Late game

Lategame tends to be where Sion can both shine or completely throw a game by himself. There are two ways to play the late game, either you want to team fight and get an ace, or you want to avoid direct team fights by out rotating the enemy team and taking objectives quickly (towers, dragon, baron, inhibitors, catches). Having a Vigilant Wardstone is really important in this part of the game for the vision control game. If your team has good depush, I like to side lane with the top or mid laner. I'll stand back a few screens away from them ready to ult against anyone that comes to match them. If nothing happens, I can ult mid where the rest of the team should be at for a good flank angle.

When you don't have to leash for your jungler, you can mess up the minions on the first wave to get an experience lead. If enemies have to leash, they will miss some experience which will prevent them from contesting the level 2.

To do it, hit a melee minion and aggro the whole wave, then run into the brush to break the aggro:


Notice how one of the red melee minions dies before Kai'Sa makes it to the lane.


You can secure the Scuttle Crab while doing the drake or Baron by bringing it into the pit.



You can reset a camp to prevent a jungler from smiting it.



You can use Sion's passive to clear control wards.

One key aspect of playing support is how you can control the map to gain an advantage. Tracking the information that enemies have access to means that the plays that your team will go for will work more often. A dark map on the other hand will induce a lot more mistakes from your enemies.

There are 3 types of wards that you will want to practice. The first are fighting wards. Those are the wards you need in moment to moment fights. This usually means that you should ward brushes around were you're fighting or planning to fight in. For example, let's say I plan to fight in the bottom lane, I'll want to have 1 ward or 2 in the lane brushes or sometimes in the alcove. These wards prevent enemies from outplaying you as easily in a fight.

The second type of wards is rotation wards. Those wards are meant to track the movements of your enemies around the map. For example, let's say you're playing against a Pyke, it's useful to ward the river in front or behind the drake to catch him while he is on the move to another lane.


These wards are usually safe to drop while you're roaming. You'll usually want to drop them in places that avoid enemy control wards.

The last type are deep wards. For Sion, those wards will allow you to do long range ults. Good spots are deep down enemy lanes when towers start falling. If your team has a TP, they can be good flank TP wards. They are also useful for gaining information on the enemy jungler. Those wards are less safe to place in general.

Sion is a team champion. To get a lot of value on this pick, you have to choreograph your plays so that your team knows what to expect. A lot of the time, they won't see plays like pulling people into a brush so you get a free Q. They'll also not know to step up further on the map and control bigger zones than usual. Especially early in the laning phase, you will often have the opportunity to do Flash plays. Make sure to ping that first so your ADC can react. I always ping that I'm going in when I die so that allies can consider the zombie passive outplay.

Learn to use pings to make macro calls so that your team moves well around the map. Good rotations make playing Sion feel like a breeze. Something I like to do when I'm roaming is to blue ping my position every 1 second. I find that it helps people time my roams better.

Support Sion Masterclass

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Predator Support Sion with ghost + flash

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How to support for a Rengar jungle

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There are more videos on my channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SupportSion/videos.

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I played a lot of support Sion this season into every matchup. I find it a really fun pick with a lot of skill expression. I climbed to diamond 3 so far after not really playing for 2 seasons.

This guide is a work in progress. Is there anything missing? Leave feedback in the comments and I'll improve the guide.

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