I've racked up a number of Sion top and one mid game of late.

I've been running him 21-0-9 and he still feels plenty tanky enough most of the time.

I've been using two rune pages for him depending on my lane opponent.

Vs AD - 9 Hyb Pen, 9 Armor, 9 Magic Pen, 2 MS Quints + 1 Hyb Pen Quint
Vs AP - 9 Hyb Pen, 9 Scaling Health, 9 MR, 2MS Quints + 1 Hyb Pen Quint (grrr...Teemo).

Sion's main form of harrass in lane is Roar of the Slayer. It does silly damage if you manage to smack a minion into the enemy champion, especially given all the magic penetration you are sporting... Read More

I've always enjoyed characters that bring lots of hard CC like Leona and Nautilus. Being able to stun lock a champion long enough for the rest of your team to clean them up feels useful in a way that just plinking away at their health bars doesn't.

That said with certain kits, Nautilus is a good example, you don't necessarily want to focus all your CC on one champion. You want to spread it around and use it to keep people from getting away. Or in the case of retreating, you can use you bulk and abilities to let as many of your people get out of a bad engage.

I found a... Read More

I recently went though around a 15 game losing streak (totaled across 3 accounts!). Turned around and won my next 12 or so before dropping a game and then picked back up and started winning again with a W in the win column for my first ranked provisional for Season 5.

Here are some of my thoughts regarding things that can cause you to lose games and some potential solutions or simply points to consider.

AFKers

You can't do anything about AFKers. Don't sweat them. If you are still having a decent game play it out. If it is looking grim hit the surrender button. It is... Read More

Gragas Top

General observation about Gragas Top.

He is a safe pick. You'll likely be able to farm and harass your opponent a bit, and have a good chance of getting out of ganks between Body Slam and Flash, but you probably aren't going to win lane hard enough to make a difference in the match without jungler help or a mistakes on the part of your lane opponent. So, you have to be on the lookout for Teleport ganks to pull ahead of your lane opponent

Gragas vs Rumble

tldr; if you play a farm lane, Rumble has the edge is this matchup due to being... Read More

More rabble rousin'. This time vs. Shen and Nasus

Both are melee, get tanky, and have some innate sustain, so fairly similar enemies.

Both times I maxed Barrel Roll and the lane went fairly even with both.

Vs. Nasus, A pink ward in the tri-bush and a green ward in the river bush likely saved my life as together they stymied a two man gank by Jarvan IV and Gnar. I was even able to waste quite a bit of Jarvan's time by acting like I didn't know he was there. Gnar showed up shortly after Jarvan and then they decided to go in on me, but I simply used Body Slam... Read More