User blog comment:Astanas7/Let's talk Sion without much formatting/@comment-5331854-20140122150649


 * naming the blog title "Let's talk Sion without any formatting"*


 * has formatting in the very first sentence in the form of making "that guy" a link*

Everyone, let's do the Kirk *facepalm*

So, now that's out of the way, let's talk Sion and let's talk blogpost. What I'm saying now is practically the essence of my own blogpost regarding Sion, so you're welcome to have a look and disagree with me.

Sion has a very weird kit and his many possible combinations of useful stats, positions and "climax times" (the times where he is most efficient) makes him hard to understand, hard to play and hard to win as. It's still possible though. And when you're going AP, he has few counterplays (which is the real problem with Sion).

First, "Q just sucks" is soooooo wrong. 300 + 0.9 AP scaling on 8s CD when maxed is a strong tool to work with and is one of the reasons why AP Sion is strong in a toxic way (the other reason also has 300 + 0.9 AP scaling on 8s CD when maxed: His W). Even if you're going AD or tank, you'll like the ranged 1.5s stun as a melee who needs to be close to someone (just as W as AD-Sion gives you a shield nonetheless, which most melees either have or wants)

His E may be a relict from a time when lifesteal wasn't as common as nowadays, someone from beta could tell about the situation of it. Yes, you can have it on all the time when having something better than Doran's Blade, but why is it bad in Sion's case? There's Vi, Vayne, Teemo, Ashe, Cho'Gath and some more who have a purely passive skill that benefits from hitting (or requires to hit) champions, some are toggles, some are not, but really, there's only few reasons why you should toggle them off. Same's with Sion, I may only toggle Sion's E off when pushing the turret with low life.

His innate is very strange, especially with Riot's recent "no random chance"-policy. It still gives him some tankiness on the long run and is part of his somewhat impressive early game-survivability. Plus, as you're getting muchos HP-os as Sion anyway (especially as AD), even a random damage-reduction of 50 will help you in duels. Sion is pretty much the anti-duelist in a world where dedicated duelists are getting rare.