Talk:Sion/@comment-8228047-20130520021021/@comment-8506165-20130807232137

Going full melee glass cannon carry is stupid.

1) You have very low mobility. The closest thing you have to an escape is slamming up your 0AP shield and hoping you can walk back to your turret fast enough after your stun wore off on them.

2) Your role as AD in teamfights is to stand at the front and be a damage sponge while stealing life back from the enemy and healing your teammates with it. All right, you can do that as a glass-cannon, until you get hit by one decent bit of CC (on a related note, kiting -still- says hi) or until the enemy Zed/Talon/Kha'Zix takes a personal interest in you and bursts through your whole lifebar before you get a chance to steal it back.

Decent offensive items with a Frozen Heart and Spirit Visage (bonus: 40% CDR!) or even Frozen Heart and Mercurial Scimitar will make you almost as much of a menace while not turning into chunky salsa the second an assassin decides you're getting too dangerous. Believe me, unless the game's gone on ridiculously long and you've farmed insane amounts of health, Kha'Zix does not give a damn about your 300 bonus health if you've no armor beyond your Atma's. The more resists you have, the more effective your bonus health from E is, the longer you can stay dishing out damage even against the dangerous assassins and CC machines that Sion so hates.

At the very least, get a damn Guardian Angel. It's more effective on Sion as a sole defensive item because he benefits more from resists than most.