User blog comment:Feantugeiha/Sion Rework Concept/@comment-24825926-20140618115352/@comment-25066097-20140618131400

I wanted to make him viable whilst still keeping the same abilities, to do this I had to fix:

- Mana problems: he has high mana costs but if played right due to the passives of Q/W this is much better but is down to how you play

- Attack speed: buffed his base attack speed and attack speed per level so if you build attack speed items on him they are stronger

- Vulnerability to hard CC: passive of his W helps with this, and as it scales of hp his shield is now much stronger for fighter sion

- Mobility: his passive helps him stick to champs (and new passive to ult), but also his Q can come up quite frequently if you keep auto attacking

I would say he's more like nasus than trynd. He's not going to 2 hit anyone, but he will slowly bludgeon them to death and never die. Lack of damaging abilities isn't too much of an issue as Q and W are still buffs, but as he is auto attack based he would need some steroid like the bonus ad from his E. Plus I kind of like having the most AD at level 1. Will head to your page now.