Talk:Sion/@comment-4372473-20140404115754/@comment-20434720-20140411230717

With proper farming he can reach 500 bonus HP 15 mins into the game pretty consistently. And it benefits him a lot. As far as surviving laning phase goes, at least in the ~18 games I've played as him, it's hit and miss, but usually you can do just fine.

How you can say Sion is in no way useful is a mystery to me. Large AOE heals to his team, a point-click-reliable elise-cocoon-with-high-base-damage, the capability to last longer in the front line than almost any other tank in the game (we're not including full tank fiddlesticks who never gets interrupted, i'm assuming).

He does more for his team in almost all cases than someone like Shyvana, who is currently very popular. Can shyvana heal her entire team (your team is low but got an ace and wants to do baron. Shyvana won't heal herself and her entire team back to full off it)? No. Can shyvana have 4,000 health, 200 armor and crit for 800 damage consistently with penetration or do damage on that kind of scale? No. Can Shyvana stun an assassin diving onto her ADC? No.

Frankly the weakest part of AD Sion's kit is his shield. Fix that to do something and Sion is plenty strong. He has strong damage (Q and W have high bases, a 65 AD steroid with infinite uptime), strong survivability (100% lifesteal), and brings strong utility to his team via his stun and AOE healing.