Talk:Sion/@comment-6000413-20141001131305/@comment-15244341-20141001205840

Because the new Sion is a Tank, not a bruiser, and he scales like a tank. Sure, you get a bunch of AD, an okay amount of armor and a huge waste of crit. Now what? You don't have one of your good armor items since you need slots for MR (FH is awesome to alleviate his mana pool and give him the CDR he so desesperately wants, Sunfire makes his pushing and farming even better and feeds his shield, Randuin's is an item you simply can't skip and Thornmail is pretty much the best second armor item since the Marksmen buffs). You get AD which he scales really poorly with (look at his Q ratio and halve it, since it's way too unreliable to charge it for more than 1 second) and you get crit, which might be okay when he has his passive on but otherwise is a waste.

Maybe I'm wrong and AtMog's (Atma+Warmogs) comes back into fashion. Who knows. But as his skills are now, Sion is a tank with okay base damage and huge zoning against melees in lane and in teamfights. Out of all of the armor items he has at his disposal, Atma's Impaler seems like trying too hard to give damage to a tank while weakening his tankyness.

I'm just very adverse to Atma's Impaler as an item. You probably want to buy it as a tank, but if you are a tank and you buy Atmas, you get squishier, since just 45 armor as defensive stats for a slot is a huge drop in tankyness. You probably will get more use of Thornmail, since it wrecks Marksmen when your champion is really tanky (4000 health Cho with Thornmail is fun times).