Best Sion Build Guide | Runes | Spells | Items in LoL

New season is here and with it, new amazing tank items for the most unbreakable champions at the summoner's rift. And talking about tank champions, let's talk about Sion, that wonderful beast capable of dealing damage to enemies even after death. Let's discover the best Sion runes, Sion's abilities, skill order, summoner spells, build, and much more!

Best Sion Build

If you're looking to play Sion top, deal tons of physical damage, and constantly increase your maximum health, you must have as many tank items as you can. However, Sion's early game can be a little weak in the top lane against almost all champions, but don't worry, focus on farming to get your mythic items to dominate League of Legends games.

Best Sion Runes

If you want to deal physical damage playing Sion top, then you may use the right Sion runes to escalate until the late game and properly carry your team with one of the best tank champions. So, use the following runes inside the resolve tree: Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, and Overgrowth. As a secondary rune set, you may use Inspiration tree with Minion Dematerializer, and Approach Velocity.

Best Rune Path	Resolve	Inspiration
Best Keystone	Grasp of the Undying
Best Slot 1 (Rune)	Demolish	Minion Dematerializer
Best Slot 2 (Rune)	Conditioning	Approach Velocity
Best Slot 3 (Rune)	Overgrowth

Best Sion Rune Shards

On the other hand, choosing the right rune shards for Sion is really important, they will help you to survive during the early game, and reduce magic damage or physical damage from your enemies. Use the following rune shards: +10% attack speed, +9 Adaptive force, and +6 Armor.

Best Rune Shards	Effect
Offense	+10% Attack Speed
Offense	+9 Adaptive Force
Defense	+6 Armor

Best Sion Summoner's Spells

To dominate the top lane with Sion, the best summoner spells are Flash and Teleport. However, so players do not use teleport because Sion's ultimate is really good to get to your desired location so fast. In any case, Teleport will help you to come back faster to the top lane, it's a great resource to destroy enemy towers and probably a must inside the Sion's summoner spells you may use in high ELO.

Best Spells	Icon
Flash
Teleport

Best Sion Abilities Order

No Sion guides will be completed without talking about his best skill order. Even if Sion doesn't not requires high skills to be played, new players can find it difficult at the beginning if they don't catch up the Champion essence. These are the best skill order for Sion's abilities: Decimating Smash (Q), Soul Furnace (W), and Roar of the Slayer (E). Don't forget to level up Sion's ultimate (Unstoppable Onslaught) at levels 6, 11, and 16.

Best Sion items

Sion is probably one of the best tank champions in League of legends currently, and probably a terror for almost all AD Carry enemy champions in the late game. Sion is capable to deal damage to multiple enemies, destroying towers in seconds, and can't be easily countered at the summoner's rift. So, let's discover the best items for Sion.

Best Starter Sion Items

Sion's early game is probably one of the weakest in the game, for that reason consider getting a Doran's Shield and some Health Potions as starting items to survive enemies hit and poke during the laning phase. Once you level up your abilities such as roar of the slayer and decimating smash, and soul furnace, then Sion begins to be an amazing enemy and tank at the summoner's rift!

First Item	Second Item
Doran’s Shield	Health Potion

Best Mid-Game Sion Items

The undead juggernaut improves his win rate in during the mid and late game. So, in the mid-game consider buying the following items: Heartsteel, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. These items will allow you to get a better wave clear and improve your maximum health. Consider that the Heartsteel is capable to deal more damage in the late game.

First Item	Second Item	Third Item
Heartsteel	Sunfire Aegis	Titanic Hydra

Best Final Late Game Sion Items

In the late game is the moment when Sion shines the most and it's capable to be a huge monster at the summoner's rift. So, buy the following items in the late game: Heartsteel, Sunfire Aegis, Titanic Hydra, Hullbreaker, Plated Steelcaps, and Frozen Heart. This will make Sion virtually unkillable, but be careful if there is a Vayne in the enemy team.

First Item	Second Item	Third Item	Fourth Item	Fifth Item	Sixth Item
Heartsteel	Sunfire Aegis	Titanic Hydra	Hullbreaker	Plated Steelcaps	Frozen Heart

Best Champions to pair Sion with

Vi, Wukong, and Jax are the best champions to pair with Sion, they can apply a huge amount of crowd control over enemies which, combined with Sion, can be really annoying and destructive in a team fight. However, be careful, Sion depends on his Q to apply cc over the enemies, so procure don't fail this ability when your jungle is ganking.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Vi	53%
Wukong	51%
Jax	48%

Strongest Champions against Sion

On the other hand, Shen, Illaoi, and Fiora are really powerful against Sion and can bully him so easily during the laning phase and the late game. Among those champions, consider avoiding Fiora more than anything, her true damage, mobility, and parry can be a huge problem for Sion. You may also read our guide about the best Vayne build League of Legends, who is another good counter champion against Sion.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Shen	53%
Illaoi	51%
Fiora	48%

Weakest Champions against Sion

Finally, consider playing Sion against Teemo, Renekton, and Volibear, those champions can't survive Sion's long trades and won't kill Sion easily during the laning phase. Remember, Sion's late game is one of the most powerful in the game if we talk about health escalation, so take advantage of this and bully your enemies once you approach this moment at the rift.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Teemo	53%
Renekton	51%
Volibear	48%

If you're interested in learning more about League of legends builds, then take a look at our guide about the best Dr. Mundo build league of legends, and start dominating the top lane with the best tank champion currently. See you at the summoner's rift!