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 | 
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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 |
53% |  | |
51% |  | |
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 |
53% |  | |
51% |  | |
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 |
53% |  | |
51% |  | |
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!
