
[7.16] "Night of the Living Dead" in Botlane

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Items Back to Top
Starting Items
Core Items
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Probably the best item for Sion Gives everything - hp, armor, mana, cdr and even awesome active. I usually take it first - there is nothing better than sudden mv speed burst in your zombie form. Together with aoe slow after getting close to enemy it let you to change the tides of fight after you die in some stupid way ;)
Situational Items
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My favourite full build. Together with runes that gives you cdr you will have around 4k HP, 260 armor, 150 mres and 40% cdr. Late game you can exchange Eye of Equinox and Mercury's Treads for Ruby Sightstone and Ionian Boots of Lucidity - It gives you more utility in exchange for some mres and shield that gives you 10% of your hp... For me it's still worth it in late game ;)
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True support build. Take it ONLY if you are playing together with someone that can carry you. You have tons of hp and utility but your resists are a joke. I don't really reccomend it for solo q ;) You can also leave 1 place for red ward but i won't tell you which item you should leave because all of them are important for me ;)
Matchups Back to Top
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AlistarMedium
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AnnieEasy
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AsheEasy
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BlitzcrankMedium
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BraumHard
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CaitlynHard
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CorkiMedium
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DravenEasy
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EzrealEasy
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JannaMedium
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KalistaHard
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KarmaEasy
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KayleEasy
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Kog'MawMedium
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LeBlancEasy
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LeonaMedium
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LissandraEasy
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LucianMedium
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LuluMedium
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LuxEasy
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MalphiteMedium
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MaokaiMedium
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Miss FortuneEasy
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MorganaMedium
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NamiMedium
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NasusMedium
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NautilusMedium
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NidaleeMedium
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NunuHard
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QuinnEasy
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RengarMedium
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SionHard
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SivirEasy
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SonaEasy
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SorakaEasy
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SyndraEasy
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TaricMedium
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ThreshMedium
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TristanaMedium
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TwitchEasy
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UrgotMedium
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VarusEasy
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VayneHard
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Vel'KozEasy
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XerathEasy
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ZileanEasy
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ZyraEasy
VS

Alistar
Medium
You are poking and he have strong heal. Believe me - fighting again him will be pain in the ass for you. You can take first against him - he won't be able to focus your adc too much with your cc so in most situation you will die before your adc and this item is best to make greatest use of your deaths ;)
VS

Annie
Easy
Poke her. Poke her again. After 6 kill her. She is just too squishy. If she will try to force all in on your adc use exhaust on her to lower her dmg and go for her. She will easily die. Try to rush aginst her. It will give you hp, armor, cdr and make your adc less squishy. Her abilities don't have too big aoe so for me it's much better than
in this composition. Just don't stay too close too your adc and it will be good ;) If she is focusing you you can rush
but it's not too strong against early Annie - she just need to start focusing your adc and you are fucked ;)
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Ashe
Easy
She doesn't have any mobility so you can easily poke her and after 6 hit her with your ult. On 1st lvl when you are coming into your lane beware of bushes. Try to stand between them and your adc so he would be hit only by her crit and not by her W. In your lane she is scarriest lvl 1st. After 6th lvl look out for her ults. If it is going to hit your adc you can use your ult to stop her. Easy lane.
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Blitzcrank
Medium



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Braum
Hard
I've played against good Braum in some games and I can tell you that I underestimated his hardness. Good Braum is tanky and have quick reaction. When you want to go all in he will stop you with his and
. He will stop half of your
with his
. To tell you the truth the only way to win against him is good help from your jungle. Try rushing
- it will give you power to somehow survive his all ins and to protect your adc.
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Caitlyn
Hard
She will poke you hard early. She will make your life miserable. Most of your poking depends on throwing minion into your enemy but what you can do if your enemy is between your minions and you? To have any chances with her you need to have veeeerryyy goooood adc and help from your jungler. Still if she isn't that good then you can poke her quite hard. Rush - in this lane survivability is the most important.
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Corki
Medium
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Draven
Easy
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Ezreal
Easy
Very squishy champ. His play style depends on his poke but you will see that your poke is stronger. You probably won't get kill because of his double flash but you will easily force him off lane. As for first item both and
are viable depending how good is he and how bad are you ;) if you die a lot then take
and if not take
.
VS

Janna
Medium
Good Janna will easily prevent your poke with her shield. But she will have her mana run down very quickly and then your game began. Poke her to death and charge her (or her adc). She will die very quickly.
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Kalista
Hard
Good Kalista will avoid your every E so focus on her supp. If she is bad just poke her to death.
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Karma
Easy
If your adc is good and can avoid most of her q it's very easy lane. She is very squishy and mana hungry so if she want to protect herself with her shield she will be very quickly out of mana. But remember that until 3rd lvl she have much bigger poke than you and if you let her she will chase you out of lane. I reccomend 4 pots in this lane.
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Kayle
Easy
Theoretically she have bigger dmg than you and have heal. Unfortunately for her to do this dmg she must stick to you and attack with her aa. And believe me your slows are too strong for her to do that. Also she is very squishy and her heal is very weak - all of this make her useless against you.
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Kog'Maw
Medium
Easy to poke and charge but he deal percent of your hp on hit and you are champ that build hp.
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LeBlanc
Easy
It will be hard to poke her until she will attack you but after she will burn out her w she will be very vulnerable. Just don't let her oneshot your adc. If she will be able to do that you lost this game. And it also mean that it's time to report your adc.
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Leona
Medium
Early game is yours thanks to your e and you will probably force her (or her adc) out of your lane before 6 lvl. You are poking quite hard but believe me that after 6 all in is her. She have just to big dmg and cc. But if you have good adc that will use his escape skill when she is using her e just use your own e on her and she will have 20% less armor. Believe me it will make her cry. I gave it medium because this lane depends mostly on your adc not you.
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Lissandra
Easy
Her poke is almost as strong as yours just with much shorter range. She is very squishy and you can easily destroy her but problems start after 6. She have much stronger cc than you so i reccomend for your adc to take cleanse and for you to take heal. With these summoners you will win most of the fights (until she will get some really good ap items).
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Lucian
Medium
I hate this bastard. His have nice escape mechanism with low mana cost and he have very big dmg. You also don't have any hard cc working immediately that could stop his ult other than your ult and he can easily escape from it with his dash. This lane depends on skill - if you will be able to land most your e you will win. If not you will probably lose (until he have some squishy supp that is much easier to poke).
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Lulu
Medium
Her poke is just as strong as yours and she have nice shield to stop your poke. Skill matchup.
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Lux
Easy
Squishy champ with low movement speed. Very mana hungry. You can easily outpoke her and force her out of lane.
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Malphite
Medium
He doesn't have any real dmg before 6 and after 6 he can win only with all in. Your poke will decide who will win this lane (and believe me - it will be you). The only problem is in late game - if you won't win lane his cc is much better in teamfight than yours.
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Maokai
Medium
Annoying poke, good cc and awesome survivability. Also very strong all in. Poke his adc or you will most likely lose it. He is very mana hungry so you can poke much more than he can and it will probably decide who will win in your lane.
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Miss Fortune
Easy
You have good poke and nice slows while she haven't any escape mechanism other than flash. She is using her ult? Good, you can charge her and kill her.
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Morgana
Medium
Good Morgana can change your lane into hell. You used e? Good, she just stopped it with her shield. You can win this only thanks to her very long shield cd. You can use your ult twice while she will have only 1 shield. Skill dependant lane.
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Nami
Medium
I hate her heals. Earlier I thought that this is easy lane because she will be easily out of mana but I was wrong. I played against good Nami with good runes and masteries and I can say that I was wrong. She hadn't an mana issues in whole game. You have still better all in after 4th lvl but before that you will cry.
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Nasus
Medium
I know what you want to say. WTF??? NASUS SUPP? I would also want to say this but I can't. I saw it and he was very viable supp thanks to his w and e. Especially with adc cait. His e can lower your armor by whole 20 on first lvl and 40 on 5th! And his w make your adc unable to run from gank! His only minuses are his lack of hard cc and his mana hunger. He is also bad to focus because of his tankiness and when you will focus his adc and force him out of lane he will be just stacking his q. I just hate this champ.
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Nautilus
Medium
This cc master can make your life annoying. Difficulty of this lane depends on his support item. If he will take relic he will be medium and when he will take anything other he will be easy.
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Nidalee
Medium
Very hard to poke thanks to her passive (bonus mv speed in bushes) and have nice heal. Her only problems are her squishiness and mana hunger. Look out for her spears and traps - when you will be hit by one of them she will have much bigger damage in her cat form. Easy to force her out of lane.
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Nunu
Hard
He gives mv speed bonus for both him nad his adc that will make them hard to poke with your e. He have good poke with his e and survivability with his q. In teamfight he will force you to use your ult on him to stop his ult. You can't do much against him so focus his adc and if you will be good enough you will win.
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Quinn
Easy
Easy to poke easy to land your ult while she is trying to all in you. Just easy to kill.
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Rengar
Medium
Rengar "supp" is full ad and he will try to force all in in early lvls. To win your adc must stay far away from bushes and you will easily force him out of lane. This lane depends entirely on your adc. If he won't let Rengar to jump on him from bushes you will easily win. If not you will lose.
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Sion
Hard
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Sivir
Easy
She is very easy to poke but she can stop half of your e with her shield. With good morg as supp she can be hard for because they will stop all of your e. With other supp she is just too squishy for you.
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Sona
Easy
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Soraka
Easy
If you will focus her she will be very easy. She can't heal herself now so you can easily poke her out of lane or kill her.
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Syndra
Easy
Really Syndra? Why someone would choose her for supp? Just poke her and kill her.
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Taric
Medium
Your e will be useless against him because of his heal but your cc will make him unable to get closer to your adc. This lane depends on ganks.
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Thresh
Medium
Skill dependant. His first 2 lvls are stronger but from 3rd lvl you can make him pay very hard when he will try to poke you or your adc. But remember that even when you are stronger he can win if he will land few of his q.
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Tristana
Medium
Easy to poke but hard to kill. She can disengage with her ult or run with jump. Thankfully she can't shoot you away with her ult when you are in your ult so you can annoy her very hard.
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Twitch
Easy
You can poke him very easily. He don't have any real escape mechanism other than flash so if you will have pink ward in inventory you can easily all in him.
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Urgot
Medium
I don't like this bastard. He have some nice tankiness and annoying ult. When you will se him using his ult charge him (or place where is your adc now) to give him the biggest damage and cc you can. With good cooperation with your adc you will win.
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Varus
Easy
Easy to poke and your ult make his ult useless.
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Vayne
Hard
Very short cd on her tumble make it very hard to land your e. Also she is one of the few champs that are going in early life steal what make your poke much weaker. You are also one of champs that are building mainly hp and her percentage true damage make you ideal target for her to kill.
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Vel'Koz
Easy
Poke him. He is too squishy to do good in lane agaist you.
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Xerath
Easy
Very unorthodox support. Early game is his thanks to his big damage and range but after 6th he is yours. His difficulty depends on adcs - if you have adc with bad early while he has adc with good early he's medium to hard champ. In other situations he is easy.
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Zilean
Easy
Poke, poke and once again poke. Make use of his squishiness and you will win.
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Zyra
Easy
Just poke her to death. She wants to poke you with her plants? Knock them back to her with your E. It will dmg her not you ;) (I mean that you will give her dmg from your E not that they will attack her). After 6 you can easily kill her with your ult (but not alone - your adc need to help you ;) )
About me Back to Top
I started playing LoL in end of season 2. Currently I'm platin 2 player from EUNE. I'm maining top and supp champions like Malphite, Nasus, Leona or Zyra. Sion is my newest main champ in both of lanes. In the beggining i played him only on top lane. However after I found out about strenght of his early lvls e I decided to try him on supp and found out that he is super strong there. To tell you the truth I'm not very good player. I never was. From the beggining I was better in theory than in practice. I was finding good champs and perfect runes for them. That's why I need 10 runes pages while my friend have 2 and is much better than me. I played on supp with many unorthodox champs before they was popular. I played Zyra and Morgana months before they started to be popular. My friends was angry at this and they threatened me that if I won't stop playing with champs like this they'll stop playing with me (it was when I played Morg). Imaginate my anger when 1 month later they told me to play Morgana because she is the strongest supp in game... And they said it because they saw her in stream. That's why I decided that when I'll found another champ that i'll found out viable I'll make build and show it to other players to try. And here it is. Sion supp is coming!
Pros and cons Back to Top

Early game Back to Top
Your early game is quite easy. You are using your on minions to poke enemy champions, your
on slowed enemies to knock them up and your
to protect yourself from some of enemy poke. I must admit that this champion early game is broken - on his 1st lvl
deals amazing damage and his poke with
is so strong that some of my enemies wanted to report me for cheating... Good advice for you - try to using this skill on enemy adc that is going to lasthit some minion. This action make him stop for some time and it will make it easier to land your skill. Thanks to this I usually force enemy adc out of lane around 4th/5th lvl - and without any help from mine adc. But remember - you need many wards because you are very pushing lane. Most of time you will stay under enemy tower and you will need many wards to protect yourselfs from ganks. To see how to place wards as support watch this guide made by Krepo:
Mid game Back to Top
This part of game is actually most tricky part while playing Sion supp. Why? It's easy. You already pushed enemy tower while teamfights didn't even started. If your adc will want to farm more you will be far in enemy teritory. To have any chances of surviving this without kills for enemy you will need many wards in enemy jungle and be ready to back away in any moment. I was caught too many times already by 4 man ganks to underestimate this part of game. Once we even fed so much because of this that we lost game that was practically won... Be ready that sometimes you will need to use your ult to run away.
Late game Back to Top
You are main initiator of your team. You should already have - this will make your initiates very good. When you will see enemy out of position, easy to kill use your ult to catch to him (only when you have teammates that can follow you), and cc him. Thanks to your 30-40% cdr when you will catch someone he won't escape without flash. In teamfights your role is different. Protect your carries. It's the best way for you to help your team. Also surprisingly even as tank you have big damage - your w in late game have quite nice damage - to tell you the truth you will have almost the same damage as top Sion. That's why you will get some of kills in most of the teamfights. If you will do good job in teamfight (it means that at least your adc is alive while whole enemy team is dead) it's time for your victory dance:

My games with Sion supp Back to Top
In my game history I had 8 games with Sion supp so after some play with paint I decided to show them to you ;) I'll be adding more after my games. All of them was against players from gold/patin/diamond and I can tell you that this champ is very good in this lvl ;) I don't know how it will be against players from master/challenger so when someone will play against them please tell me how it went ;) (If you won't see full image just open it in new card). Do you see last 2 lost games with sion supp? Like I said in section below - never take Sion supp against especially when in enemy team is also
or
. I learned it hard way, I hope that you won't make this mistake.


Never take Sion supp against these champions... Back to Top
There are some champs that will make you miserable. You are champion that push very much and your only way to defend your adc are wards. But there are some jungler and midlaners that will make your efforts miserable.




Diving Back to Top
Yes, I said diving. But you know what? I'll say you one thing: NEVER EVER DIVE UNDER THE ENEMY TURRET ALONE!
Synergies with ADC Back to Top
Challenger tier synergy:
She can ult you while your undead(passive is up).. and it stops your passive and she can then throw you... Its an undead flash.
Master tier synergy:
Diamond tier synergy:
Platin tier synergy:
Gold tier synergy:
Silver tier synergy:
Bronze tier synergy:
What's new? Back to Top
If you are playing like that never take Sion again. Back to Top
These are videos that show you how to not play with Sion.