Sion's Q does not do the damage it should

babydead·7/18/2015, 10:09:02 AM·37 votes·7,286 views

When you fully charge Sion's Q, it doesn't seem to do the damage it should. I thought I'd build the damage to clear minion waves in 1 q. It said that at max charge, it would do 300 + 395 damage. This, according to my calculation, would be 695 damage without any extra's and such. Ranged minions had 500 hp, 0 armor, 0 magic resistance. Yet, my fully charged Decimating Smash did only 407 damage.

Now, I realise that his Q only does 80% damage on minions. However, 695 * 0.8 = 556. The minions still should have died.

I'm not being extremely stupid somehow, am I?

28 Comments

RiotRiot Scruffy7/18/2015, 9:04:01 PM23 votes

Unfortunately this is a tooltip bug. I'll double check next week and make sure that the intended numbers are working but my hunch is that 60% is the real number that he is balanced around.

Kolinichu7/18/2015, 3:34:30 PM3 votes

So, perhaps, I am no crazy... I personally thought Sion's Q was not doing enough damage the last time I played him. I thought I had wrong runes... but I didn't...

I Main Swain7/18/2015, 4:15:29 PM1 votes

do they still have the bug on him where if you're standing at the bottom of the steps up into an enemy base and q at the base, the steps will hide the q?

Jungle Lux God7/18/2015, 4:50:07 PM1 votes

Is the in-game tooltip saying that Decimating Smash deals 80% damage to minions?

The good news is that Decimating Smash actually deals 60% reduced damage to minions.

The bad news is that Decimating Smash might actually still be bugged. 695 * .6 = 417, so you are still getting cheated out of some damage.

junglerboy167/18/2015, 6:10:08 PM1 votes

My guess is that it is likely a bug, and it could be any of several things, like the AD ratio being incorrect, the damage reduction against minions being incorrect, or possibly the base damage being off. You'd have to test it more thoroughly, like checking the damage against champions, checking the damage against minions with no bonus AD, checking the damage with armor pen, etc.

Araleron7/18/2015, 6:15:13 PM1 votes

if you look on leagues website at sion's abilities it does in fact do 60% damage to minions.

Decimating Smash Cost: 45 Mana Range: 10000 Sion charges a powerful swing in an area in front of himself that will deal damage to enemies when released. If he charges for enough time, enemies hit by the swing will also be knocked up and stunned. Sion charges up a heavy blow for up to 2 seconds. When released, he deals 20/40/60/80/100 (+60% Attack Damage) to 60/120/180/240/300 (+180% Attack Damage) physical damage to enemies in the area (60% damage to minions). Enemies hit are briefly slowed.If Sion charges for at least 1 second, enemies are knocked up and stunned for 1.25 to 2.25 seconds.

source: http://gameinfo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/game-info/champions/sion/#champion-lore

babydead8/23/2015, 6:36:43 PM1 votes

omg... I posted this on na? Why am I even on na? I'm on EUW lol. Bye XD

Delimon0077/18/2015, 3:36:30 PM1 votes

I kinda found this out when I went full AD sion that my Q was not doing the damage it was supposed to so I stopped playing him especially as an AD bruiser.