Sion's Soul Furnace damage should scale with his Own Max HP

Agidyne··2 votes·1,088 views

Soul Furnace: Sion surrounds himself with a shield that absorbs damage for up to 6 seconds. After 2 seconds, Soul Furnace can be recast to detonate the shield if it hasn't been destroyed, dealing magic damage to all nearby enemies. Bonus damage from the target's maximum health is capped at 400 against minions and monsters. The shield will detonate automatically if it persists for the full 6 seconds.

It's really silly, why not make it scale with your own Max HP instead. It not only makes up for his extremely unreliable kit but also gives him an actual reason to build tankier, rather than a detriment if he doesn't.

Don't get me wrong, Sions already nearly go full tank every game, but that's not because of actually getting any benefit out of it. It's because building him in any other way will just make you a burden, waiting to be carried.

Having your shield gain 10 health for each 100 hp you stack is not bad, but is not the best thing ever.

However, allowing you to deal 14% of your own Max HP to everyone around you is actually quite a good bonus on someone who is going to stack health anyway.

This change is just sacrificing a little bit of Sions early game for a slightly stronger late game.

5 Comments

Wayward Sword2 votes

Percent damage based on an enemy's HP is basically Riot's favorite anti-snowball mechanism damage-wise. If you fall behind as Sion it still does decent damage and if you get fed as Sion you don't start destroying people.

Riot would also have to hack some of the damage or shield strength from Soul Furnace if they did change it.

5G8Nri0B542 votes

I'd rather not.

The damage is pretty strong already, but more importantly, it makes him** less **"feast or famine", which is one of the worst design on a MOBA.

Agidyne1 votes

Actually, he will always deal more damage as there are not many champions who stack health anyway.

So, even if there is a 69/0 Vayne on the enemy team and you are 0/777, you will probably still deal more damage that way.

chumbler1 votes

Sion needs an actual reason to build damage, not to be given damage for free, which is the shit they do on every other bruiser and never acknowledge.

Agidyne1 votes

I would build damage on him if his kit wasn't so goddamn unreliable.

That's why I would like for his W to deal damage based on his HP rather than on the enemy HP.

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