RIP Sion

101100111000·4/29/2015, 11:46:41 PM·8 votes·967 views

"[...] Soul Furnace's offensive capability often seals a winning lane for him once he's able to build enough Health, creating a situation for opponents where beefing up makes the shield's damage more effective (as it scales off an enemy's maximum health), while building more damage to pop Soul Furnace opens them up to being crushed by a Decimating Smash."

SHIELD DETONATION TIMER 2 seconds ⇒ 3 seconds RATIO 10% maximum health ⇒ 6/7/8/9/10% maximum health

So your early game nerf is the shield is basically half as strong and takes an extra second to detonate, instead of nerfing its damage to effectively limit his offensive potential while still leaving its defensive utility early game intact.

Have fun clearing your camps without the W damage guys.

19 Comments

Crett4/29/2015, 11:49:47 PM3 votes

The camp clear is not going to be affected at all. I alway whip out the shield a bit early when I start clearing a camp anyways

Borfin4/30/2015, 2:23:10 AM2 votes

Not as big a nerf as you're crying about. It's 40% nerf to the ratio, so you'll lose maybe 8-10 health off your shield at rank 1 if you run HP runes. And the change to the detonation time means fuckall for Jungle Sion. Sion already pretty much first clears with 0 damage taken anyway.

Laning will be a bitch though

Entheos Geon4/30/2015, 5:14:09 AM2 votes

While this is a nerf to Sion all around, it's way more of a hit to his laning than his jungling. I've played a few games with him already and timing the shield really isn't all that difficult when you can stun a whole camp for nearly 2 seconds and stun the large jungle creatures for an additional second with your shout on top of that.

Yimmortal4/29/2015, 11:50:24 PM2 votes

Looks like you gotta charge up your shield up and blow it up now before you start attacking because that shit wont even block 1 auto from jungle monsters at lv 1

The Bíg Ticket4/30/2015, 8:06:22 AM2 votes

Because he wasn't autowinning ever lane?

Lhostalis4/30/2015, 1:00:19 AM1 votes

It still doesn't change the fact that Riot just shoved JarvanIV 's spear so goddamn far up Sion rectum that it knocked Jarvan I's crown from his lower jaw. I can't wait to see Maokai back on top of the tank totem pole. Its about time Sion 's super tank nature got hit a little, Or in the case of these nerfs hit in the testicles with the nerf bat, after it was hollowed and filled with cement....

ULTRA RAMOOSE4/30/2015, 7:15:32 AM1 votes

Rito didn't nerf him enough, he needs more beating from the nerf bat.

TotalJerk4/30/2015, 9:07:09 PM1 votes

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creating a situation for opponents where beefing up makes the shield's damage more effective (as it scales off an enemy's maximum health)

Isn't that the whole point of putting % max health damage on anything in the first place?

ModAcademy Kayn4/29/2015, 11:50:50 PM1 votes

Wasn't the 10% of Max health their opponents max health? Not the shield? Or am I getting something wrong.

Centuros4/29/2015, 11:50:55 PM1 votes

I would have thought they would have nerfed the damage ratio based on the target's health according to the reason they gave, but I guess not...

SIayton4/29/2015, 11:50:43 PM1 votes

I think he's better in the jungle now than top lane. They really overdid it with the increase in time before he can detonate it, because now its easy to pop AND he has trouble keeping it up long enough to pop it.

If you run HP and armor in the jungle though, the level 1 shield is enough to block 1 round of jungle creep attacks and then detonate, so he's largely unaffected by the change in the jungle. I'm just maxing shield second instead of E to get the full 10% back, and his damage potential is actually better this way too.

In lane though, yeah, fuck that. He has to max E first in lane so you're left with the choice of maxing W second and having your Q do no damage or maxing your Q second and having a worthless shield to pops if you look at it wrong. They went too far IMO, should have just nerfed the damage or kept the 10% and increased the minimum detonation time.

Fadedpf4/30/2015, 12:14:03 AM1 votes

They should have left the detonation time alone.