Runes Reforged: awesome options for Sion

has some good picks in the new runes

The Resolve path has some obviously good options for him Grasp being the obvious one: scaling with health and increasing it

And iron skin or it's counterpart has good synergy with it, that being said it requires 20 heals, you can achieve that by building enough hp regen for a permanent boost if you want too

Needless to say you are always going to want to take overgrowth for very very obvious reasons as it gives a %hp boost

But let's llok at some interesting options in other tree's

Domination From the domination tree, predator is just the thing you need for your passive, fat boost & bonus damage on demand if you ever die Perfect keystone the only one you would ever want from this tree, it has 2 main uses You die they die Or you can use it for engage

Other great options are eyeball collection to gain infinite scaling damage, goes well with your keystone + passive

Cheap shot and taste of blood are good, bonus damage after cc is just the thing you need since you got piles of cc but healing on abilities is great too And ravenous hunter also gives additional healing on abilities so that's great of coarse But ingenious hunter can be very good as well as you can combine it predator keystone or other item actives which can help you including stuff to pimp your passive for them sweet revenge kills

Precision None of the keystones are really good, though you could go for press the attack as it can give a lot of damage, you have the cc to keep targets locked up and you can combine it with frozen mallet for your passive though domination and resolve have better keystones So you will probably only ever want to take this path as a secondary

That being said, over heal is really good And you have the option for permanent tenacity or lifesteal/attackspeed but tenacity is probably the better choice as it is great to negate cc and makes your passive stronger as well The rest aren't really useful for sion either So you would probably only take over heal and the permanent tenacity options only since these are pretty good

Sorcery Has some great keystones too comet is just great for amplifying your damage kind of like TLD is now, it just works well though other options like grasp scale much better But phase rush is great, it's kind of like stormraiders which i sometimes grab for sion, it helps make easy trades in lane and is awesome for your passive

The ultimate hat, that one is really good since it will eventually turn your R into a basic ability as far as cooldown is concerned transcendence is great if you want this or that item and you end up with more cdr then you know what to do with

A more interesting option perhaps is celerity as it gives ad based on movement (ban hecarim pls) but hecarim isn't the only fast champion around CHOO FUCKING CHOO MOTHERFUCKERS ALL ABOARD THE PAIN TRAIN CHOOO Whether it will work with ultimate will have to be seen but if it does holy hell you get to like near 1k movement with it So pair it with ultimate hat for funniest results, also do pair with predator build righteous glory and make your passive complete bullshit righteous and glorious Time to run bitches over

Gathering storm deserves a honorable mention, you are already a scaling champion anything that adds to that is obviously a good thing that being said the other options are infinitely more interesting :P

Inspiration Glacial augment is pretty good in general and can help passive, but will also make setting up ultimate's by shooting E more easy Though i aint gonna lie, predator and grasp are more appealing to me so far.

Thought there are some interesting runes to pick Magical footwear, free boots with bonus speed is simply great Minion dematerializer will help you farm up your hp, and eh, screw zyra ^^ Cosmic insight is decent But approach velocity has to be the most interesting one if it works with slows you can build frozen mallet and stick really well otherwise it will still be good since you have a lot of cc yourself

Conclusion

For the main path i would almost certainly choose domination or resolve as they have many good runes anyway but their keystones are simply the ones that synergize best

You can then combine this with one of the others most likely this will be resolve or sorcery or domination

For the most tanky approach you will want to pick a combination of resolve + domination or precision

For the funniest approach

Domination with predator keystone, eyeball & cheapshot with optional ingenious hunter but ravenous might be better And Sorcery with ultimate hat and celerity

Go in with super nuclear ultimate's don't worry about the non existent cool down And watch as people run in terror because getting hit isn't an option, you will likely just oneshot squishies with it anyway if not you also pop your w and it's done And if they ever have the audacity to kill you they are royally fucked as you only need a righteous glory to completely *&^% them to pieces

Or in short you can just spam the shit out of your nuclear oneshotting ultimate and make people bang their head against the wall for killing you

Well that was my analysis of good rune options for my man

Ill let you guys know the best ones after this shit actually hits live so i can test it ** Edit**

i need to do more research, i just came to the conclusion that predator isn't as good as it looked you need to channel for 3 seconds :(

well i guess i could go for aftershock instead and just keep piling on top of the R power and just go for 1 shots on squishies that way then ill have to rely on righteous glory or something for passive to be annoying