Sion Tops Damage Meter While Building Full Tank?

fi9KvpCZOp·8/23/2015, 1:33:24 PM·2 votes·1,404 views

http://i.imgur.com/1vcc4qc.jpg

I would really like someone to just help me better understand how it is possible that a tank can out damage everybody on the map. Maybe you could just point me to some online resources that shows me how each champion scales per level and what their bases damages are.

I'm not really understanding why Riot felt they needed to remake Sion into one of the best scaling tanks in the game, overload his kit with two slows, two stuns, a shield, a long range poke, a resurrection, one of the quickest speed boosts in the game and then go ahead and have him out damage a champion such as Akali in lane... a champion who ONLY does damage...

Nothing about that is balanced..

P.S. Is it just me or does every single champ that Riot pumps out these days have a massively overloaded kit?

7 Comments

BattleOxe8/23/2015, 1:44:33 PM4 votes

well, sion has a lot of AOE DMG so it's possible to be top damage dealer as DMG done to minions and monsters counts too. But titanic hidra is really strong item for him

JJI7448/23/2015, 1:54:38 PM3 votes

Well, I can tell you what happened in this match. Whoever laned against Sion either brawled it out with him a lot (and lost) or let Sion pop his W on them over and over again. Then the game ended rather abruptly, before the damage dealers really came online.

Doesn't hurt that sunfire (along with thornmail) tends to cause a champions damage to be somewhat inflated with nuisance damage.

BTW: I think you will find Akali does much more damage than Sion when she has not fed 11 kills in 26 minutes. You probably spent about 1/6th of the game time doing zero damage due to being dead, add to that the time required to get back to lane (8 of said deths happened around the mid-way mark of toplane) and you have a lot of downtime.

53436278DEL18/23/2015, 1:57:24 PM2 votes

assassin meta is out boys stop playing shitkali and expecting to win

Jbels8/23/2015, 2:27:55 PM1 votes

lol you look really angry in that picture

TheDevice8/23/2015, 2:28:36 PM1 votes

Yeah you show zero details. Maybe he just bossed your entire team? Maybe you're just upset you lost?

A good sion who lands his ult at full range (not that easy in many situations) will do a crap ton of damage. Depending if he hit more than one person like the above stated, his total damage output would be significant. Titanic Hydra to boot and he's dealing plenty of damage.

But its not different from say Nasus who will need lots of time and lots of farm/itemization to reach a point where his damage becomes insane. Plus I think Nasus is better at it lol. It depends on the situation of course. For nasus its much easier to land those Q's one people while sion has to land all his cc (all skillshots) to be able to get in melee range.

Anyways. No details here. I mean im sure there is a game once upon a time where sona, soraka, (any champion really) dealt massive damage in a game. This tells us nothing.

Critmaster Garen8/23/2015, 2:42:11 PM1 votes

sion deals a lot of aoe damage with his shield explosion, his q and his ult. it all adds up.

The HeraId8/23/2015, 2:48:09 PM1 votes

Because Akali won't deal damage to a sion, and sions damage is almost all AoE, added he has a stun, two slows, and a knock up, and his movement speed buff can not be controlled at all very well, and his shield does % Max health damage when he blows it up....His base damages are pretty crap on anything but his Q as well.