Why does Sion passive get weaker as he levels?

CleverCactus·Nov 11, 2017·7 votes·663 views

Mathematically, a Sion's passive gets worse as time goes on, because of the way health decrease scales quickly with levels. A Sion with 6 Warmogs at level 18 will last ~10 seconds in his passive, whereas a Sion with 6 Warmogs at level 1 will last ~25 seconds (without taking damage or auto attacking anything). (It also lasts longer with no items at all)

This means the level 18 Sion's passive is almost objectively worse, since the thing that damages you most is your own passive decay, and the majority of your damage in passive comes from the 10% max HP damage.

I don't understand why he is designed this way, since the infinite scaling of HP on his W implies Sion was supposed to scale with game length, like Veigar. Anyone have a good theory on why this is?

4 Comments

Rick YiordanNov 11, 20175 votes

because they dont want lategame dead sion to be more useful than lategame alive sion

SnakDatSmilesBakNov 11, 20171 votes

Thematically that'd be awesome

Meep ManNov 11, 20171 votes

Because you won't have 6 Warmog's at Level 1, which they took into account. It lasts about 6-10 seconds at most levels from when I play Sion.

CleverCactusNov 11, 20171 votes

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Because you won't have 6 Warmog's at Level 1, which they took into account. It lasts about 6-10 seconds at most levels from when I play Sion.

It lasts longer at level 1 with no items than it does at level 18 with no items. The 6 warmogs was just to illustrate the point of having lategame health, the level 18 passive is always weaker.