So i just won a game without an ADC/Marksmen on my team & tips for Riot for more viable botlaners

You see i got autofilled into the botlane

But i did not want to play one of those ADC champs, i don't like them i refuse to play them !!

I wanted to play that game, big surprise right?, But i got autofilled botlane So what did i do? I picked Sion anyway.

Thnx bro for sticking with me :D shout out to you!!

To my surprise, and everyone else's it worked

it was a bit tough in lane, i was facing very annoying with the spellshield and the movement boosts and shield spam It was ok tho we managed to burn their and 3x on the lulu

After which things were manageable with double

Asshole that i was i rushed knowing i could kill either with base damage anyway, it helped me towerdive them very easily Tons of cc with Leo and Sion made things go smoothly for as far as it could since niether of us knew each other so the synergy wasn't on point although we both played hilariously aggressive so there was some synergy there

We ended up winning that game

Anyway to get to the point of this thread, You do not always need a Marksmen Riot wants other folks down botlane i like playing tanky champs so ill focus on that for some idea's on how they could go botlane.

What helped though was a lot of cc so you can actually keep them stuck once you engage But for laning specifically You need waveclear and sustain and a way to poke back The E spam was so harsh lol, waveclear + poke in 1

In my case we caught out lulu at level 1 and made them burn most of their summoners and all her potions which forced them to be careful for most of the early levels the double targons helped mitigate their poke a lot and we would just look to dive,

Riot is looking for ways to make other champions viable in botlane and Sion is definitely one of them

Something to help with both mana and health sustain would be nice but relic shield is just too good in those situations because it helps your sup get a lot of gold too

In case specifically one thing which would help him out is a change to W passive if it worked more like overgrowth it would help make up for the loss of minions and it would help with your support sharing gold through relic shield And you would not lose out on so much health stacks which would help a lot in making his botlane more successful Q damage reduction vs minions/monsters scaling down with levels/ranks it's good enough early to pressure but some levels in it gets awkward it would help a lot if Sions ability to farm was less gimped.

Demolish already helped a lot as it gave me the opportunity to take down turrets faster My siege wasn't great but i could dive hard force my enemies away or kill them if they would stick to turret and take it quickly with demolish This does help when not relying on sieging power

Something else which would be awesome is to have a way to mitigate continuous poke damage I have an idea for that, and it's a rune It can replace the font of life rune in the resolve tree

let's call it feel no pain Take 10 + 1,5% bonus health less damage for single target damage sources

Something like this would help a lot in dealing with the endless harass from ranged champions especially early on but it also has a bit of scaling so it won't be completely pointless later on, it would help gain more bulk scaling with health so less pure defensive items are needed to make you successful

Useful for beefy bois who want to try out fighting in botlane without having to rely on some stupid level 1 cheese attack, although you would have to give up demolish to get it.

Another starting item as well to support the more tanky friend in the botlane

Dorans gambeson

100 health Unique: take up to 10 less damage from basic attacks depending on range ( melee range gives no protection, 550 range gives max protection) Unique: killing a minion restores 4 mana and 2 health

Anyway those are my idea's to help out tanks and juggernauts in the botlane

[galio-happy] ( using this since there is no sticker, RITO I DEMAND SION STICKERS !!!! )