Small Buff to Sion Passive

MadDoughnutz·8/10/2015, 4:17:10 PM·2 votes·529 views

Just came to my mind out of the blue watching old videos, but I thought I'd share it because why not.

Basically, reduce the CD of 'Death Surge' in his passive state to 6-7 seconds, and make every successful auto he lands reduce it's CD by 1 second. That way, if people don't respect the 'Sion just died' he can still cling to targets and be rewarded for attacking them with potential extra movespeed and make him less ignorable during his passive. But if he get's CC'd during it or enemies make the effort to move away from his area of death(effective zoning), he doesn't get any benefit from it, thus giving meaningful counterplay to it through positioning or using a CC cooldown on an already dead target.

Thoughts?

3 Comments

kJs8/10/2015, 4:45:48 PM2 votes

You've got to keep in mind that Sion is in a really good place right now, balance wise. He's useful for Peeling, zoning and tanking every ability imaginable and is really really disruptive in teamfights. With bonus 20% armor reduction on anyone he shouts at, helping his ADC and AD Assassins incredibly. He does eventually get to the point of next to unkillable in teamfights if you don't stuff up horribly.

When he does need a buff then maybe they could give his passive a buff but it would truly be counter intuitive given that you'd have to be dead to make use of it.

I was thinking months back, to allow him to cast Death Surge multiple times. Meaning, unlike Zyra's passive Sion's Death Surges won't be sharing a global cooldown. It shouldn't stack either. Given that many champions already have dashes and mobility to outrun and create distance. Ancient Coin, Righteous Glory, Sivir ultimate etc. This will let him resurge whenever the Vayne pins him to the wall or the Karma snares him. He can cast Death Surge when CCed but it won't affect the CC, meaning if the Sion player isn't careful he could potential waste all 4 Death Surges trying to get the 1-10% healthed Kog'Maw who expertly laid down Void Ooze to stop him or waste all four trying to get a Morgana who snared him for 400 years.