How to deal with the Tank Meta 2.0

Yes, HOW DARE THEY! How dare they nerf a hypertank that does more damage than Pantheon late game while building straight tank! IT'S THE LCSBIGPLAYS! THE LCS BIG PLAYS I TELL YOU!!!1!

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Lol you actually think they want successful lane tanks? Mundo, maokai, shen, singed, sion, they're just another one lined up to be nerfed because passively farming and waiting for ganks isn't engaging. Sion only does as much damage as pantheon If he is behind, sion only does that kind of damage if people stand in his q like bots. Anyone with a brainstem can dodge it, easily.

I agree, the attention Riot has given him is completely misplaced. The balance team makes changes that are so healthy for this game and then they do this shit that's just completely uncalled for. If there was a Sion that got too "big", it's because the enemy team didn't deal with him correctly and they let him spiral out of control. He is not unique in this way, many other champions have a specific way you must counter them to keep them from becoming too strong.

The fact is that the LoL community hasn't seen Sion very much until recently, he just burst onto the scene and instead of taking stock of his strengths and weaknesses, they all cry OP and QQ on the forums. The balance team forgets what makes Sion balanced because all they hear is nonesense and they don't stick to their guns. Just look at that comment on the 5.6 Patch Notes about Nidalee. They felt like they had to specifically cater to the crowd of Nidalee haters on these forums because they don't have the wherewithal to do what is necessary despite what others think.

Don't know about you, but I 1v2'd a Nidalee and LeBlanc as Sion at level 4, so you've obviously played against some pretty bad Sions.

Shaco is meant to be an early game champion, so it makes sense that he starts out with higher health than Sion, and the only reason his health scales higher is because Sion has a passive health scaling on unit kill, which as we have learned from Thresh is a pretty big deal despite the scaling penalties that come with it. So by the time that I back for the first time, I'm already ahead of Shaco in passive health. Once cinderhulk is built, I'm the tankiest character in the game.

Sion's biggest weakness is his early game. You need hella good positioning to gank a lane. He can survive in the jungle extremely well despite the nerfs, so you're pretty much power farming until you hit 6 and start ganking from the tower. After that, Sion becomes an unstoppable monster if you haven't starved him of farm by counter jungling or shutting him down. It will take about 10 seconds and all 5 of your team to take down Sion, and that's implying he doesn't knock all of you up or ult to get away.

I am not saying Sion is OP, but I am going to say that you sound like the textbook old Sion whiners that you can't just point and click to blow somebody up with full AP Sion anymore.

I legitimately think people just cant 'handle sion' cause he's the only tank in the game aside from leona who legitimately feels tanky.

I pick his shield first solely to get the health stacks rolling. Now that his Q and E got nerfed, I'd recommend you do that as well. As for build, just straight tank: .

I prefer to give him a little bit of damage and lifesteal for his passive through and , but of course that hits his armor and magic resistance (usually Sion has enough health to disregard that though). If you want to continue to stick tank items on him, I'd roll with or .

Slow + attack speed slow + damage He'll make you miserable AND if you are in range to attack a high value target, said high value target is also in range of YOU and can retaliate You're probably gonna loose because of Malphite wrecking you at the same time