Heavy-pressure frontline build: Sion is not worth only because he tanks, but because he occupies space before the fight, absorbs enemy time, and forces the opposing team to answer a body they cannot ignore. The build must reinforce that presence pressure as much as raw durability.
Three builds, one right answer per draft. The advisor reads the five enemies (and your allies) and names who triggers what — the same rule as the Draft MVP sheet and Ask Nexus.
Best Sion build (Baron Lane): Sunfire Aegis › Heartsteel › Kaenic Rookern › Dawnshroud › Abyssal Mask, boots Plated Steelcaps, keystone Grasp of the Undying. Three variants and when to pick each are below.
Standard build maximizing damage output. Use on neutral matchups or when ahead.
14,200 total cost
Nothing dominates on the other side: the standard build maximizes your damage.
Open this draft in the tool →Resistance build geared against physical damage (AD) compositions.
14,300 total cost +100g
Physical-damage enemy team: Darius, Lee Sin, Lucian.
Open this draft in the tool →Resistance build geared against magic damage (AP) compositions.
14,350 total cost +150g
Scores out of 10: where this champion sits against the whole roster, phase by phase. The strip shows its own power ramp level by level — it does not compare across champions.
Your hardest matchups in this role, and the item from your situational list that answers each one.
Vayne
Thornmail
Recurring healing
Gnar
Mantle of the Twelfth Hour
Physical damage
Ryze
Gargoyle Stoneplate
Magic damage
Fiora
Thornmail
Recurring healing
Same advisor in the Draft (the MVP sheet applies it to your real draft) and in Ask Nexus, which explains the choice. On counters pages: the variant to take against each counter-pick.
Foundational item core, without recent situational additions — kept as a base for understanding the kit. For the up-to-date build, see the section above.
Sion gains value by absorbing damage and staying in fights. This build maximizes durability.
Ruby Crystal
Passive damage, Sion stays on the frontline and sticks in melee
Damage return + anti-heal, Sion tanks the frontline in fights
HP drain in melee, combos with the passive's stacked HP from W
Plated Steelcaps
Mercurys Treads
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trades frequent with Q Soul Furnace activate Grasp to a HP growing without limit.
Takes advantage of passive post-mortem Glory in Death to destroy structures even mort.
Lane sustain maintain a pressure constant and keep'accumulate HP.
Amplifies the passive Glory in Death by accumulating maximum HP bonus.
The burn rides your long-range E poke — you chip opponents before the first charged Q.
Sunfire Aegis
Hollow Radiance
Amaranth's Twinguard
Frozen Heart
Amaranth's Twinguard
Randuin's Omen
Plated Steelcaps
Mercury's Treads
Overgrowth
Perseverance
With Sunfire Aegis and Titanic Hydra, Sion greatly accelerates his wave pressure. He can clear fast, hit the tower with Demolish, then choose between staying side or joining the objective. This window matters because it turns his tankiness into tempo: the enemy is no longer answering only a hard-to-kill champion, but a real macro threat.
