Sion·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Sion Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Demolish, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, as well as Approach Velocity and Cash Back in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Heartsteel as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Sunfire Aegis. For your last 3 items, you should build Unending Despair, Thornmail and finish with Titanic Hydra. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 51.5% winrate over 4 089 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Sion Top build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Phase Rush as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus and Gathering Storm in the primary tree, and Conditioning with Demolish in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Youmuu's Ghostblade, which you should build first, followed by Boots of Swiftness as your second item and Axiom Arc as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Opportunity, The Collector and Lord Dominik's Regards. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 47.3% win rate over 2 886 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Demolish, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Approach Velocity with Cash Back in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Sunfire Aegis as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Unending Despair as a third item. You want to finish the build with Thornmail, Jak'Sho, The Protean and Overlord's Bloodmail. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 55.3% win rate across 2 474 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Sion Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning and Overgrowth as your primary rune tree, and Approach Velocity with Cash Back as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Hollow Radiance as your first item, then finish Mercury's Treads as your second item, and Unending Despair as third item. The last 3 options are Thornmail, Jak'Sho, The Protean and Titanic Hydra. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 56.1% win rate over 2 162 matches played.

Situational Sion Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Sion build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.