Sion Baron Lane Wild Rift overview and best build snapshot
Best Build
Quick snapshot of the default setup for this guide.
Boots
Items
Summoner Spells
Spell 1
Flash
Spell 2
Teleport
How to play
Farm steadily to build health Killing minions builds permanent health through your 2nd ability. Use its shield and your 1st ability to farm without losing too much health.
Slow enemies before charging your swing Use your 3rd ability to slow an enemy, then hold your 1st ability long enough to knock them up when you release it.
Use your ultimate from a clear route Start a fight when your team can follow, and avoid charging far beyond their reach.
Guide author
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Strengths
- Top-tier long-range engage: Unstoppable Onslaught (Ult) accelerates during its finite charge and can steer only at a slow turn rate, so it threatens distant fights without being an instant global cast.
- Extremely durable scaler who keeps fighting even after dying, thanks to his zombie passive.
- Strong lane sustain through his shield, hard to poke out or zone off farm.
Weaknesses
- Slow and telegraphed: sidestepping the charged knockup removes most of his threat.
- Kited hard by ranged and mobile champions outside his ultimate.
- Low solo kill pressure, so bullies can farm against him with little fear.
Sion Baron Lane Wild Rift best build, items, runes, summoner spells, and skill order
ITEM BUILD
Best Wild Rift build for Sion Baron Lane, including items, runes, summoner spells, and skill order.
STARTING ITEM
Early health, and his passive brings him back after death with a share of that same health bar.
BOOTS
Armor and health for a lane he wins by refusing to die rather than by dealing damage.
CORE BUILD
Clears the wave and gives magic durability, which is what lets him shove and still survive the collapse.
Build this when Sion needs armor and anti-heal. Entwine applies Grievous Wounds from his own damage as well as enemy attacks, so Decimating Smash (1st) and Soul Furnace (2nd) can tag several healers instead of waiting for each one to hit him.
Damages nearby enemies and heals him for it. He is standing in the middle of them by design.
Build fourth after Unending Despair. Health and regeneration help Sion recover between trades and keep shoving waves without recalling. Step away from incoming damage to let the regeneration activate. Warmog's Heart requires 1250 bonus Health before its out-of-combat regeneration activates.
Build this when you are fighting in the middle of the enemy team and need both armor and magic resist. His ultimate charges him there.
SITUATIONAL ITEMS
Stacks permanent health from trades, which is his durability and the size of the body that comes back after death.
Build this when the enemy team has several attack-speed carries. Sion's ultimate and charge force close contact, keeping Frozen Heart's aura on the enemies trying to cut through his health stack.
Build this when the enemy team has multiple crit champions. Sion's ultimate delivers him into their firing line, and crit reduction makes his health stacking much harder for a marksman to cut through.
Boot swap against heavy magic damage and crowd control. Unstoppable Onslaught (Ult) is already crowd-control immune during the charge; tenacity matters after it ends and while Sion is trying to begin a Decimating Smash (1st) channel.
RUNES
KEYSTONE
Permanent health growth, and his passive gives him a second life scaled off that same bar.
PRIMARY
His charge lands him in the middle of the enemy team, which is when this gives the most.
He farms through everything thrown at him, and this covers the poke that would otherwise push him out.
More maximum health makes Sion harder to kill and gives Glory in Death (Passive) a larger decaying health bar. Unstoppable Onslaught (Ult) itself does not scale from Sion's health.
SECONDARY
Ability haste means more charges and shields, which is how he controls space.
SITUATIONAL RUNES
Take this over Overgrowth when crowd control is a bigger threat than long-term health. Its tenacity shortens most disables and grants temporary defenses while immobilized. The shorter disable helps Sion begin charging his knock-up before enemies can walk around his frontline position.
Take this over Transcendence against teams that allow prolonged frontline fights. Shorter Decimating Smash (1st) and Soul Furnace (2nd) cooldowns help Sion threaten another knockup and refresh his shield while holding space.
SUMMONER SPELLS
MAIN SPELLS
Flash
Must take. His charge is slow and easy to see, so Flash is how he lands the knock up at the end of it.
Teleport
He is a tank who shoves waves and dies on purpose to keep pushing, and this is what puts him back on the map straight away instead of walking.
SKILL ORDER
Skill Priority Order
- 11st Ability
Q - 22nd Ability
W - 33rd Ability
E
Sion Baron Lane Wild Rift matchups and counters
Wild Rift matchup guide for Sion Baron Lane, covering favorable lanes and difficult counters to prepare for in ranked.
Good Matchups
These champions are favorable matchups for this pick in Wild Rift. You have advantages against them and can play more aggressively.
Tryndamere
His whole champion is autos into a body built to ignore them. He cannot burst through your shield and health, you knock up his commits, and he brings less to teamfights.
Teemo
Blinding Dart (1st) affects Sion's basic attacks but does not stop Decimating Smash (1st), Roar of the Slayer (3rd), or Soul Furnace (2nd), whose shield absorbs much of Teemo's poison trade. Use Roar's (3rd) slow before charging the knockup, keep the shield for Toxic Shot (Passive) rather than the minion wave, and sweep the lane before committing Unstoppable Onslaught (Ult) through mushroom paths.
Malphite
Armor stacking does not stop your Q (1st) knockup and shield burst, which out-trade his shield poke, and your engage beats his at every stage of the game.
Kennen
Soul Furnace (2nd) absorbs the repeated Shuriken (1st) and Electrical Surge (2nd) poke that normally pushes a melee champion out, while Sion's wave clear prevents Kennen from freezing him away from farm. Slow Kennen with Roar (3rd) before charging Decimating Smash (1st), keep the shield for a marked stun trade, and scale through the lane instead of chasing Lightning Rush (3rd).
Camille
Her burst opener hits a shield instead of a health bar, and your charged knockup catches the hookshot she engages with. Her percent-health damage only becomes a problem in long duels.
Sion Counters
These champions counter this pick in Wild Rift and can be difficult matchups. Learn how to play against them or consider banning them.
Darius
Apprehend (3rd) can displace Sion during Decimating Smash (1st) and put the interrupted ability on its short cooldown, while Hemorrhage (Passive) grinds through his large health bar. The pull does not remove Soul Furnace's (2nd) shield, so detonate it before Darius breaks it and avoid telegraphing a full charge in open space.
Gwen
Every health item increases the value of Gwen's percentage-health damage, and the center of Snip Snip! (1st) deals true damage. Hallowed Mist (2nd) only makes her untargetable to enemies outside it, so step into the mist before releasing Decimating Smash (1st) or expect the cast to miss her.
Fiora
Your big health pool makes her vitals hit harder, and your charged Q (1st) is a free parry stun for her. The vitals also shred the shield and tank stats you scale into.
Yone
He dashes through the charged Q (1st) wind-up and out-skirmishes you at every turn, and his spirit-form trades chip your shield faster than it refreshes.
Vayne
Silver Bolts (2nd) punishes Sion's maximum-health stacking, and Vayne can kite Decimating Smash (1st) or use Condemn (3rd) to interrupt its channel. Condemn (3rd) cannot stop Unstoppable Onslaught (Ult) while Sion is crowd-control immune, but she can reposition before impact and resume kiting after the charge ends.
Sion Baron Lane Wild Rift game strategy and teamfighting guide
Wild Rift game strategy for Sion Baron Lane, from early lane control through mid and late game map play to final teamfights.