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Gay-Lussac

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Sion is getting a full relaunch, probably in the next patch (the one after the very next one, I mean). I'd say playing him right now is just a bad idea, he's got a really weird kit and all of his skills are getting redesigned soon, so it's kind of pointless.
 

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Don't play him. Not viable unfortunately. For derping you can try Sion jungle, Taric supp and combo stuns and ults. Won a ranked game recently with that setup.
 

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Sion is a mess that needs a complete rework and a new identity. Not worth playing right now, IMO. My bet is that they'll try to salvage his fighter role and totally scrap his mage role. Better to just play something else until he is changed.
 

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He usually plays jungle with Sion, but Im more interested in recommending him a build. He constantly tries playing him full AP, I played Sion maybe two times when he was free ages ago so I really dont know anything about him, but I keep telling him to play AD bruiser, he tried it once and was horrible (but then again all of his Sion games no matter the build was horrible), so I thought maybe a few build recommendations from good players would help him.
 

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If he plays him in the jungle, AD is the only way to go really. Since his E gives double bonus health on large monster kills it's not that bad really. Point and click stun is a good way to open up a gank. I'd say 9/21 masteries and AS runes as he gets a lot of AD for free from E. Jungle item of your choice into BotRK and then tanky. Something like jungle item, blade, boots, Omen, Visage + final item of your choice.
 

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Sion is definitely the most viable as AP, both in jungle and in lane.

I'd say his strongest build is the good old season 2 AP build. Push mid with your W and go roam with your point and click stun.

I'd recommend Deathfire Grasp, Mobility Boots, Deathcap and Void Staff. Definitely get a couple of Doran's rings too.

I'd max W first and Q second and run Ignite/Flash.

You kind of fall off late game since you lose all your damage when your W shield is down. When that happens all you'll be is a squishy mage in the middle of the enemy team. Not good.

Make sure to farm with your E activated and you'll get deceptively tanky. Your ult is only good for sustaining while doing a jungle camp or some shit. It's good for taking blue solo as well. It can sometimes save you when your abilities are on cooldown I guess, but it's rare. The ult is just not good at all when going AP.

I see a Sion main here or there in high elo and it's actually surprisingly good, but I'd argue that it's very very hard to play correctly. His early laning phase is weak and his late game is weak unless you get a perfect flank. Once you have DFG and Mobility boots you are the strongest you will be in the game so be sure to take advantage of that. You have to keep a mental tally of wards because you will need to get effective roams to be useful. TF is probably a better champion for this though.
 

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The best Sion that I ever had in a ranked game with me was actually top lane AP Sion. AP mid Sion is probably the most successful, I remember imaqtpie running it in diamond 1, but top lane AP Sion takes care of the poor scaling issues by building AP bruiser and being an unkillable tank, sort of like Garen or something.
 

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OMG Skarner back into LCS play oh god its heaven

Back to Promos...again. 7 is a lucky number, right? Went on a tear using Lissandra mid (thanks Renegen, she is stealth OP soloq), and Morgana supp. All the team builder practice has helped.

Would love to feel confident with mixing in Zyra since she feels like a carry support (no, really, farming spellthief is stupid easy in bronze, I'm very rarely last with supp Morg).

EDIT: Curse vs. Complexity...just watch it.
 
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Dont try to carry as a support, just look after your ad carry so he can rightclick when its needed. You'll lose in utility and survivability if you spend moneys on damage items.
AP supports still feel too squishy for my taste, anyway.
 

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Naa Zyra actually builds AP even in the LCS. She's also so fragile any support crap won't save her or peel effectively, the best defense is a good offense.
 

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Finally promoted to silver tier. Won my first two matches, 1 very difficult as Zyra, the next laning went great, teamfights not so much as morg but we win solidly. Lose a match as Lissandra mid when the Akali got fed on a roam where I killed the ADC then she came up and killed my jungler, support, and ADC. FUCK. ME. Lose a match as Fiddlesticks which turned out to be a bad pick when the enemy team has Amumu and Orianna. Didn't help that our mid accidentally picked Morde, then disconnected for a solid 5 minutes of laning.

But that last match. I'm bummed because it feels like I'm going to lose my 7th promo. I'm last pick so I figure support, whatever it's worked for me. But no, I get jungle. Let's try Vi this time. Nope enemy team picks her first. Fuck me Kha'ziix sucks now so I'll do Fiddlesticks again. My whole team opens the floodgates of rage besides my mid. "Go tank, go tank." We already have a damage sponge in Shyvana, why do I need to go tanky, and who is this mythical tank jungler that is strong in S4? That shit pisses me off every fucking game. Everyone wants a tank jungle to take all the damage because their delusion is that they'll make flashy plays and secure a kill. Fuck them.

Nothing special happens before my first gank. I go top, me and Shyv kill Udyr with FB going to me. Awesome, good start. Can't do jack to the tower yet so I roll mid. Me and Heimer kill Morde, I start a kill streak. Awesome. Mid and top ahead already? Bottom is outfarming? Easy day. Except they fuck this up too. Shyvana starts hemmoraging to Udyr, pretty much constantly pinging for assistance because laning is teh hard. Heimer starts having trouble against Morde, but I keep ganking and I almost take top tower, at this point I'm all over the map. I get to 6 kills before my first death. Finally, mid and bot take towers at about the same time. I'm also soloing dragons because I'm sexy and we start doing great picks. We're up like 23 kills to 14, plus every single dragon has gone our way. Just walk it in right? Sniped out Vayne in a quick skirmish, and an inhib, I say Imma grab drag. Heimer says lets do Baron. Good idea, were ahead, we've got everything on them, bait and win there right? Fuck no. Shyvana is on her own program at this point, soloing drag. We almost take baron, we almost win the 4 v 4, but me and Heimer are the only 2 coordinated so we lose, get aced even. The take our inhib. At this point Shyvana goes full retard and constantly splitpushes alone and has no teleport. Teamfights get difficult as hell we lose one where I'm certain its a loss, it's 4 freakin enemies attacking our nexus turrets, at this point I activate god mode or some shit. I manage a 1 v 4 triple kill, vayne runs off with about 200 health. We rush down mid lane, they're up, we fight but I get a perfect ult on. Apparently Udyr tried to back door us, but he blinks first so we win the base race. Finish 14 and 5 with a 2k gold lead over anyone. A 4k lead over the highest enemy team. And I secured some allchat rage directed at me from the enemies, especially Vi who twice had me at 200/100 health trying to damage for more than my w can heal.

Fuck man. My first match was dramatic as hell too. Would love some easy wins but all I care is I'm silver again.
 

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Holy shit, finally. Took me a month to grind up a division. And it happened in the most trollish game ever with boosted Kha, suicidal raging Jax and AP troll squad on the other side that went 0-15 + some towers and 2 dragons.
They were ahead 10-15k gold minimum and had a chance to finish it but derped at our nexus that was like 20%. Thankfully their Soraka started to afk, build shit items and troll cause she had some issues with our Kha that ruined her last game.
Fucking thing went on forever. whew
5th win in a row with Gragas. The tank of tanks.

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Lol, just spent 14k IP on ad/mag pen marks and health seals trying out a new Gragas build I saw on Solomid. With Relic shield he starts the game with 808 hp and if I go Ruby then its 883hp at lv1, lol. Worked quite alright but I didnt like the lack of gold/10 quints so I'll maybe put those back.
6 game win streak now, uu ye.
 

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Finally back to Diamond 3! My mission of getting back in the top 10.000 is nearing completion. Don't mind flamers!

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Awww, it's only for ranked.
I was really looking forward to finding out what the hell I was doing last weekend, since there's weird games in my match history including a jungle evelynn game which is freaky since I've never really played jungle against people before, and ending on a support karma where I apparently passed out drunk since it says "leave".
 

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I only get 1 or max 2 vision wards per game, at lv1 i get 1 green ward and a green trinket, farm up 1300 g for support upgrade and sightstone and change to red trinket. At next b i get 1 pink that stays somewhere in some bush.
Junglers buy em often too, what Ive noticed.
I think op.gg shows bought wards and stuff too, so check there for normal games.

Man, LCS sucks these days. Always the same picks, always fucking long games. Like 50 minutes long brawl with 20 kills in total. zzzzzz rito
 

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I'm just about giving up on baron calls when there's people alive on the other team. It goes like this: you have an advantage to explore, an inhib down, someone died on the other team, someone on the other team is cleaning up bot lane. So you start baron, thinking, if they come here, we'll turn on them and it's game over.

The other team comes in to check on it or contest it. My team keeps doing baron. Their jungler enters the freaking baron pit. My team keeps doing baron. Their jungler smites a split second before me. My entire team goes "OMG JUNGLER SUKS BALLS GG".

Is there some collective illusion that the team who starts baron has a jungler with a stronger version of smite or something? Not to mention that with 5-6 people hitting it, smite doesn't really mean all that much.

Oh and the cherry on top, on my last game where this happened the guy who gave me the most shit about it was our ADC, who I check on the new match history did a whopping 9.6k damage to champions on the entire 40 minute match. Our freaking support did 35k, and their entire team had nothing but MR.
 

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