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 Sunfire Aegis as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Heartsteel. For your last 3 items, you should build Overlord's Bloodmail, Thornmail and finish with Titanic Hydra. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 52.1% winrate over 7 917 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 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. 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 Heartsteel, which you should build first, followed by Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Sunfire Aegis as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Overlord's Bloodmail, Thornmail and Titanic Hydra. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 51.5% win rate over 6 700 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 Hollow Radiance as your first item, then Mercury's Treads as a second item and Heartsteel as a third item. You want to finish the build with Overlord's Bloodmail, Titanic Hydra and Jak'Sho, The Protean. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 54.4% win rate across 2 768 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, Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus and Gathering Storm as your primary rune tree, and Conditioning with Demolish as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Youmuu's Ghostblade as your first item, then finish Boots of Swiftness as your second item, and The Collector as third item. The last 3 options are Lord Dominik's Regards, Infinity Edge and Axiom Arc. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 41.1% win rate over 659 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.