In League of Legends the Twitch streamer Thebausffs has made a strange tactic famous with the champion “Sion”: Inting Sion. In doing so, he kills himself repeatedly with the champion so that he can rampage as an “undead behemoth” and smash towers. That should come to an end soon. Riot is preparing a nerf.
What is the gag of Sion?
- The undead behemoth Sion has been in LoL since February 21, 2009, and was reworked in 2014. Sion is a tank and is played in the top lane or mid lane.
- According to his lore, Sion is a former warlord who strangled a king with his bare hands. Even after his death, he must continue to serve his realm Noxus: Sion is a kind of zombie warrior who rushes at his enemies in primitive armor and barely remembers who he really is or once was.
- His passive ability “Glory in Death” ensures that Sion resurrects after his death, at which point he can only use enhanced auto-attacks while his zombie corpse decays and he constantly loses health points.
“Kill mobs, hit tower, die, keep hitting the tower”
What is the tactic with him? The Twitch streamer Simon Thebausffs has devised a tactic known as “Inting Sion”:
- Sion focuses on killing the wave of minions on his lane, then dives into the enemy’s tower and takes hits until he dies there.
- Then he stands up as a zombie and uses his enhanced auto-attacks to keep pounding on the tower.
- He repeats this until he has destroyed the nexus.
The tactic is so strange, that TheBausfffs was temporarily banned from LoL for this back in January 2021.
What is so strange about the tactic? The tactic is the ultimate ego trip (via leaguefeed). One follows one’s own plan, ignores everything around oneself, helps no teammate, does not respond to the opponent, but only plays one’s own game while essentially blocking out the rest of LoL.
The tactic is also called “inting” (“intentional feeding”) because it looks like Sion is repeatedly committing suicide on purpose, wanting to sabotage his own team and actually help the opponent.
This leads to an “inting Sion” even in games where he wins having a relatively high death rate, often in double digits.
In 2020, “Thebausffs” released a video with a comprehensive guide to “Sion” that has since collected 1.1 million views (via youtube).
He still advises that one should wait until everyone is fighting to push one’s lane – or that one should also get involved in a fight as long as one can teleport back to the lane.
The German LoL expert Maxim has analyzed the strategy:
Successful strategy, but very poor “KDA” value
Why is this currently relevant again? Thebausffs has been making headlines recently because he exported his “Inting Sion” strategy to Korea and confronted the Koreans with his strange way of playing LoL.
He climbed to Challenger there on April 24. He achieved this in less than a month. The ironic thing is that he did this with a “negative KDA.”
According to the statistics from op.gg, while TheBausffs won 58% of his 305 matches with Sion, he achieved a 0.97:1 KDA with scores of 4.9 – 9.1 – 3.9 (via op.gg).
Twitch streamer somewhat proud that Riot is changing the game just because of him
What is Riot doing against this tactic now: Riot will reduce the damage that Sion does to towers in zombie form by 50 %.
The nerf is already active on the test server.
How does the streamer react? He seems to be amused that Riot Games is changing League of Legends just because of him.
Another Twitch streamer has also changed LoL, albeit in a completely different way:
Twitch streamer cries when he sees he is now part of LoL: “I am no longer a random”
