How an INTING SION got CHALLENGER (TheBausffs)

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it's not an exaggeration to say that he single handedly responsible for the Sion nerf during his trip in Korea

Another reason why krugs are so important is because each individual kill on the krugs adds to his passive stacks, which is what makes them way more valuable than any other camp. This is why Baus often takes enemy krugs as well if he is blue side

I like to believe The sion Nerf this patch was done because of baus and he is single handedly responsible for it.

The fact that sion was untouched by riot while baus was in eu but as soon as baus went to Korea, sion got nerfed, really proves something.

Never have I seen a man wreak more havoc in korean soloQ before

Honestly, Baus' positive attitude in his videos is so damn refreshing. He's playing against the best, he takes the good and the bad in stride, but still is having a good time. Love his content (and yours too Mr. Chime.)

Also remember, just because you're dying 18 times per game doesn't mean you're playing like Baus. Baus dies for a reason every single time. He uses his death to get ahead in gold or stay even with his opponent. So guys, please stop feeding with Sion. You're making Babus look bad.

WP to this Sion he played safe during laning phase, minimized deaths and yea he let some cs go but now hes scaled and is working with his team to win the game! Well played to this Sion!

Another reason he gets kruggs is because of Sion W passive where he gains HP per minion killed. That's also why getting perfect CS is important for the playstyle. He'd even go 11-12 CS per minute in some games. His HP come late game even on AD Sion is massive and he's basically a tank regardless of the build.

In bausffs playstyle, the cull is super important and I think you did not mention it. He gets the cull really early and because he farms so well, the cull becomes extremely valuable.

The thing is everyone highlights the int part of his playstyle, while really its more about him putting cs above anything. The impressive thing isn't dying, it's knowing that dying sometimes can be benefitial and getting around 10 cs per minute almost every single game .

my thing about bausff is he creates a fun league playstyle, he roams, he punishes and if he dies he just laughs and calls it "death angle", it truly makes me want to play other champions with the sion style just so i can enjoy league like him

I've hated Baus for really long time but i dived into the macro of his plays when he got to Korea and i gotta say damn, he is a real genious. The level of understanding the game by him is outstanding. The guy went from inter to solo boloing Canna and Pzang among many others. Yes he trolled in Faker game but he did what he always does, he played his playstyle untill defeat. The fact that he isn't distracted by getting kills, barons and dragons he just goes for the nexus and with the best possible strategy. Push towers, get gold win. Absolute legend

One thing missing in this video that's extremely important and that babus uses all the time is the R-Q trick.
Example at 8:23
If you press Q right after R sion skips to the end of the R animation (the slamming down part), this makes ulting in melee range basically a guarantee hit (you can see thebausffs doing it all the time when he lands a Q while close to his enemy). The stun also has a longer duration that way.
Basically if you learn this you get a guaranteed R hit in melee (which could otherwise be dashed or flashed out of) and longer cc
Here's a description of the bug by Caenen, probably the most famous bug hunter in lol and a sion main:
"Sion is a very bugged champ and this also goes for his R.
Collision via R's charge and the leap at the end have separate effects. The stun from the leap collision lasts half a second longer. Originally this was the case for any channel time, but a bug fix tackled half this bug and now the charge collision stun duration at range is the same as the leap collision. The non-range one however is still longer if you collide with the leap.
Sion R has a short window in which you cannot recast it, as a means to prevent accidental double casts that'd ruin the cast for the user. However, if your Q is up, using R+Q will end the R channel immediately, not actually cast Q (because Q is sealed during R's channel and the leap), and initiate the leap with which you can collide with a target.
If you then time the Q properly to begin as soon as you collided, you will be able to channel for at least 1 second while the enemy is stunned."
So yeah, I felt like I should mention it

To all top laners feeling motivated to do krugs now: please remember, not every champ is made to easily kill krugs early levels...if you lose 50% health doing it or even worse, lose half a wave because it takes too long, this can have the opposite effect. In this case, look for another objective to do.

Great video, but I think you should have focused on phase rush a bit more. As it allows him to easily run away from bad matchups while alive, but also it allows his passive to gain massive amounts of speed!

As a huge fan that loves off meta picks and trying them out i love this channel! I started watching a lot of baus videos recently and have become a Sion main at the moment. I would say phase rush is understated in this video as like in the fiora/Darius matchup it is great for an auto fast q/w auto combo to run out of danger in lane/early game. It is also extremely useful in your passive as it gives you the extra move speed you need to chase along with the passive's active. Also the proxy farming is strong after pushing minion waves to tower and the enemy lancer either chases, gets slowed or knocked up AND misses minions, or the laner has to farm and let you take wave and then you can take gromp/golems out of vision while waiting for the next wave. This helps stay safe as well as using ult to get away/back to tower to meet your minions at tower for tower damage (through ult and a couple autos) or to safety.
Hope that adds more details but of course these videos are amazing and very detailed and well researched :)

The guy is just a tactical genius. I don’t think Riot should try to stop him because he is just so damn smart; while his strategy is kind of exploit-y, he knows so much macro that he is the only person who can consistently pull it off. I can’t imagine him playing a champ that he can just straight up carry on.

I've been watching Baus for a couple years now and I think the biggest thing is that he's just a genuinely likable dude.
Also, people don't talk enough about his micro. His movement lets him win a lot of fights he really has no business winning.

Baus is one of the greediest players I know. When it fails it looks awful, but when it works (most games) he gets far ahead.
You and Baus are my favorite League Clip-Sharers to watch :)

Mans is so good he single-handedly got a whole damn champion nerfed! I love him and his mind set when playing. League is a fun game about problem solving, so if you get all tilted you make bad plays. Just keeping yourself level-headed and focusing on winning makes the game so much more enjoyable.

The ult cancel is not ALWAYS the right move. If you watch Baus you can see him miss it many times just because he tries to do it. It's great for extra CC yes but you don't always need it, and doing it risks the enemy flashing and escaping at the last second.

Its really unexpected, but Sion has the best turnrate, smoothest animation and best attack detection in the game. Despite being a giant who looks clunky af, he is the opposite.

Coach Curtis said something offhand in his most recent video (the bronze one) that's really stuck with me. He said, "Scaling means nothing if you can't CS."
I think TheBausffs is a pretty perfect example of it. While it can be dangerous to only go for CS, he plays in such a smart and unique way he really proves that point, out scaling everyone even though his KDA ratio on some of his games would make Yasuo's look good.

A good death from Baus is almost always set up by himself. He doesn't "react to it positively". He seizes the initiative and carries out his plan even when it involves his death, be it wave control, farm, teamfights, towers or nexus. The lesson here is that you should allow yourself to react to plays as little as possible, that you should be the one making plans, seizing initiative and forcing the opponents to react.

Another thing about Sion is that I don't think most people fully understand how well he makes use of Titanic in his tank build. I can't think of another champion that makes better use of the scaling AD on Titanic than Sion, I've had games where my Titanic is giving me upward of 80-90 AD by itself.

to be honest, ive learned more from baus than any other individual player, he taught me to not care about deaths and have good wave clear, and since then ive won more games, and even if i lose im almost always most gold, really does wonders, the only thing is teams in lower elos really and i mean REALLY like fighting 4v5 for some odd reason

I don't even ply LoL anymore, but I like this channel for showing how cool the game could be

2:32 "The classic Baus gameplay starts at level 1"
I, too, have mastered this strategy

there used to be a gap between regions. KR > NA, EU and somewhat tied with China. pulling ahead or falling slightly behind but not too noticeable. the gap has definitely closed up over the years with these players

The ult cancel part was kinda wrong. The extra stun is applied any ways, canceling early prevents the selfstun of sion ult which gives him more time to hit the enemey.

This guys is a different breed, I watched him a lot before and hes chill even if he has 10 deaths

One small correction: Baus always goes for swiftness boots, not defensive boots. He thinks they are underrated, and generally really good on Sion.

After trying Inting Sion on the silver elo, I can say that Tank Sion is much more "beginner friendly" than Lethality Sion.

Sion gets 4hp for every minion he kills with his w passive and 15 for the big crock. This means he gets with one big Crock (15) 3 medium ones (4each) and 6 small ones (4each aswell) in total 15+3*4+6*4= 15+12+24= 51hp on top of the gold he gets.

Krugs aren't about gold or being the only objective. It's about the passive. Each one of the minions buffs his HP which makes building AD even better as he continually becomes more and more beefy just by farming.

this guy: I am challenger sion
teammates: but what did it cost you?
this guy: my KDA

I never play inting Sion Top, but I actually learnt a lot from Baus about how to manage wave and what is good die.

i would like to have a video of you every single day because they are stupidly entertaining

5:25 you forget to mention that every individual krug contributes to sion's w passive which makes it even more valuable than other camps

Baus: Sion is too weak
*Gets nerf*
Spearshot: Pantheon is broken
*Gets buffed*

Also, when Thebaus starts to Proxy a lane the enemy top has two choices: try to chase him and lose waves of farm or sit on their tower and farm.

sion W plays for me a big part why thebaus his strats work... sunfire and titanic are good items but are super busted on sion because aslong as he gets farm he keeps getting more hp, more sunfire dmg, and more AD from titanic hydra.

As annoying and unhealthy as i think the inting sion playstyle is, i gotta say i love this guys attitude and creativity. I love when players find weird ways to build champions - ad tf, hybrid kaisa/corki, jungle garen (hi, i played that years before it went mainstream), ardent diana, open the gates udyr - a lot of those might be broken right after being found, but nerfs regulate that, and these builds should never be made completely unviable

When you said it’s very unlikely to land Q on a challenger player. With all the time I’ve seen them jump right into it or get hit from bush despite it being obvious that the Sion was still there after watching Baus. I think landing q on a lower elo player is harder since they are unpredictable 😂😂

I must say i felt in LOVE with this inting Sion strategy at first game.
Enemies just dont know what to do or they ff after they lose 1vs5 to a 0/10 Sion XD

This sounds more like a love letter to Baus than anything else. Inting Sions keep ruining my games, but only when they're my allies

Literally thebauffs being more relevant now makes sion being played more, the same happened in LAN and LAS servers when a spanish streamer named MANUTE played the old mordekaiser, with 8 million points in mastery, making this champ being played a lot because it had a hidden potential, this guy MANUTE was so famous in 2018 that riot invited him to test the new mordekaiser and give feed back

When I was able to sacrifice enough time to climb to Dia I have only played Lulu top/mid going AD (on-hit), AP and hybrid. She is so flexible that if your team does well you can even go support to make sure they do not throw. However the dude I was following and got the tips from completely disappeared. Do not you have a one trick Lulu main up in your sleeves? :D ta

i think you shouldve added to the title that it was in Korea, definetily a bigger achievement than EU or NA and i think baus deserves it :)

The man singlehandedly responsible for making Sion probably the most obnoxious pick in all of my games and responsible for more splitpushing feeders than anyone I've known in living memory...making me want to play regular games in League a lot less..

I love the section What We Can All Learn from Bause: "You are the one who decides how to react to something bad." So true!

Lethality sion has been a thing for awhile, quite a coincidence they decided to nerf it after the Faker incident. And sure, the problem could be the monkey brains imitating(inting) the playstyle, but its quite funny how one swedish man can catch the attention of a blind ass company. Maybe have him play other champs too

Ive been waiting for this for literally months hahaha, i love thebauffs he is very chill and cute

DO NOT forget that by pressing ULT-Q at the same time in melee range you will perform a max stunt without ulting from far away

My opinion is that Baus isn't entirely the reason they nerfed it. They REALLY don't want that playstyle on display in worlds

So years before i ever heard of baus, Tilterella was playing AD scion since the rework you guys should check out his channel. It was the first iteration of ad scion i had ever seen. He is australian so i believe hes on ocianic, but he is a challenger player as well and i believe also played on the korean servers as well sometimes(tho im not certain about the last part.)

More support video's pls.. I really love watching them!

ive been watching baus all season, and hes 100% the reason they finally had to nerf sion

people joke about yasuo's 10 death power spike, but when baus plays sion he actually has a 10 death power spike.

I knew that sion inting strat was a thing before I knew about this legend

Noticed a couple of thing missing from his "full builds" that you show. One important thing he gets literally everygame is cull, either first back (after 2 waves) when he goes tank, or after he finishes his serrated dirk (if he goes AD).
Another thing to mention, is he never goes MR/AD boots on tank SIon, instead opting for Swiftness Boots. IIRC - he mentioned on stream that the extra resistances are redundant on tank SIon, and movement speed enables alot of his gameplay decisions.
Above all though... WP to this Sion. He played safe during laning phase, minimized deaths and yea he let some CS go but now he's scaled and is working with his team to win the game! Well played to this Sion!

Don’t forget that his logic behind ad soon is that it makes a hard lane possible to win. Tank sion can’t win some matchups at all, so his reasoning is tank sion into easy matchups and ad into hard ones since ad sion at least gives a chance

I think you did baus injustice. He explains why he focuses on farm. He doesn't just try to die on level 1 he dies if he knows that he will either break even or get ahead in CS. He is not thinking about kills nor buildings but only about gold income. Changes like bounties on players, boutnies on turrets, platings and changes to kill gold while ahead can construct a situation where being ahead in kills puts you on a HUGE economic disadvantage. He understands the economy better than everyone else.

Was waiting for this episode for so long. Love the vids ✨️

Big vouch for opera, been using it for about a year as well

He is the solobolo master after all.

sion's nerfed, funny how riot think this is nerf worthy for Sion, but Yone murdering your entire team while being 3 screens away is entire acceptable and balanced

12:31 you forgot to mention that this quote only works for people who use champion that can do something while in a deathscreen/dead aka sion.

Baus and Tilterella are the reason Sion is my most played character now, i never really thought of playing AD Sion but after seeing what they can do with it i tried it and well, it became my favorite thing to play for a while

Mid inting Sion with Berserker's Greaves + Hullbreaker + Trinity Force + Titanic Hydra + Guinsoo's Rageblade + Blade of the Ruined King is pretty powerful now, just try to get 10cs/m and destroy 3 mid turrets in 14 minutes, you can win easily

So it finally happened huh? The long awaited babus video

3 days ago I looked "How an Inting sion got challenger" and now you made the video, maybe I can see into the future

Rip Tilterella who was the original Sion main. Never even heard of this Baus guy.

The crossover that we were not ready for

Been in almost every Baus stream and climbed to plat 2 in season from gold 4, here are the important traits that the video missed
1. Krugs are important to sion not only bcoz of maximing time/gold, but also it gives the most health (w passive) among all the jungle monsters in the game. Just make sure to kill the tiniest krugs.
2. If you are 100% that u want a "good death", make sure to never use ur e until the last second. The slow combined with phase rush will surely give you a free kill
3. The most op combi with sion that is r then immediately press q. This only works for shortage but it guarantees the extra knock up/cc essential for a fully charged q.

I saw this video way too late and I don't know if anybody pointed this out but often times he also likes to go swiftness boots on tank sion. If I recall correctly he said that the stats from boots don't matter that much because you will get a ton of it anyways so he likes to go swifties.

He says he doesnt play Inting Sion, he plays Smart Sion hahah

I think the only player to come close to the split pushing style Bauss has to be Singed420, that man had a similar idea where he'd ALWAYS be farming from inside the enemy base, he'd try his best to force enemies to go back to base to stop him, leaving large parts of the maps uncontested for his allies.
Singed420 had the global map pressure down early game, where as Bauss excels at putting pressure down late game. Plus Sion makes very good use of all the CS he obtains over time, a true snowball effect.

so its his fault if i hate sion so much, but i have to admit this is genius

He is basically relying on infinite scaling HP passive. Makes sense why his build can be very powerful once Sion has a lot of HP. What I don't like is Riot purposely nerfing something unique all because it doesn't fit the meta.

I love the bausffs and watch his streams all the time, but I don't think he was the inventor of the original inting Sion, he did popularize lethality Sion though. I thought the original inting Sion was from before hullbreaker even existed, I could be wrong though

Hey chime, Recently found your channel and it’s awesome, keep up the great work!

Demolish damage scales also on bonus HP, broken on Sion

Yee yee to this content creator, he did his homework, and yeah he missed some details but it scales well and had a strong finish

I saw KatEvolved playing against him in Korean challenger. Also love your videos.

I was waiting for this channel to feature Baus, now I can rest in peace

The way you describe thebaus's playstyle reminds me so much of Trick2g. I hope he gets out of low elo so he also gets featured in your channel!

With Baus getting all this notoriety maybe he can finally buy the *Brabus*

Juicy uploads today with this and Coach Curtis LB guide. But baus takes swiftness as tank

you forgot about buying cull he always try to kill first 19 minions recall and buy cull with control ward, and you need to kill all first 19 minions otherwise you can’t afford ward

How an inting Sion went 2/18 in Faker's match

Baus might be getting flamed for "inting", but thr man's got a pretty good mindset.

This is the true SoloQ, no team i carry even dying

The reason for him doing krugs is because of his w passive

F for the guys and my ex-friend who does Inting and Bausffs Special before he was known for it.

i just played this today while i was kayle i couldnt not fight him but he lost cause his team was all feeding

Tyler waited for him to leave so he doesn't have to face master Baus

This is a long time coming. Most possible the best and most famous off-meta player.