Start
Early attack damage and health support Enrage farming; Shield is safer into ranged poke.
Alternative
Doran's Shield
Doran's Shield
POPULAR LEAGUE CLASSIC PLAYSTYLE
AD Sion Drain Tank
Trade health for Enrage farm, grow a larger permanent health pool, then use Cannibalism's attack-speed and lifesteal window to become difficult to remove—provided you can keep attacking.
Build Vampiric Scepter into Stark's Fervor, then Phantom Dancer and Infinity Edge. Max E first. The build fails when control or kiting prevents basic attacks, so defensive boots and target access are real damage choices.
QUICK BUILD
What to buy—and when.
Starting items
Boot choices
Situational
PURCHASE ORDER
Every recall solves a problem.
First recall
Lifesteal keeps the health-cost farming loop sustainable.
Alternative
Dagger
DaggerDrain core
Attack speed creates more Cannibalism healing events; crit converts uninterrupted uptime into real threat.
Alternative
The Black Cleaver
The Black CleaverReach or survive
Buy access and survival when enemy control prevents basic attacks.
Alternative
Banshee's Veil
Frozen Mallet
Banshee's VeilFrozen MalletWHY IT WORKS
The mechanics behind the memory.
Enrage grants attack damage and permanent health from kills, rewarding disciplined farming over random early fights.
Cannibalism grants attack speed and lifesteal for a long window. Every second of uninterrupted basic attacks converts offensive stats into survival.
RUNES & MASTERIES
Set up the playstyle before queue.
RUNES & MASTERIES
- Armor penetration marks
- Armor seals
- Scaling magic resistance glyphs
- Attack damage or movement speed quintessences
Skill order
Max E, then W, then Q; take R whenever available.
Core combo
Arm W while approaching → Q the target → activate R and E → keep attacking while saving the shield detonation for guaranteed value or wave clear.
Mastery baseline
Testing baseline: 21/9/0. Physical offense raises the drain window; defensive points help reach the first attack.
GAME PLAN
How to pilot each phase.
Opening
Toggle Enrage deliberately and last-hit. Do not bleed health on minions you were never going to secure.
Trading
Use Q to guarantee a brief attack window, then leave before ranged retaliation turns the health trade negative.
Power spikes
Vampiric Scepter stabilizes the health cost; Stark's makes longer exchanges possible; Phantom Dancer improves both access and drain frequency.
Mid game
Farm side lanes where permanent health keeps growing, but move before objectives rather than arriving after your ultimate window is needed.
Teamfights
Attack the nearest target you can actually reach. If control prevents uptime, peel or wait instead of walking through every spell.
Strengths
- Permanent health growth
- Powerful uninterrupted lifesteal window
- Targeted stun creates initial uptime
Weaknesses
- Kiting shuts down healing
- Healing reduction lowers the drain fantasy
- Expensive multi-item core
COMMON MISTAKES
How the build actually fails.
- Losing health to Enrage without securing last hits
- Building Berserker's Greaves into overwhelming control
- Chasing a carry while a reachable frontline target could sustain you
FAQ
FAQ
Why max Enrage first?
It provides the attack-damage engine and improves permanent-health farming. The build's late strength begins with early last-hit discipline.
When should I take Mercury's Treads?
Whenever crowd control, not raw attack speed, determines whether you can attack at all.
SOURCES & STATUS
Evidence before certainty.
Classic ability values are cross-checked against the client archive. The route is a testing baseline, especially against kiting and healing reduction.
Riot Games — League of Legends Classic developer overview Riot Games — patch 26.15 notes CommunityDragon — current client character archive Open champion guide: SionRELATED PLAYSTYLES
