Why pick Aurelion Sol in Competitive ?

4GLTE·3/10/2017, 2:37:05 AM·2 votes·2,136 views

I am working on a collection of information for each champion in Lol. Therefore I try to identify the most important aspect of a champion/ the most important strength of that Champion. So for Azir for example this could be his teamfighting strength and siege strength. For Ahri this could be how good she is as a generalist giving away little information about the potential teamcomp because she does fit into almost any composition.

The Strengths I can think about for Aurelion Sol are his amazing roaming potential but I think this is outclassed by Taliyah for example. Also I do think his teamfighting is strong but not exceptional. His disrupting power is not as strong as for example an Anivia. His laning phase is not too strong either though he is really strong in kiting(especially backwards) so maybe a synergy with kiting comps?

I am excited to hear your thoughts :)

5 Comments

legionnaire993/10/2017, 2:53:45 AM1 votes

He is the best control and zoning Mage you can play and late game he has high dps

MuffledGarbage3/10/2017, 2:57:21 AM1 votes

AurelionSol is a dragon who is amazing at engaging a teamfight. If I as Aurelion Sol use my E Q combo to engage a teamfight from super far away I am almost garunteed to get a flash reaction out of an enemy. If that enemy doesn't flash then they will almost definitely die at high level play due to very fast coordination.

AurelionSol can do the most DPS for an AP champion from earlygame to midgame. That's where Azir takes over and does more DPS at high level play.

Because of the range of Sol's W he can make picks thanks to item 3116 which is a similar situation to the EQ engage in that he forces an enemy to flash or to use a movement based ability.

Sol's ultimate can be used to move the enemy frontline out of the way so it's safer to approach OR it can be used to secure a kill thanks to the speed of his ultimate being tremendous.

Most of Sol's weaknesses can be covered in a major of three ways. One of which is more viable.

Sol's major weaknesses are his high mana costs, his shortage of self-peel, his strength isn't very viable against champions with blinks who can bypass the danger of Sol's stars. Examples include Katarina Ekko and Akali

In a teamfight Sol only has to worry about mana. Sol doesn't have to worry much about peel and if an enemy Katarina blinks directly in to try and kill him as long as AurelionSol is standing in the middle of his team then the is going to be melted very fast.

In the Jungle, Sol grab himself blue buff. Not much explanation needed there. The EQ ganks are also very powerful as Sol can gank pre-6 very often.

The last way for AurelionSol to cover his weaknesses would be to play support due to the mana regen Items being very good for Sol's mana pool. As long as the Sol grabs a item 3116 then he gains the same utility he would normally get. The difference being he'll do very little damage. So this is most definitely not an effective role for AurelionSol to play as.

So yeah I would say there are a lot of reasons to pick AurelionSol in the LCS

Ale non è male3/10/2017, 12:34:30 PM1 votes

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The Strengths I can think about for Aurelion Sol are his amazing roaming potential but I think this is outclassed by Taliyah for example.

No way Taliyah match Aurelion Sol in roaming. Taliyah movement speed boost is tied to walking next to walls and is disabled in combat, Aurelion Sol movement speed is not conditional to these things as long as he doesn't change direction Taliyah cross map movement is on her ulti which is, you know, on a typical ulti CD, Aurelion Sol cross map movement is on a spell that has 1/3 to half the CD

Add to that that because of his Outer Limit mechanic you can basically start to channel a stun from across half a map (Q into E), and he is one of the very top of roaming list, while Taliyah is still very good but a notch below

XxxLumberJackxxX3/10/2017, 2:27:36 PM1 votes

They are bored of playing twisted fate and taliyah is like A sol but weaker

SilverSlayer4253/12/2017, 5:43:15 AM1 votes

he has really good roaming, and as he tends to build brusier-y (about as tanky as you can get with a lot of ap) he can contribute a high amount of damage over the course of a fight, unless he gets bursted. He also has a pretty good aoe stun, and his ultimate is good at disengaging, especially in jungle. Once he gets Rylai's he has a good amount of slowing potential as well.