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Aurelion Sol needs help - possible suggestion

Crow Nebula·12/9/2018, 1:41:04 PM·28 votes·10,799 views

Before Riot touched him, he was already one of the least played champs in the game due to his awkward playstyle, with only a handful of dedicated mains one-tricking him. These one-tricks put all their time and effort into mastering him, slightly inflating his win rate above 50%.

In response, Riot deleted a chunk of his health, exacerbating his nerf with the changes to the Celerity and Time Warp Tonic runes on which he relied. As a result, now even his dedicated mains can't win with him, and they've seemingly abandoned him; Sol has gone from being one of the least played champs on op.gg to being so unplayed that op.gg no longer has enough data for him to even provide any stats.

http://www.op.gg/champion/aurelionsol/statistics

Riot has basically achieved what I thought was impossible: making a cosmic star-forging dragon-Thanos with a gorgeous aesthetic and charismatic voiceover into a champ no one is interested in.

Stat buffs are unlikely to rectify Sol's fundamental problem, which is a lack of options in his kit. So I think it might be time for a small gameplay update.

Personally I'd like to see his E make him untargetable for 1 second on cast (the cooldown on E could be increased by 5-10 seconds at all levels to compensate). This will give him another defence (outside of burning R) against his most frustrating weakness: being completely helpless when jumped on. Since the E's untargetability would be on such a long cooldown (65-45 seconds), it would still need to be managed extremely well, with the player being unable to use it for defence if they've used it to roam. So it wouldn't remove the weakness; just give prudent players the means to circumvent it with good decision-making, and provide another getaway against champs with multiple dashes (which even R is no defence against). Further, it would give the E more general utility, being able to be used with a quick cancel as an evasive manoeuvre in fights, and not just as a one dimensional roaming tool that becomes useless in the team-fighting stage of the game.

18 Comments

AvisPraeda12/9/2018, 9:47:50 PM19 votes

Why not just make his Q instantly reactivatable instead of tacking something onto his utility spell? Right now, it has a lockout window so you can't stun people right on top of you. I think given all the direct and indirect nerfs he's dealt with as of late, it would balance out.

Maddened King 12/9/2018, 8:30:12 PM5 votes

I just want them to revert the 52 Base HP nerf. They already nerfed him with Celerity, removal of GLP and TWT.

Armillus Dynat12/10/2018, 10:20:01 PM2 votes

My 2 cents, Aurelion Sol has to be the most toxic champ to play as in the entire game. I don't mean he is op, or that he will tilt whoever is playing against him, he will tilt whoever is playing him 100% of the time. I have never seen anyone play him in game or in person and not be losing their s*** by the end of the game. He is a poorly designed mess of a champion that is being further ruined for everyone because a handful of people have nothing better to do than play all day. They should just scrap his stupid passive and concede the fact that being that un-interactive in this league is going to breed toxicity. They won't though.

Power Cosmic12/10/2018, 1:21:38 AM2 votes

I enjoyed playing him but he can be countered super hard, is best with a team that understands what you are trying to do, and is a dps champ that cant dps tanks.

Tobykachu12/10/2018, 3:35:34 AM2 votes

And then they fully killed him with turret plating. If you try roaming and don't secure a kill then you're basically giving the enemy midlaner 160-320 gold for free

Warlord Rhinark12/10/2018, 7:11:11 AM2 votes

Just make his Q instant cast.

No need to give more people untargetability.

mack911212/10/2018, 4:14:01 PM1 votes

I just watched two different tier lists on youtube that have him as s tier.... Wtf boards.

Weiner the Pooh12/10/2018, 5:06:09 AM1 votes

"slightly inflated" 54% for 6 patches is not "slightly"

Nevrankroaton12/10/2018, 6:28:10 AM1 votes

I honestly think he need some kind of light rework, not like hard mechanic but just to rethink the way he work so he can be less of a dumbass shoving lane for free and trying to do 134899 roam to have a good impact, and more of a weird DPS champion with huge roaming and good wave control. I think his huge weakness to assassin/gap closer is cool, it make him very unique in his extreme weakness but I think his strength are so kind of... 'lame'.

He is cool, his kit is so different but the way he can be uninteractive and also feel very... not great in what he does, not in term of performance (even though now he is weak) but in term of feeling. Go in some position to shove the lane with W and either you get some weird trade on the ennemy who doesn't get how he must act to punish you, or either you just get poke/all-in like a biatch.

He need some rethinking, either in the way he shove lane or in the way he play his damage part (MS? Q who instant activate? Innate mechanic that him faster or stuff? Bonus damage every three hit by a star? Increasing the size/power of his stars after W is activated for X sec?)

Carteeeer12/10/2018, 1:17:05 AM1 votes

don't know about your suggestion and how that would help him, but I agree 100% that if riot wants to help him the clear solution is to focus on his complete uselessness when someone jumps on him, fixing that problem would help him so much!

seachrome12/9/2018, 11:33:35 PM1 votes

I doubt that will do much. Sol just needs some QoL buffs and some numbers buffs. The awkward q-delay, the loss of his MS boost on any sort of turning, and his relative squishiness early on make him feel annoying to play even at the best of times. There's a lot of stuff that can be done to make Sol feel better to play sure, but he really does need numbers buffs right now.

wolvius12/10/2018, 2:53:19 AM1 votes

I miss the good old days when you could go GLP or RoA. They didnt even succeed in making GLP more popular, it might even be less. Removing the Q lockout as someone already mentioned would be wonderful.