Opinion: Aphelios doesn't take as much skill as they say to succeed
Obviously this is just my opinion. I haven't watched THAT much of gameplay regarding aphelios, but for ones that I do see, he seems like another mid/late game keyboard facerolling champ. I do think this champ requires skill to play, and that is focused in surviving/thriving from laning phase and focusing on your weapon switching. But this champion only has 3 abilities, with one being a switch like Jinx's Q gun switch mechanic. So he has Q and R, with different variants. I'm not sure how good he is early played in the hands of a good player, but I think at late game/mid game, you can faceroll and get away with it. I mean, look at this guy's DPS and abilities. Check out SkinSpotlights' vid on him, the combos he can perform is just dumb.
Or maybe I'm just talking out of my ass and Aphelios is incredibly difficult. But currently, it doesn't feel that way. I mean, he was designed by the 2 dudes who designed Yasuo+Zoe and the other designing Qiyana.
First Qiyana, then Senna, then this. God help me