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The Aurelion Sol mini-rework is a fucking disaster.

Red Silk·8/30/2019, 8:56:50 AM·41 votes·11,714 views

This failed husk of a champion with a rework that you guys dare to call Aurelion Sol, has gone from one of the most complex and rewarding champions to master to a literal shadow of his former self with none of the rewards.

 The insanity of this rework shook me so hard I nearly got him removed from my champion pool. I tried to be optimistic about the changes, but its nothing but failure after failure of a change being brought on by some idiot who hasn't the slightest clue of what it meant to be a roaming dps mage. With that being said, the fact that you fundamentally changed how Aurelion sol is played, and dubbed it as "changes", and not a FULL FUCKING REWORK isn't even the worst part. Its the fact that every change is done in the worst place possible. 

 The W change from toggle to a spell on cd was bad, then you nerf the damage by 10%? "hurr durr but he gets movespeed" Move speed AFTER the W is used is kinda useless isnt it?? Thats not mentioning the movement speed they took away from his E, absolutely gutting his roaming potential. But dont worry its fine, to compensate for the destruction of all of Aurelion sols reliable roaming, and dps, they left the massive cooldown on his E the exact same. If you're going to fuck me at least put some lube in because this shit hurts and its bleeding.

 Bob the burst mage has little to no wave clear early, gutted roaming, and 0 dueling ability. His home was roaming the map to get shit done. The whole W thing solved nothing and gutted him like a rotting fish, leaving nothing but a maggot filled carcass. Hopefully it doesn't take you 6 months to realize that this whole shit was a mistake, like you did with half the assassin update. But dont worry its fine I bet you'll just find a new champion to gut by a rioter who doesn't know the first thing about the champion.  This shit is a fucking atrocity and I hope you get your shit together.

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15 Comments

Dynikus8/30/2019, 9:42:21 AM16 votes

I keep seeing the same arguments repeated over and over with his rework.

  • bad wave clear
  • worse roaming
  • completely different play style

And I'm just confused what you're all talking about, and can only assume that you haven't really been playing a sol right from the get go.

How do you have no wave clear? Are you not positioning so your w hits every minion? How are your roams worse when you can literally e to either side lane from mid, or from base to either lane? Then with more burst damage and movespeed, and not getting completely cucked by the slightest cc, how are your ganks worse in any way? How is his main identity changed (roaming mage, not dps mage) at all? You still play him in mostly the same way, shove wave, roam, rinse and repeat. You still need to star dance, you still need to time your roams, aim your q properly, etc etc The main difference I've found is build path, as a more damage oriented build works better. Which frankly, given a sol's atrocious scaling, is overall better for him than his old core build.

The only conclusion I can come up with is the people complaining about it never really roamed correctly. Which given the elo most of the complaints I've seen come from, doesn't surprise me. It's a complicated playstyle, and there's a reason a sol one tricks are on average one of the highest elo players.

Handy Sandy 8/30/2019, 2:39:16 PM6 votes

The W change from toggle to a spell on cd was bad, then you nerf the damage by 10%? "hurr durr but he gets movespeed" Move speed AFTER the W is used is kinda useless isnt it??

It's not useless at all. You're supposed to spam his W to catch up or run away to get the ms bonuses. This actually makes it easier to keep people in range of your stars at the cost of mana. His teamfight and skirmishing is the exact same playstyle except you press W more often.

14daysuspensionk8/31/2019, 9:53:37 AM5 votes

Honestly the only thing they should've maybe changed about him was the ult. The ult has always felt so fucking weak with me in terms of damage, plus the enemies have to be sooo fucking close to you for the knockback effect. The rest of his kit wasn't this bad to me.

Troll Slaiyer8/30/2019, 6:06:37 PM4 votes

we call this the' riot rework classico'