I love aurelion sol.
What a magical champion. His voicelines. His model. Absolutely beautiful.
He was the perfect champion to me. A unique mage. And one that had a very, very tiny pick and banrate. Just perfect. So I mained him.
And maining Sol taught me so much about the game. He taught me how to deal with assassins, because that is the very first thing you need to learn when you choose to main a champion that gets hard countered by these assassins. Every game against Zed, or Kata, I would win because I knew how to punish them when they were weak, and I stomped their bot, top, and jungle with my map presence.
I loved it, what a playstyle.
And then they came out with this shit rework. Why?? Why did they rework him? He was fine as he was. In fact Sol's pickrate went down with the rework - because mains started quitting the champion after it had been decimated. It isn't the same champion. When I picked up Sol, I picked up a roam-heavy, early-midgame focused DPS mage that had a unique playstyle, clear weaknesses, and was super fun to play. Not just another burst mage.
Slowly but surely Riot is gonna rework all of my favorite champions until I have no one left to play. They did it to Sol. They did it to Ahri. They did it to Yuumi. I quit playing two of those three champions entirely because of how fucking bad their changes felt. Who will be next?