Can we give Aurelion Sol a close aoe slow and tiny dps when W is activated?

Bellows·8/17/2017, 3:26:36 PM·7 votes·1,266 views

Seriously, Riot said they want every match up to have some counter play to it, but champs like this are too hard to fight against. Especially Akali with her THREE dashes, I dont have enough peel in my kit for that. Ahri Akali Talon Kassadin

I figured a small aoe slow in close melee range would help him in a small minute way to kite if he cant have double tap Q.

So when you W and your stars go out, there remains a small galaxy-like swirl that slows and does sunfire-style damage and applys a slow good enough to put enough distance between you and the opponent to land a Q if youre good.

He needs something more to peel and outplay in more 1v1 senarios. This doesnt make his teamfighting stronger, more or less improves his 1v1 and assassin lanes.

23 Comments

Stars Shaper8/17/2017, 4:24:12 PM5 votes

Honestly I don't think Sol needs buffs.

fééd l0rd8/17/2017, 5:04:56 PM2 votes

HAHAHAHAHA boards balance

Grizzlpaw8/17/2017, 5:25:55 PM2 votes

Sol is too strong right now to receive buffs, I'd even argue he's broken or near broken in his current state. Giving him buffs would make easy matchups such as Lux Xerath Velkoz Yasuo ect. extremely oppressive from the enemy's standpoint. Especially in Yasuo's case where he'd have no hope of sticking onto you after running out of minions to gapclose to.

Even in his bad matchups, he's been known to put in work. Earlygame corrupting pot cheese lets him bully Kassadin hard pre-6. Even if you don't kill him you should be able to shove him in with ease and get your botlane ahead enough that your team can then take dragons, mid tower, top tower, and so on to the point that his matchup advantage doesn't matter. Same deal withAkali.

Talon Is a tricky matchup to get to grips with at first, but, just like zed, all you have to do is get Tabi + 2 cloth armors and play like a pussy in the early levels and he honestly has little hope of killing you. He can somewhat keep up with you in roams, but in teamfights you put in so much more work than him thanks to your safety, cc, peel, zoning, and AoE dps. I'd honestly argue that Sol wins this matchup so long as you don't get cheesed.

Ahri Is annoying, but you can still outpush and out roam her and aim to be more useful in teamfights.

tl;dr: You can't lose your lane if you're not in your lane.

If anything sol needs a nerf rather than a buff, but Riot has stated that they're reluctant to nerf unpopular champions because the majority of the community doesn't view them as a problem. To the vast majority of the community it would seem as if Riot is kicking an irrelevant champion while they're down.

Hexs Fortune8/17/2017, 5:16:37 PM1 votes

I'd like his ult to apply grounding for X amount of seconds

crzymdscntst8/18/2017, 10:55:40 PM1 votes

I think they should just switch his ulti and W or E, from a briefest of gameplay with him... making his ultimate less powerful, sure, but allowing him to put distance between him and an opponent on a more frequent basis.

But that really would probably not be a good thing in the longer run. Neither for him as a champ in terms of balance of his power or for his players.

I also when playing him wanted to be able to draw the stars in closer at times, so that would be another shift to his gameplay that would compensate without gutting him... just giving him a range manipulator all around.

LyingOnLine8/18/2017, 11:14:09 PM1 votes

"Can we give Aurelion Sol buffs so that the sole counterplay to him doesn't actually mean shit anymore for no reason?"

Sure, just as soon as we nerf everything else.

NA Darklarik8/17/2017, 4:21:11 PM1 votes

I like this idea. It would be nice if his stars when not expanded provided some sort of slow.

Either way i think his stars should just deal more damage upfront. Too many champs can just outdamage and shit on him without him being able to do anything about it.

Bellows8/18/2017, 11:20:17 PM1 votes

nah youre all just shit at balancing, like riot is.

Akali Prime8/17/2017, 4:26:40 PM1 votes

i main aurelion sol and i agree. Its hard to play him in a game where 80% of champions now days counter him because everyone has a dash or some sort of cc

Bellows8/17/2017, 4:33:38 PM1 votes

Bump so more people see this