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Riot used Assassin Buff! It was super effective! Aurelion Sol fainted!

Topazium·10/13/2016, 5:23:40 PM·2 votes·862 views

I'm an AurelionSol main.

Sure, sure, yeah, people can say he does almost nothing and can win teamfights by standing still, but that's not the point. Whatever he does, he's still a normal champ that should be balanced and playable.

However, Riot nerfed him a week after they released him. Then they nerfed him again in the summer. And then they nerfed him again recently.

It's enough that without all the nerfs, he was extremely vulnerable to assassins. With the nerfs, it's almost impossible to lane against someone like Yasuo . And if you get ganked? Forget it.

He's just counterable by too much, it seems. From my experience, as soon the enemy mid-laner picks Yasuo , Riven , Kassadin , Zed , MasterYi , Veigar , Fizz , or if the enemy jungler picks XinZhao , Tryndamere , Rammus , or if they pick just about ANY assassin- it seems like lane is already lost.

I understand some of these might be my own misplaying, but for the most part, I know they're very hard counters.

And now, it seems Riot wants to buff Assassins... will there be much point playing him at all if he's countered by such a large group of champs?

18 Comments

Astôlfo10/13/2016, 7:43:11 PM2 votes

Eh, Aurelion was and is already countered by assassins anyways. That's the whole point to his design.

Also, the assassin rework isn't straight out buffs. It's REWORKS. AKA, SHIFTING POWER and CHANGING them.

Balisan10/13/2016, 5:44:02 PM1 votes

You do realize that you can defend yourself from an assassin just by double-tapping q when they close in, right? Zed is especially vulnerable to this. If he ults you in lane, you can Q>Q>R his ass into your tower. If his ult shadow is too far away, he can't warp back to it. There's an ok chance he's out of mobility and a high chance he eats at least one turret shot to the face. On top of that, his ult procs before he can get much more than an E and an autoattack in.

Anyone that gets between you and your tower is asking to be killed.

Pupel10/13/2016, 6:19:47 PM1 votes

What is it about re-works that people think its buffing? They are not buffing assassins they are reworking them so they are not just about blowing people up

nm101010/13/2016, 6:25:21 PM1 votes

Excluding his fotm stint after he got worlds attention, Sol has consistently held a ~65% for people who had 50ish games on him. Having a class that counters him getting some buffs might not be bad.