aurelion sol

so i found this on reddit and i though i would see what you guys think of aurelion sol. personally i think this guy is 100% right and the champ still need so work. what are your thoughts?

"Weak in the mid lane. His passive does not work as a last-hit mechanism against anyone who outranges his outer ring... which is a lot of champions. He is entirely dependant on Ryali's to land consecutive passive hits, except that he has to get gold to buy one, which he cant do, because he gets outlaned by any mage or assassin.

His Q is average and entirely avoidable. If he casts it in vision of you, walk sideways and it misses.

His W needs a higher cost-per-second and no startup cost, and a fixed toggle CD (1 second). His already weak lane is completely crippled by having to commit to multiple seconds of W lest he waste mana. If he could pulse it, he would be viable.

E is fine, but not impactful because it isn't fast enough. Steps to avoiding Aurelion E Q ganks: 1) Cast a long-range damage spell. 2) Spam laugh when his star blows up short cause his flight got interrupted.

His R is fine, its super easy to hit (i.e. you must blink or become untargetable to not get hit) and a good self-peel, but the damage is average. The long cooldown means that guys like LB and Fizz will just eat him for breakfast.

Seriously, for someone who is so range-limited, he does almost no reliable damage. Might as well pick Ryze or Annie, who at least have targeted CC as compensation for their low range. Not to mention damage!

My suggestions are:

Passive: remove the execute, add 15 base damage. It shouldn't be a last-hit tool, it should be a harass/waveclear tool. Possibly lower the base @18 but increase the scaling so that an AP build is actually worth it.

Q: Limited, but balanced. Maybe the CD should come down with levels, but this spell is not his weakness.

W: As I said, it needs to be like Karthus E* toggle or it is useless until maxed. Damage is fine.

E: Speed should scale with distance traveled (effectively with rank, since you get more distance with each rank). A limited and avoidable ganking tool, it is basically like Rek'Sai ult in that its primary purpose is to get back to farming faster.

R: Boring, average, but not his weakness. CD compared to higher-damage spells (LB and Fizz) makes me think he has no strengths.

There is no reason to play him over any other mage right now."