Why Aurelion Sol Support DOES work and IS good.

Okay, so a lot of the games I go into playing support, people REALLY don't believe that it could work... like, REALLY don't believe it. Now, I could get into how people have this preconceived disposition of what lanes champions should be in and they should ONLY be in those roles, and how stupid that thought process is, but that's for another time. This post is obviously gonna be about what is stated in the title; why is a good support character.

Now, a lot of people's problem with him as a support is that "he's not tanky" ( all say hi) but has the POTENTIAL to be tanky. My build that I usually run on him is: Of course, this build is bound to change because as I get better with the champion I might want to swap something out for something like or but so far, i have won probably 90% of my games and gotten 4-5 S ranks with him. (Of course, I am a bronze player, so take all of what I'm saying with a grain of salt cus I have no idea if this would work in the higher elos.) I've found that, with this build in particular, this build for is very speed control focused. You want to be able to get in quick with your Starsurge to initiate those amazing team fights, or even when the team fight is going on, you want to be able to get there with starsurge before people have a chance to spread out, so that you can get the 2-3 enemy stun possibility.

Let me give you another example of why Sol is viable as support. Tell me if you've heard this one before; and ADC and a support are pushing bot lane hard, when all the sudden a Yi or Udyr sprints out of the jungle, and the ADC has no means to escape () so, the support either has a way to help them escape, or one or both of them end up dying from the gank because of lack of escape. Well, with that is literally no problem at all. As soon as you see that jungler start to make his way out of the river, you starsurge to the left (or right) stun them and retreat. It is literally one of the best disengages I've ever seen and I've saved so many lives with it in my games with him.

All of this, plus the fact that you have a slow/knockback with your ult, PLUS the fact that you have unlimited peeling ability with your passive/W. Now of course, my favorite ADC to supp for with Sol is Jhin, because once you hit your Starsurge, Jhin can hit his snare, and boom, that's 75% of their health gone by the time they're able to move. NOT ONLY THAT, but with Sol in the bot lane, if you're lane is pulling ahead and you see the other team pushing mid, it's just an e away from a good gank, or even better, if the other team is taking dragon, you literally just fly into Dragon with Starsurge (if your team is close to back you up of course) and stun every person in the pit, giving your team a very good contesting opportunity. There are SO many reasons I've found Sol Support to work. I'm just tired of people not acknowledging that it's a possibility, and I'm trying to get the word out so people can stop complaining when I do it and saying "Sol's a jungler and a mid laner and that's it..." You know what I say to them? Yeah, and Lulu used to ONLY be support...

EDIT: 3/29/2016 - 11:42 AM

As of right now, my new build for Support Sol is So i'm going to be trying this build out for a couple of days. Thank you to everyone who threw in their two cents on this post, and everyone who will continue to do so! To address some of the major problems some people have brought up with Sol Support:

1. Stealing CS with passive - I agree that, if the person is not that great at the champion, their positioning is going suck and they might end up taking a lot of CS. HOWEVER, with someone who is an experienced Sol player, they would tend to stay aware of where their passive is at all times. In fact, this isn't just crucial for supporting, but being aware of this is crucial to jungling, farming, zoning, ect. So, if the Sol player doesn't pay attention to where their passive is, they're just not going to be a very good Sol player.