Just coming back to league after a while, I never see Aurelion Sol. What happened to him? High skill cap? Heavy nerfs? Item Changes? Meta unfavorable? I see Taliyah and Jhin pretty regularly so I'm confused as to why Aurelion isn't with them.
The "ZOMG SPACE DRAGON WITH A SUNFIRE CAPE FOR A PASSIVE WOW WOW WOW" novelty wears off quick.
Au Sol isn't played much because he has an extremely high skill floor, regardless of what people like to think. He's an immobile, sustained damage dealing control mage. He's weak to assassins, has very little counterplay potential and just isn't as good of a mid laner considering all of the absolutely broken hard counters he has.
Pre-6 he's essentially a bitch to anyone with a gap closer. I think he's better top lane as a counter to tanks and anyone without an initiation and better as a support with his stun spams and damage output, not to mention crazy peel potential with a Rylais.
Nobody knows how to play him.
How often do you see Azir below plat, anyway?
I'm a sol main and when I first got him dear god did I think he was weak and I really debated why riot would release such a weak champ[, but after investing time into him I realized that he just needs a player that devotes his time into learning how to play him, he really isn't that weak against champs at all if u lkearn to play him
you see 
I've seen her like 5 times since her release
