So what's the counterplay to aphelios?
https://gfycat.com/ImprobableBigGrouse
It really feels like you lost all senses of what counterplay is since a long fucking time ago, and you releasing yuumi/sylas/pretty much every recent designs just to gut them and leave them at 40% win rate because of how toxic they are proves that.
Let's talk about aphelios and the play you see right there Aphelios does not put points into his spells, Q and R are leveled without you doing anything, DOES THIS FUCKING SOUND RIGHT TO YOU? yea because you know what? instead he puts points into stats and get 26 ad and 18% free armor pen instead. And his ult is a 1000 range ziggs ult which also allows him to autoattacks everyone caught in it. So since he's an adc, he builds like an adc, and he gets bonus free stats from his kit, if a late game aphelios hits you with his ult you die.
sounds fun right? Because to riot game, dodging a spell is enough counterplay and provides enough fun for both parts. It's not like every single broken champions in the past like zoe or nidalee had skillshots
what if aphelios has sena with him? what if she uses her E? you can't see him casting ult and he's just going to catch you offguard.
"but, he has less spells than a normal champion when he fights"
WRONG, WRONG AGAIN
His Q costs 10 amo, and has 6 sec cd without cdr at lvl 9, and he can switch with an other weapon to instantly uses Q again. This means he has 2 Q, W, and R.
and if he runs out of amo on both weapon, he can fucking queue 4 Q in a row
https://gfycat.com/DifficultJampackedErmine
does this sound fun and interactive to you?
if an award of worst design team in the world existed, it should really belong to riot games.