Aphelios is difficult, but he needs his numbers gutted.

Whe··3 votes·1,890 views

Unpopular opinion, but I think Riot did a pretty good job at expressing what they wanted to with this champion. He’s all about creativity, deciding quickly on the spot, and experience. I’ve gotten him in Aram a few times before and didn’t really need to think much about anything to nuke everyone, so I didn’t understand in what world he’d be “hard”. I wanted to try to get the most out of him today, and to be fair, now I hard disagree with anyone who says he’s easy. This thing really is difficult, certainly will have a sky high skill ceiling, and I’d even say he might be one of the most creative champions in the game. This is what should shine about him, but right now, he’s a bit like Akali after release. Do whatever, profit. If he just blows whatever load he has, he shouldn’t get a double and get out alive, but die, like a Katarina would if she mindlessly dashed around. He has a unique, interesting concept, which the numbers completely kill and make trying to play around it properly a choice. They're terrible on him for this reason. Make him useless when he's not doing what he's intended to be doing.

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Kazekiba1 votes

Hardest part is memorizing the various ranges and Qs

R is always the same R, the rest is just autos

Whe1 votes

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Hardest part is memorizing the various ranges and Qs

R is always the same R, the rest is just autos

I don’t know, I think his difficulty’s underrated. After playing around with his kit for a bit, I was surprised how much there is to him. Just one set of weapons plus R has about infinity different combos. It'd be as hard to memorize them as it'd be to just freestyle them on the spot. There would be a hell lot of room to mess up with this guy, or not do nearly as much as you could, if he wasn't in the state he's in.

Urbosa1 votes

luckily he just got hit hard with a ton of nerfs, so we should see his dmg plummet and his wr as well (hopefully, LOL)

deadmendontlie1 votes

I mean if you wanted to see a super impactful nerf would be to remove the fact that his r also throws and auto attack when it hits and it can crit. Which btw means if he has hurricane flamethrowers it applies hurricane to so you get the base ult damage plus the explosion plus the auto damage plus the hurricane flamethrowers to. I doubt the nerfs will mean a ton.

Whe1 votes

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luckily he just got hit hard with a ton of nerfs, so we should see his dmg plummet and his wr as well (hopefully, LOL)

That'd be good for him. He kills everyone so quickly now, you barely even get to do anything on him

ZephyrDrake1 votes

people who want champions to be "gutted" shouldn't be talking about balance at all

Whe1 votes

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people who want champions to be "gutted" shouldn't be talking about balance at all

I shouldn't, but every now and then I still do. By "gutted" I meant do a lot less than he does now. English's not my first language.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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Whe1 votes

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you literally said he should be useless. Sorry but that "English is not my first language" excuse is not valid. You knew very well what you were trying to say.

I said he should be useless when he's just tossing abilities around randomly without thought. No champion should be able to do that, especially not one like him. It's ruining what Riot was going for with him specifically.

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