Why Is Riot Nerfing Aurelion Sol Out of the Blue?

Hes not really underpowered, he just has very large weaknesses that can be exploited. He actually is quite potent when not hard countered.

to be fair is pretty fucking powerful as is.... and thats after a month of him being around the rift and people find how strong he is... Aurelion is a straight forward champ to be honest, which lowers the skill and makes him fairly strong for some effort. His passive and w being really the only odd thing but 1 spell to test with... Q E and R are straightforward and not difficult compared to a lot of champs, and I LIKE THIS. A small new mechanic and existing things instead of every ability trying to do something new... cough.

hmmmmmm..... might I say we have bigger issues? "cough, cough"

Probably so they can buff his W/passive's damage. I would be absolutely pissed if they buffed his damage and he was still able to fly down a lane with a 2 second AOE stun half to three quarters the width of the lane, then following it up with a 4 second slow

Better than buffing him.

6.8 mage update patch confirmed.

If they are nerfing Aurelion Sol, it means that either he currently is over-performing than intended in multiple different circumstances and situations, and/or if he will be over-performing with other changes/update that are also going to come out in the following patches.

Riot test things out in Beta first before they become official, so just slowdown a bit before going on a rant saying he is going to be "nerfed to the ground" before it even becomes official.

Because they're fucking morons and have no idea what they're doing.

I'm not going to say I understand balance issues better than anyone else; but with how Aurelion fares when you know ANYTHING about how to counter him, I can't say I understand nerfing him either.

having played with and against him a few times, and playing him myself, I will say his damage is rather high, and his CC amount is fairly over the average, however if anyone gets within his passive... he dies, flashes, or ults, nothing else really. if his flash or ult is on cooldown, tough luck he dies.

that being said, his ult is rather powerful I suppose, so I could possibly see a nerf... but realistically, I think he's a good example of a balanced design and power level that is getting nerfed too quickly to the point that I really just don't want to even bother putting more time into learning him.

Then this in comparison to the constant Lucian picks, and various other champions that have few or no counterable strategies besides a few specific champions (that if they simply wait till last pick you lose by default) makes me question Riot's decisions on balancing, but I do understand it's a precarious situation with how many champs exist.