Aphelios Clearly needs a nerf.

TheGorillaGuy·12/18/2019, 6:35:48 PM·14 votes·8,532 views

Idk if I'm late to the party on Aphelios complaining or not but this champion is clearly over loaded. He has 5 different guns that kind of make him 5 different champions but better than they are. He is Caitlyn ,Nasus ,Ashe ,Heimerdinger, and Brand , and he does all of them better than they do.

Caitlyn has traps and if an enemy steps on one of those traps (if you land your trap ability) you get a guaranteed head shot with added damage from double your auto attack range. Caitlyn is supposed to be THE sniper of League of Legends. if Aphelios hits an enemy champion with his q he can then auto attack that enemy champion from ANY WHERE IN THE GAME. He is given an infinite amount of attack range on that champion. Caitlyn is only given double her attack range but Aphelios is given an infinite amount. Which is the better sniper?

Honestly I only say he is like Nasus because of the passive life steal but honestly that's a dumb comparison. It would be more accurate to say that Aphelios starts the game off with a weaker item 3072 but it only gets stronger. Like Aphelios just has a item 3072. Maybe if you changed it to work more like item 1083. He could just get a flat amount back that in the early game it would be sufficient lane sustain but the scale should not be strong. Nor do I think it should over heal him into a shield unless he has the rune for it.

Aphelios's Grav Cannon gives him a stronger Ashe passive and after auto attacking somebody just once he can press q to snare that champion from wait for it...an infinite range. The animation of the Grav Cannon places two dark spheres on enemies auto attacked by it. Maybe you can change that animation to one but they can stack. At three stacks {{Champion:523}} can press q to snare you at a limited range. It would still be a good range but not unlimited range please. This change would also cause {{Champion:523}} to play like more of an adc that is still auto attack based. He feels soooo ability based right now. Auto attack once then q, switch, q. Two q's instantly.

Aphelios's Chakram turrets seeeeeeeem fair at first glance but they're not. They have a range that is a LITTLE less than Ashe auto attack range. It only shoots 4 times, but those 4 shots can do a combined total of almost 1,000 or more damage. It has 3 health bars so for majority of the game it actually takes you about the duration of the turret to kill the turret. I really do think the health of these turrets should be reduced to two bars but should be one shot to any melee champion. Thresh would not count as melee. Pretty sure that is a consistent thing in league but just clarifying.

Aphelios's Flamethrower basically gives him a Brand wet dream when combined with his ult. Like Brand has to successfully land an entire combo, including his ult which takes time to bounce from target to target, on the entire enemy team. If Aphelios lands his ult while his flamethrower is in his primary hand he has just successfully landed a full Brand combo but the Brand passive goes off instantly. Not after 3 seconds. Not to mention once Aphelios buys item 3085 he turns into Jinx on steroids.

Conclusion, Riot took 5 champions and an item and turned them into 1 champion. Fun game

13 Comments

Kalienor12/19/2019, 1:15:38 AM6 votes

Omnistone is op because they took most Major Runes and put them into a single one.

Communίst Ult12/19/2019, 1:31:26 AM4 votes

He has 5 different guns that kind of make him 5 different champions but better than they are.

except the fact that he can use only 2 of them at the same time

He is Caitlyn Nasus Ashe Heimerdinger and Brand and he does all of them better than they do.

? except the fact that these champions have a passive and 4 abilities. aphelios can switch weapons, use q and ult. damn

Caitlyn has traps and if an enemy steps on one of those traps (if you land your trap ability) you get a guaranteed head shot with added damage from double your auto attack range. Caitlyn is supposed to be THE sniper of League of Legends. if Aphelios hits an enemy champion with his q he can then auto attack that enemy champion from ANY WHERE IN THE GAME. He is given an infinite amount of attack range on that champion. Caitlyn is only given double her attack range but Aphelios is given an infinite amount. Which is the better sniper?

It's ofc caitlyn. 300/525/750+200% bAD 3500 range ulti is def better than a WHOLE MAP RANGE AA REEEEEE. I bet you won't aa from a greater distance than 1800units more than 5 times a game.

cait also has that AA range whole game long, she can def and siege objectives really hard, and she can recoil 400 units backward, showing enemy and dealing MOAR DMG

Nasus because of the passive life steal

ok he has lifesteal, and a 6% max hp overheal shield using scythe. overloaded weapon.

Grav Cannon gives him a stronger Ashe passive and after auto attacking somebody just once he can press q to snare that champion from wait for it...an infinite range.

it doesn't tho? read her passive

also 1 sec root. his only "hard cc". broken

Why is he a Heimerdinger? cuz of turrets?

It only shoots 4 times, but those 4 shots can do a combined total of almost 1,000 or more damage. It has 3 health bars so for majority of the game it actually takes you about the duration of the turret to kill the turret. I really do think the health of these turrets should be reduced to two bars but should be one shot to any melee champion.

I do agree, but once again, these turrets just do damage. that's all. they hurt. They're not overloaded

Aphelios 's Flamethrower basically gives him a Brand wet dream when combined with his ult

cuz of aoe aa's and ult? Kayle

Like Brand has to successfully land an entire combo, including his ult which takes time to bounce from target to target, on the entire enemy team. If Aphelios lands his ult while his flamethrower is in his primary hand he has just successfully landed a full Brand combo but the Brand passive goes off instantly. Not after 3 seconds.

Brand also ablaze enemies, burning them for 3%max hp, stacking up to 3 times. At 3 stacks, he deals 12−16%+1.5% per 100 AP of their max hp

once Aphelios buys item 3085 he turns into Jinx on steroids.

mind explaining why?

Conclusion, Riot took 5 champions and an item and turned them into 1 champion. Fun game

I've already got a headache from all this stupid stuff, but no, they didn't. Every character with a slow is ashe? Every champ capable of placing a tower is a copy of a heimerdinger? AOE dmg=brand?

I'm more of an opinion that if riot took each of aphelios weapons and made their users 5 separate characters, it would be way better than pushing all of them into one character

To sum up, no, he's not overloaded due to the limitation of the use of up to two weapons at the same time

His numbers just need to be lowered, that's all. Stop using words that are currently popular without knowing what they even mean.

Waka FIocka12/19/2019, 1:07:46 AM2 votes

riot needs to put his edgelord ass on a rocket ship and blast him out of the league of legends galaxy

3TWarrior12/19/2019, 4:39:00 AM2 votes

I looked and he looks absolutely wonky. As an example, with his global ability, if the math is right, it looks like he can do

chakrams : auto attack damage (with crit bonus) + 363% ad (and that gets crit too) + ultimate bonus for 68% AD

so with Infinity edge, he can get 2.25 x (auto attack + 363% AD) + 68% AD (already includes infinity edge for ultimate value) for a total of 2.25 auto + 8.16AD + 0.68 AD for a grand total of 2.25 + 8.84 AD on global

that is majorly messed up and RNG to the max. To put that into perspective, if he invested entirely in AD at level 6 with only infinity edge, he has a 25% chance of doing 1615 damage and that's to each champion hit by the ult in addition to the 125 + 20% AD from the ult itself

now this may just be a misunderstanding by me on poor wording within the abilities, but if that is true, that places it solidly in the ridiculous category, despite how unlikely it is, it's not implausible with the only character that I know of being able to exceed that is Illaoi with a very well executed ultimate and opponents that choose to fight in it

LordGeovanni12/19/2019, 2:17:26 PM2 votes

Thing is 1 they trying to not knee jerk nerf them like they ususally do then the boards cry about you nerfed too fast didnt let anyone get a chance to learn how to play around them and 2 they on vacation ive played this game for at least 8 years and they havent done work in december more than 3 times. yet they always make an excuse of waiting for preseason to 'fix' things

Jamaise12/18/2019, 10:48:16 PM1 votes

Pretty sure he is getting nerfed in next patch

Slitorous12/19/2019, 4:15:00 AM1 votes

Yes he does and the nerf he got was pathetic