Aphelios and how he is mathematically/phsyically unplayable

desired blades·11/25/2019, 5:42:04 PM·1 votes·735 views

Straight to the point - Aphelios is not playable metaphysically. We can mathematically calculate the number of combinations he may have to offer and by my calculations (which may be wrong, please re correct if it is), this champion is too complex for a human being to barely understand. Let me explain:

There are 4 abilities that differentiate depending on his off-hand. Meaning that there are 4 * 5-1 times the amount of unique combinations of main hands and off-hands - which for apes, equals 16 different combos JUST FOR Q. Taking into account, the other 11 abilities (I'm counting his W since it changes his play style and combo patterns drastically) we get a grand total of 27 UNIQUE ability sub-sets within each round! AND THAT'S NOT JUST IT. What about combinations with your ult? In which case you have to take into account, timing, order of skill usage and best possible-outcome achievable in that predicted combo you may have in mind ( And here a majority of the ranked brackets fall under platinum +, correct me if im wrong though)

What will happen when you have to time and co-ordinate between each part of your arsenal at times when you need to switch from gun to a desirable gun? Oh wait you cant, because a) IT CHANGES DEPENDING ON FIRST WEAPON CHOSEN b) YOU METAPHYSICALLY DONT HAVE THE REACTION TIME TO DO SO! Adding a champion with a high-skill floor and an EVEN higher skill-ceiling isnt "gameplay" when only <1 percentile of LoL players can touch this champion (Taking about pros, since apparently they have no "excuse" if a champion is too "difficult").

You already have to be thinking so many things just from playing lane, and playing Aphelios isnt going to help when he has a BEYOND - AND I MEAN INCREDIBLY BROKEN ASF KIT that honestly in my opinion, should never have even been thought of. (ALSO MEANT TO PUT THIS IS GAMEPLAY MB PLEASE RE-POST THERE TY)

4 Comments

TOKYO AKALI11/25/2019, 5:52:15 PM5 votes

wow. now imagine if the average player also had to know and memorize every single champion in the games entire kit, all their combos, play style, and how much damage that champion could do to you with a combo, that has to be thousands, probably millions of combos to remember! this game is mathematically impossible to play.

ModThe Djinn11/25/2019, 5:46:03 PM1 votes

[{quoted}](name=desired blades,realm=EUNE,application-id=A8FQeEA8,discussion-id=YIVfnEQH,comment-id=,timestamp=2019-11-25T17:42:04.785+0000)Straight to the point - Aphelios is not playable metaphysically. We can mathematically calculate the number of combinations he may have to offer and by my calculations (which may be wrong, please re correct if it is), this champion is too complex for a human being to barely understand. Let me explain:

So sure, he's got a lot of specific subsets, but if you know what the primary and secondary weapons do and what the primary and secondary Qs do he's fairly easy to understand, as the effects of the secondary weapon on the Q and the ultimate are super easy to parse.

Pumpedhero11/25/2019, 5:49:55 PM1 votes

I cant wait to play this champion.. He is an extremely versatile champ with answers to every lane phase if played right, his skill floor is high, but so are the rewards for learning said skill floor.

2G TRUCBIZZARD11/26/2019, 11:28:00 AM1 votes

Hi summoner !

I think that you are right, only pro players will be able to play Aphelios with all (or almost all) possibilities he offers.

BUT

League of Legends has various levels, from iron to challenger. And Aphelios will be playable in every single division. Of course, lower elo people won't play him the best way to play him, won't be able to use all the potential he has. But those people will be playing against other people of the same elo, meaning Aphelios players won't have to use 100% of their champion's potential to carry. I personnaly believe this champion is going to be spammed by pro players, because he will be super strong when mastered (and when I say mastered, I mean TRULY mastered, not some random player getting a mastery 7 from some lucky games they managed to play).

What I believe is that Aphelios will be a true way to climb if you are a truly good player, because a good Aphelios player will be able to solocarry games hard, if he uses Aphelios' potential the best way he can, since his ennemies won't be able to outplay him (because of his insane adaptation potential).

Overall, I believe Aphelios will be played and will carry games at every elo, because he may be strong even when a player uses one single per cent of the champion's capacities