Riot I BEG YOU, PLEASE GIVE US A SOL SKIN THIS YEAR

Emperør Rhaast··1 votes·4,114 views

Have us Sol mains not suffered enough? Truly? Having our champion nerfed and nerfed, then reworked, causing the mains to become split and a good 60% of his playerbase, some high elo streamers, to quit, and then nerfed AGAIN.

Just to top things up, we receive absolutely ZERO skin love. Our only skin since release in March 2016 was Mecha, a generic, ugly skin that was bugged and Pay2Win on release. Mecha Sol is not Sol at all. On his other two skins, booping enemies with your stars feels satisfying thanks to the sound effects. On Mecha the sound effects are clunky, the skin in general is clunky, his Q and R are so basic with 0 effort or love put into making them, his W and passive are just the laziest assets I've ever seen on a skin, his E looks alright but again, they could've made him turn into a rocket or something, but they chose to go the lazy route instead. His recall also sucks. The only reason this skin is worth buying is for the chromas. I genuinely regret putting money into this skin, but I know if I didn't who knows how long it would be until Sol's next skin.

The model is ugly too, it does not look like Sol. Ashen Lord turns Sol into a beautiful fire dragon, but he is still Sol. Whatever Mecha Sol is, it isn't Aurelion Sol.

His ethereal legs being missing is horrible too. It makes him look horrific. He looks too big and heavy - Sol is meant to be light, almost ethereal, and beautiful. That skin doesn't match that. Sometimes when walking, Sol will do a little barrel roll. On his other 2 skins, it looks pretty and graceful. On Mecha, it looks extremely clunky and out of place.

The voice filter is also absolutely horrendous and the biggest reason I don't use this skin. Sol's voice is wonderful to listen to. Mecha sol's voice filter is horrid. Some of his quotes slow down and it's so out of place. Clearly they were trying and failing to make us feel loved by placing a horrible voice filter on the skin.

In all, Sol only really has 2 usable skins. And he has a LOT of skin potential that just isn't being brought out. You said the bar for him getting skins has been raise with his rework. So I BEG you riot games, please, just give us 1 skin this year, and don't let it be yet another skin that is outclassed by his base skin. There are infinite skin concepts for him. Dark Star. Elderwood. First Star. Death Sworn. Atlantean. Program. Blood Moon. Firecracker. (He is a drake - a dragon with four legs and no wings. That is exactly what a typical Chinese dragon is. I really hope we'd get this for 2024.)

Even a legendary skin where you make him a storm dragon or give him wings. I will take anything. even a meme Aurelion Sol Aurelion Sol skin where his stars are mini aurelion sols. Do SOMETHING, Riot, please.

10 Comments

mrmeddyman1 votes

I've buried him a while ago. Riot blew it when it comes to Sol full-stop. I don't expect anything to be done about it in a time-frame that I'll still be playing the game so having any sort of hope just isn't feasible for me.

GreenKnight1 votes

Riot cannot even give us working forums. What makes you think that they will do a skin for one of the most underplayed characters?

Emperør Rhaast1 votes

|He isn't that underplayed anymore. That was the point of the rework. He has tons of potential and is easier to play now.

Shmeeve1 votes

They did say, prior during the mecha kingdoms event, that there will be another Asol skin this year. That's all I remember.

TheCherryPi1 votes

AurelionSol item 3070

Sukishoo1 votes

120 skins for this year, so it's possible he could be there.

Emperør Rhaast1 votes

Yet they failed to even mention his name among the many unpopular champs they promised skins for. Unless his winrate is too high, Riot seems to forget Sol even exists.

Sukishoo1 votes

Well he already got his promised skin in 2018, so they were still going down the major list of those that hasn't seen them. However, with 120 skins planned for the year there is still a possibility

Emperør Rhaast1 votes

Yeah, a promised skin that ended up being buggy and Pay2Win on release. Now it's Pay2Lose because his E indicator is close to invisible. Not to mention the fact that it's clunky, ugly, has bad hitboxes, terrible sound effects, horrific voice filter, overall lazy design, and is unusuable without chromas. They gave sol an ugly, generic mecha skin, when there are so many beautiful skin concepts for him out there. We deserve more after repeatedly having our champ gutted. Once they make just 1 skin for Sol that is worth using over the base skin I will be happy.

Sukishoo1 votes

I use it, on the little I play of him and find it quite nice. Hated some of the concepts that people wanted like Dark Star as that would be lazy and nothing really new for him. Basically like the copout they made for Xerath this year when there are plenty of other things to do with him as a champion as well.

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