Rip: Ao Shin the Dragon that Never was

Xodiathe4bdn1·12/31/2016, 8:04:24 PM·7 votes·1,821 views

now that Aurelion Sol has long been released and played , it can almost be safe to say ao shin is now off the table. Don't get me wrong I've tried aurelion and he is an awesome champion to play , but i had a lot of hype for ao shin. The only fleeting hope is that when the Ionia storyline is released , riot may consider redoing ao shin again. But what ya going to do As we end the new year let us send off an awesome champion concept http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/5/57/AoShin_ConceptArt.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160307222951 http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/d/d5/AoShin_Concept.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130908110634 Goodbye ao shin Hello future champions Of 2017

20 Comments

morris112/31/2016, 8:44:13 PM4 votes

Feels

http://i.imgur.com/Yn361nK.jpg

Leo102412/31/2016, 8:26:41 PM3 votes

they should've released ao shin tbh, sol is such an akward champ in terms of matchups, he either does decent or gets destroyed in lane which sucks

however ao shin with his tornado thing and his flame/wind breath shown in the images would've fit a lot better in the game than sol who is entirely reliant on his passive and positioning

1wolfpack12/31/2016, 8:19:42 PM2 votes

legit riot should go the year without adding any new champions and concentrate on improving the client + game + bugs etc

Stars Shaper12/31/2016, 9:48:03 PM2 votes

https://pics.onsizzle.com/Facebook-Ao-Shin-meets-Aurelion-Sol-2e359a.png

Wind Whistler1/7/2017, 4:57:48 AM1 votes

Whoever was working on Ao Shin was extremely incompetent. They had 3 years to work with him, and for some reason they decided he had to be rushed all of the sudden, which is why Aurelion Sol happened and why his kit is so bad.

Voidzilla1/1/2017, 2:34:18 AM1 votes

I like Aurelion Sol as he is. He has a good visual, interesting story, and unique gameplay. That said, I still would've at least liked Aurelion Sol's release skin to be like Ao Shin. Something like Traditional, Ionian, or Strombringer Aurelion Sol to pay homage to this.

GreenLore1/1/2017, 5:23:02 PM1 votes

They actually clarified in a riot post that Aurelion Sol IS Ao shin,or rather what Ao Shins concept eventually turned into(they actually made a thread about this before Aurelion Sol was officially announced) and I think they even mentioned this again in Aurelion Sols champion insight.

Something like that happens all the time,I mean this was the original concept art for Braum: http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/3/31/Braum_CeeCee_pre-concept.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150307164955

And nowadays Riot generally wants every champion to have a unique theme of their own,so Aurelion Sol isn't a chinese dragon from the roster,but he is THE chinese dragon,meaning its pretty likely that there'll be never other chinese dragon-champions in the game.

Really the best thing you can hope for is an Ao shin-skin for Aurelion Sol,kinda sad that they didn't do that for lunar revel.

Awhegark12/31/2016, 8:54:47 PM1 votes

People are so dumb. Ao shin was never gonna get released so they gave us a half assed version of him and called it a dragon. Well guess what nobody even remembers him, and much less calls him a dragon.