LOL - The biggest failure of Riot turns 6: A more disappointing champion review of history
You may remember it as a recent launch, but six years ago that Aurelion Sol arrived at League of Legends as a new champion. The Dragon promised by Riot Games and expected for years took the relay of the knowledge and canceled Ao Shin to become the star forgeler. A character able to submit to him even what transcends human knowledge. The most powerful being according to the Lore and the one that we still consider as the greatest failure of Riot Games when it comes to creating a character.
The champion that the community waited for years
Making a quick review at the statistics of this dragon, the truth is that he has never been a bad champion in terms of performance. However, he has a flat encephalogram regarding the interest of the players. In each of the lists we have made reviewing which are the least popular heroes he has been competing for the first positions and he has celebrated him the birthday of him just as always. Attending to all qualifying ranges, is only chosen by 0.5% of headings . Skarner, which has been chosen to receive a REWORK, is the only least popular and the difference is 0.04%.
The figures would be pairmen for any champion, but even more still for one already released at a time in which League of Legends was governed by more modern design rules and there was no pressure to launch a character every two weeks. Nor are they acceptable for the one who was the most anticipated champion in the history of the game. Mayo Shin do not tell him anything to the players who were recently incorporated into the title of Riot Games, but it was a real legend for those who started playing in the second or third season we spent years listening to talk about him.
Why did Aurelion Sol failed?
Riot Games usually point out that the monstrous champions generate less interest in the community than those with humanoid forms. However, Aurelion Sol failure can not be explained from this design perspective. We all want to play an intergalactic dragon capable of invoke stars. However, There are several problems regarding the gameplay that seem to explain the great failures of a character that was simply too powerful for himself and had some mechanics who felt a little awkward for many players.
When Aurelion Sol launched himself he was able to do too many things. Even without defensive tools (that was the great handicap of it) I managed to push the line with an overwhelming facility to move instantly by the map and generate numerical superiority forcing the rival to remain under a tower permanently. This was obtained from the first level of the game resulting in a large number of alternative strategies. He was very attractive to the players in organized games and those who dedicated the sufficient hours to learn all the possibilities.
However, this same situation was the one that put the first nail in the coffin. The high power of Aurelion Sol in good hands soon meant a rain of nerfs that left him ridiculous until Riot Games assumed the blow of grace causing his W (celestial expansion) could not be active. All because of an excessive mobility that held the practice of his power budget and who has entailed nerfs to similar champions such as Taliyah or Twisted Fate.
This situation was added to A unique gameplay pattern that did not have just accommodated the players . The character had no mobility, but he was obliged to keep the distances to inflict a very difficult amount of harm to control and significantly lower than that of the rest of the magicians. Something that, as soon as he stopped compensating because of the constant nerfs to the statistics of him, caused him to fall into the deepest of oblivion. Even in competitive, where he had the good moments of him, he has fallen into oblivion: he has not appeared once in the last and a half season.
With the sixth birthday around the corner, rumors begin to reach a possible rework that changes some of him and convert him into the champion he had to be. However, it seems one of the most difficult projects to have League of Legends if it decides to assume it. Returning a failure of such dimensions is nothing simple , although we would like nothing more than justice for which it must have been one of the most exciting champions of the game and whose only contribution has been to put on the table the technology that It allowed to improve the queues of other characters.
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