Talk:Aurelion Sol/@comment-25532677-20160710052846/@comment-7463332-20160729130115

If his passive had his W's extra range and damage always, and he didn't have basic attacks, wow would he be painful to play. To CS, he'd either have to use abilities or wade around awkwardly at long range, making him incredibly weak to zone control, which is really bad considering he's already incredibly weak to mobility without his ult. And he'd also not be able to use his shorter range to deal with anything at even vaguely close range without having his ult. Furthermore there would be no way to actively reposition his stars beyond walking. He's fine the way he is in terms of his W, it's indescribably fun just walking around doing tons of damage with your stars, and I cant even think of a thematically appropriate replacement for his W.

Putting his stars' AP scaling on his W as initially suggested is a nice idea though.