Talk:Aurelion Sol/@comment-27695516-20160223064450

Guys stop making random judgements. If you actually read all of riots blog posts you would know how they work internally. Riot is actually pretty transparent about its workings.

1) Riot admitted they introduced Ao shin too early and everything else they could possibly be blamed for.

2) As far problems with Ao shin go

Lets begin with the lore, his lore was was introduced (Udyr comic) before his kit or even the model was developed. Thats made things very specific and very narrow for the team. They had a framework and thats what they had to develop the champion over. And if there were any problems, there was barely any going back or deviating from the frame work. It makes development terribly hard. Bare in mind that they could have delivered a sub-prime Ao shin with a broken/useless kit or model.

Secondly, the model. They wanted a serpentine model. Anything else wouldnt fly, they had ideas about giving Ao shin a global kit or even letting him attach (coil around players). Problem with the model? if you dont make a serpentine model carefully. You get a long af model where hitbox dont mean shit. Imagine landing nidalee spears on a moving anivia wall? think you'd miss? Given that, they would have to give Ao shin something nasty to compensate and thats where the unhealthy gameplay scenario comes from.

Lastly, consider the bugs. Ao shin was iceboxed almost as quickly as he introduced. Only way to deal with him was to radically change him. Thats means coming up with scratch. Riot had to deliver a dragon champion because it promised one so they couldnt exactly ditch the idea. And they're making good to their promise.

I'm just glad we finally have a dragon champion. That makes lore interactions much more interesting. Wonder if he'd hate shyvana like other dragons do