Talk:Aurelion Sol/@comment-24613667-20160717085514/@comment-25532677-20160717191336

He's not as squishy as you might think as long as you're building the correct items on him. RoA, Rylai's, Liandry's.

He basically functions as a better Singed. He loves being chased so he can kite people around while the enemies don't realize how much damage they are actually taking. The only difference is Ao Shin can effectively chase as well thanks to the given range of his W. Your E's passive is good for chasing people since they won't be attacking you and you'll be moving in, generally, a straight path. Getting a large Q isn't as important as one might think. Sure there are some game-winning moments where you stun the entire team and win the teamfight, but generally just hitting a Q on one or two of the right people is good enough. His E is good for getting to Top and Bot lane quickly. Master his roaming and you will see how useful his E actually is. His ult has a lot of use too, I think you're kind of underselling it. It's his only disengage, and helps peel targets off of him. Not only that he can do a nasty combo where if a target is right on top of you, you can throw your Q, press R, and then they'll be pushed back into the Q for you to detonate it.

He does have his weaknesses though. For instance, He may be the ONLY champion that's basic abilities can't be used on top of him. The fact that his Q has one of the, if not, slowest missle speed in the game at a whopping ~600. He has an abysmal damage curve. Almost no damage for the first 10 mins of the game, his passive's AP scales liniarly with levels so even if you do get ahead early you won't be at your fullest potential, Requires about 3 items to really start popping off. W has in insane mana cost and yet is effectively ~%70 of his damage ouput. E is practically useless until two points, and has a super long CD and can't be used in combat. R makes up his only disengage tool so you kind of need to save it for that reason. Any champion that can jump right on top of him ( See = Any Literally any chapion with a dash/blink. a.k.a. %80 of the popular midlaners right now.) and is like cutting through wet toilet paper to AD assassins, but you eventually get used to it and learn how to play the matchups.

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-history/NA1/216209896?champion=136

He's probably my 2nd favorite midlaner to play (Veigar will always be my first.) And I actually find him to be lots of fun to play. In one game I 1v4'd their team, no joke. He's just a champion that requires a lot of practice to master and it's very frustrating to get to that point so most people don't bother.