What’s up guys it’s me Jeremy!
Aurelion sol is set up for release sometime
next week, and he’s definitely shown himself
to be one of the cooler champions league has
to offer in terms of their character.
And as he comes out, we’re likely going
to see him being played a lot in the mid lane
and in the jungle, but there’s a lot more
to aurelion than just good ganks.
Here are some of my favorite comments, where
I asked what character you guys wish would
be added into league of legends.
Today I want to know who’s your favorite
dragon?
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Anyways let’s get started.
For our first thing we are taking a look at
the concepts for Aurelion Sol’s character
design.
Sure, most of you probably know that he was
heavily influenced by Ao Shin, but his design
had a bit more too it.
When starting with Aurelion’s concepts,
the designers specifically set out to make
his personality distinctive from other dragons
in popular culture, such as Smaug from "The
Hobbit" trilogy and Paarthurnax from "Skyrim".
The primary inspiration for Aurelion Sol's
personality is the Great Owl from The Secret
of NIMH.
Another major inspiration for Aurelion Sol
was actually David Bowie.
Aurelion Sol is intended to appear effortless,
marvellous and beautiful; that everything
he creates is inspired.
There is an element of like this rockstar
arrogance, but that he hopes it feels deserved,
and a lot of that personality was a spin from
David Bowie.
Next up, let’s take a look at some of his
gameplay during to development.
While still Ao Shin, he had an ability that
was kind of like a global Resonating Strike,
where Ao Shin would send a storm cloud in
a target direction that marks enemies hit
- with the ability to reactivate the ultimate
to dash onto the target as a massive bolt
of lightning.
Riot actually is quoted for saying that that
specific ability showed enough promise that
it may be resurrected at some point in the
future.
Aurelion Sol at one point also had a really
elongated body, which Riot described as 10-12
Teemos in length.
With this champion model, players naturally
wanted to snake between and coil around your
opponents that, while interesting gameplay,
ultimately meant the champion either had to
be fast enough to actually overtake his opponent
and/or durable enough to survive trying, and
was found to be weak and unsatisfying.
There were also a lot technical issues with
that model, especially when he was stuck in
bushes or figuring out how he would interact
with the fog of war.
At number 3, we’re looking at Aurelion Sol’s
eventual gameplay design.
Although Riot wanted Aurelion to be a character
with a unique story and personality, his gameplay
kit is far from it, and actually takes design
from some other sources.
His finalized kit in game takes a lot of inspiration
from Calamity from Heroes of Newerth, and
Io the wisp from Dota 2, both of which were
released more than a year ago.
Calamity has the 3 stars kind of thing but
instead of stars they’re dragon’s circling
her, while Io the wisp has a similar ability
that summons spheres of energy around it.
I don’t think that’s a bad thing though.
Both Calamity and Io have awesome kits, and
it’s not uncommon for MOBA games to take
inspirations or designs from champions in
other games of the same genre.
As long as it’s not a direct copy, which
with Aurelion Sol specifically, it certainly
isn’t, and developers do this since it often
times makes development a lot easier, and
at this point it’s kind of something that
every game does to some extent, so you can’t
blame Riot entirely for hopping on that train
a bit more.
At number 4, we’re taking a look at the
voice actor.
Aurelion Sol is voiced by Neil Kaplan.
I’ve always thought voice actors were a
super underappreciated part of a champion,
since they really add so much to the character
to help bring it to life.
Neil Kaplan also voiced characters like Tychus
in Starcraft 2, as well as various characters
from Bioshock Infinite, the Last of Us, and
Star Wars the Old Republic.
He’s an awesome voice actor and I think
he did a fantastic job with Aurelion Sol’s
voice lines.
And speaking of voice lines for number 5 we’re
gonna dive into that realm a bit more.
Aurelion’s voice over is awesome, and he
has a lot of really unique interactions and
quotes that take place in his kit.
Some of my personal favorite involve lines
from when he attacks dragon (PLAY VOICE LINE
- "I did mean to call you back, but stars
needed forging."), A voice line on entering
the enemy base (PLAY VOICE LINE - "May I enter?
Just joking - star dragons don't need permission."),
a line upon taunting any champion with a dragonslayer
skin (PLAY VOICE LINE - "You're out of your
league."), a line when killing an enemy champion
with a star (PLAY VOICE LINE - "Starstruck?"),
and my personal favorite, a voice line when
he gets a pentakill (PLAY VOICE LINE - "Well,
that was easy.").
For number 6, let’s take a look at some
of Aurelion Sol’s lore.
Aurelion Sol once graced the vast emptiness
of the cosmos with celestial wonders of his
own devising.
Now, he is forced to wield his awesome power
at the behest of a space-faring empire that
tricked him into servitude.
Desiring a return to his star-forging ways,
Aurelion Sol will drag the very stars from
the sky, if he must, in order to regain his
freedom.
One of the things I think is the coolest is
that Aurelion Sol is a cosmic being capable
of creating and destroying stars with the
flick of his fingers, which makes him one
of the most powerful beings in the entire
League of Legends universe.
But despite his immense power, Aurelion Sol
points out himself that his kind is not immortal.
And Aurelion is presonally enslaved to the
will of Mount Targon, who have figuratively
clipped his wings.
Aurleion holds Targonians, especially Pantheon
with a lot contempt as a result.
And at number 7, let’s talk about some of
the more interesting gameplay mechanics that
Aurelion brings to the table.
First off, Aurelion Sol's Starsurge has the
longest potential range of any non ultimate
ability, being able to go from one end of
the map to another, making it almost global,
as long as Aurelion Sol is able to keep Starsurge
within the Outer Limit of Center of the Universe.png
Center of the Universe, essentially giving
this ability infinite/global range, and the
potential to make an absolutely massive starsurge.
His Q has a missile speed of somewhere around
600 or so, which means you you can make his
q global with somewhere around 475 movement
speed or so since he gets a small boost in
movement speed from his E and from his Q as
well when standing next to a star, which really
isn’t that hard to get at all, you don’t
have to build some crazy items, just boots
of speed and a ludens echo and you’re pretty
much there already with the passive buffs
Aurelion’s kit will give you.
As well, another thing to note, especially
when playing against Aurelion Sol, is that
his tail is not actually part of his in-game
hitbox at all.
To visually indicate that, Riot made the lower
part of his body semi-transparent, but it’s
still pretty visible, so make sure you aren’t
aiming at that portion of him.
And lastly, it’s important to know you can
see Aurelion Sol's passive circling around
him even though if he’s in a bush, and you
don’t need vision on him at all.
So unfortunaetely for us Aurelion Sol players,
camping inside of a bush isn’t exactly a
good idea, or at the very least, be careful
not to show your passive outside of the bush
you are in.
All in all, Aurelion Sol is an awesome character,
and I mean how can you not think that this
guy is cool, he’s like this huge ass dragon
how awesome is that.
I had a lot of fun trying him on the PBE,
and I’m really looking forward to his eventual
release, here’s to the future!
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