Remember that more hotfixs might be coming, Riot might of really overshot the nerf on his W. Just to put it into text here it's this W - Astral Flight Mana Cost: 80/85/90/95/100 ⇒ 50/55/60/65/70 Cooldown: 22/20.5/19/17.5/16 seconds ⇒ 15/14/13/12/11 seconds Q - Breath of Light Bonus Damage: 14/15.5/17/18.5/20% ⇒ 18/20/22/24/26% Hotfix -> W - Astral Flight Q - Breath of Light Bonus Damage: 18/20/22/24/26% ⇒ 8/9/10/11/12% Cooldown: 15/14/13/12/11 seconds ⇒ 22/20.5/19/17.5/16 seconds As you can see, the hotfix literally nuked it into a huge nerf on W even before the buff.

For a few hours we had an almost lore accurate ASol

ASols quest makes me giggle. We have: Sobek vs Anubis. Angels Vs Demons. The serial killer and savant mage-monk. The Alien vs The Predator. Ninjas of Soul and Shadow. The Jailer of Dark Mist vs The Sentinels. And... the cosmic star creating dragon vs a literal infant.

Swish fish really trying to win back pekin lol

37:30 Life lessons from Uncle Dog of Wisdom: - Overthinking isn't bad, it makes you play safe but sometimes it makes you lose opportunities that otherwise you'd got - Pekins Coach: It's easier to teach somebody who tend to overextend. Because it's easier to teach how to limit too risky plays then teach somebody who is too passive that they have to discover their limits Jokes aside I think this is even more valuable concepts IRL then in LoL

Essentially the quest tracks all the stacks you and smolder earn in the time it’s active. Whoever wins the quest gets the total of those stacks divided by 4 on top of what they earned themselves I think maybe there’s a cap on it at some point

ah yes, the conveniently timed asol buffs before his new legendary skin comes out

finally a new video

in my games against smolder they have been building full tank and just destroying my team out of nowhere late game

Guys, the nerfs aren't as bad as they admittedly look at first. Long story short, a smaller increase (from W) to a stronger Q base lessens the nerf's effects and you'll end up losing less Q damage % wise that you'd think. And now that his kit is cheaper, you can use it more. So even if your early W lane contest got weaker from the bonkers 14.3, your ability to contest the lane to scale (instead of winning) is still most likely stronger. You can lane more aggro without losing and you scale better towards late game from doing so.

Hey there! Ima watch it later. But What do You think of Percelain Aurelion Sol? And have a nice day/night~

love ya pekin

18:02 when you finished the quest tou gained about 40 stacks for killing smolder so I’d assume the reward for Asol are stacks based on current amount

The shadow flame seemed to really ramp up the damage on the executes

Not having the burn from liandry's loses you quite a bit of damage from things like your ult and E.

the item that increases attack range works on smolders q wich is op

This explains why I got 700 on an aram game lately. I was wondering how I collected so much.

With changes I’m trying him top as a bruiser. Rylais, rod of ages, archangels, hollow radiance, frozen heart

Yayyy new video

He's back!

Those bard ults were very good tbh

You got quite a bit of stacks for killing smolder around 18min. From 198 to 233, so it's kinda worth I guess.

Was anyone else hoping for a 1 hour asol game? 😅

Would you consider a thresh video this patch?

Gotta love seeing uploaded 50 seconds ago

bruh FINALLY I can get some sleep been refreahing since yesterday

It's kind of funny, because they wanted to change his playstyle a little bit, but Asol was already a pretty strong champ, and the "neutral changes" were basically buffs, to an already strong champ. So he is getting nerfed like 2 times at the same time

Waiting for that Taliyah buffs video

Strange for Riot to encourage going QWE max order when they buffed Asol only to then gut W. Making the QEW max the more favorable max order

They are on their way of doing to aurelion what they already did to aurelion Nice

You get tons more passive stacks for your Q though, so Q does more damage. So the W bonus dmg nerf is necesarry otherwise you kinda get insane bonus dmg twice

They chopped off his dragon balls with the hotfix. RIP in peace.

Much prefer aggressive aurelion over passive aurelion

24:40 so smolder there had a shojin and a riftmaker, him being week doesnt have much to do with the cahmp but rather the build tbh. Also, he wasnt even that fed, 3 kills with some tower plating.

pretty damn good

ohhh this explains why i make them leave lane with 50 stacks, and they reach200 in 5 minutes

got extremely baited at 24:57

ASol Q level 5 quite literally go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

the second game felt more like a RoA angle, but Idk

Smolder is underwhelming because the items this season are broken, but he was designed with those items in mind. Everyone else is balanced around old items, which were limited severely by the mythic mechanism, so they're running roughshod over games with just a bit of headstart. All games are snowbally these days, makes it kinda lame.

God forbid Aurelion Sol doesn't suck for a few hours But Ksante is fine and fun! Haha :D

I always thought your intro was "welcome to nick's commentary"... so your name isn't nick?

How can they buff him and then destroy hes dmg just after a hotpatch hes Q bonus dmg while using W has gone to shit now whats the point of playing him anymore

Rito give me my toggle stars back

#JusticeForAurelionSol

2:20 riot is so clueless. Completely reverting the buffs they made...if only there was a test server they could try these changes on beforehand...

So basically they buffed him for a few hours only to nerf him to the ground and let him in a worse state than he was before, considering his E stacking is weaker?

1:00:28 wtf was karthus doing????

Speaking of scaling champs, I would like to see Pekin play an Ekko game again in the current season.

I don’t get why riot does those super fast hot fixes. People bitch a lot whenever there is a change, cuz obviously nobody knows how to deal with it. But people adapt and then build strategies and manage to counter stuff. If even after people adapted it is still too op, nerf it. If it is too absurdly op, do minor paced nerfs. Don’t just bring it up and then drag it down to the bottom of the ocean

so asol's quest requires him to mercilessly kill a child??????????????????? wtf riot

Asol got gutted and Maokai avoids nerfs again lol I get Asol needed to be nerfed, but they over nerfed him. Mao needs some nerfs... but some how gets absolutely none. Despite the insane Pickrate and Winrate. I really just can't understand the balance team at all

im so confused, is this 14.3 already?

Isn’t crit for adc bad right now?

smolder is so sad

fish

So asol got buffed then hot fixed to be worst than before the buff? So they just made him worst? How does this makes sense

video title say asol got buffed but in ur video u keep saying he get nerfed so he got nerfed or buffed xD

After watching both games, I honestly don't think ASol looked too strong. The second game looked better, but I feel like the enemy team didn't respect you, and they let you get fed early on. Maybe in an "average" game where you don't get fed it would be around the 35 minute mark where you start feeling strong. But like you said, a lot of ASol's value in teamfights comes from the Rylai+Black Hole slow. Just my thoughts as a bronze player. Ok gonna go watch Zwag now ✌

holy I'm early af

Riot is just so comically inefficient. How can a multi-million company with 200 years of character design experience fail like this? So they buff a champion because they thought he was weak, making him OP as hell, so they nerf him back to normal... Okay, that makes sense. But then they nerf him even more, making him weaker than he initially was... so that would mean he wasn't weak the begin with, in fact that would mean the opposite, that his initial state was too strong...?? God I hope a second wave of laid-offs comes a-knocking because Riot needs smarter employees.

pekin babe I love you but you always use the ugliest chromas

Ffs just revert him back to the old Asol. Really really dislike the new kit. It’s so one dimensional and boring.