HIS SISTER BECAME THE MOON!1! Which is rough, buddy.

Aphelios: my name is not important ... Alune: his name is aphelios, stop being so edgy big brother

That flower just sounds like some weird bone hurting juice. That's what they shouldve called it

I wish they had given Aphelios voice lines. Like, sure he can't talk, but he can still speak in his mind. We, as the player, could hear them "talking" to each other in way of inner monologue. Right, now the champ should really just be called Alune & Aphelios' husk. Also, I think it would have been nice if some of the animations showed us Alune (the spirit form), like during their ult or maybe during an emote, where they'd be "talking" to one another. Just feels like they could have done more with this champ (these champs).

So we all agree that aphelios needs a color story where HE is the internal narrator at least. Also i get the feeling aphelios sacrifice is higher than alunes but tbh one could argue alune is in solitary confinement and that is horrible too. They should also focus on the sacrifice they both make.

Imo the concept is well done, but Aphelios being mute only detracts from their relationship while not bringing anything to their story. It would be better to highlight how much Aphelios and Alune want to be together even when they have to be seperate. The relationship is too one sided when all Aphelios can do is just kill people, makes him look super psychopathic instead of a victim of loneliness.

So Aphelios (Alune), Leona, and Nami are all looking for Diana. Diana, what have u been doing? lol but this seems like it could be used to create a really great narrative for the Lunari and Solari (and Nami's people). I hope we get more progression in this "Hunt for Diana" story.

Tbh I think that they should've saved Alune for another time, and she could've been a support. That way, we would have three Lunari champions and not just two. Besides, Alune herself looks pretty interesting and coud have perfectly been an individual champion.

Wait, why couldnt a story start with aphelios talking to himself and being looked at weirdly (ostracized as a perfect weapon( gaara)) then when he spots his target he drinks the poison and he can explain how much it hurts and then alune chimes in and we get her view. Bonus points if we have another character or champion get to know aphelios before the poison but are surprised after he drinks the poison. so we end up having aphelios, alune, and a 3rd person view on the character as a whole.

"curved scimitar" The adjective there seems unnecessary. Since a scimitar is, by default, a curved sword.

Someone needs to animate how skyen explains these lores man

I think Aphelio's is supposed to be a weapon only. He has given up everything to become a totally focused weapon for the moon and nothing else. Top that with the nonstop constant pain, i can understand why he isnt exactly the most emotive character.

A translucent image of alune appears whan aphelios dies as well as when he respawns I think

the flower doesnt just mute him .It's completely husked when he has the flower within him. Alune is puppeteering aphelios, and aphelios is responding by acting on instict, from all the years on training only to murder. I think it was really important to explain the emotional and physical status of aphelios, because he probably doesnt remember much of what happens. Alune sees for him , send him the weapons in the right position for him to react and posibly continues to kill with it as long as someone is making a noise or a sudden move. I wanted this guy to have more depth, but yea, alune got the spotlight. Is frustrating

14:40 sums up all my problems with kindred's gameplay , kindred are both lamb and wolf , but gameplay wise the wolf is represented as just a side character , sure the design does not focus only on the lamb , but with their lore being the most interesting to me for 2 reasons , them being the mystery of death itself and the contrast between wolf and lamb , its really sad knowing the gameplay being so focused on lamb that ppl not knowing the lore think kindred is just the lamb

Okay good to know that his lore is as complicated as his kit...

I'm disappointed that it's not Aphelios and Alune. They are actually pretty critical to each other. Nunu and Willump and Kindred (lamb and wolf under 1 name) both have names based on their duo and these two deserve it too.

I do wish you’d’ve taken him into practice tool to really feel his animations. All the animations between swapping weapons, auto attacking, idling, hasting & using abilities are just so wonderfully done. It makes playing the character feel so satisfying. Also, although he isn’t very expressive, he does make some sounds. Sometimes he will make this very deep huffing, as if he’s really trying to concentrate through the pain. When you take damage, sometimes he will do a prolonged, very pained huffing & grunting, & the voice actor for him really sells the character’s feeling. Another nice thing is when you are 1/3 HP, Alune will say very sombrely ‘Phel, you’re hurt’. The voice acting & animation really tell a lot about the characters. On a sadder note, in different languages Alune’s voice actress changes while Aphelios’ remains the same, indicating we will probably never get any speaking lines from him.

I love this boy. He’s all broody and emo, but still has kinda goofy animations. I like his animations, they’re lively

T B Skyen : *explains depressing story* *also plays Zoes theme*

For the face in his joke "That feel when your sister says she is dating a Solari"

Ok so this is pretty unrelated to the subject, but "alune" (if you pronounce the "e" at the end like "eh") means "peanuts" in my language. I realised that when I was telling my friend about the new champ, and she gave me this look, like "This is seriously how they named their champion?" and I was like "Oh shit, her name is "peanuts" !".

20:06 Daymn,Aphelios got us :/

Top 5 surprisingly good character designs might be fun. And because you're you, and you are able to make this sort of thing entertaining, top 10 smear frames of 2019.

I never clicked so fast. Have a nice holiday Skyen! I have a huge problem with Aphelios's color story though. Just like you. We didn't got any insight into his personality. I still don't know ANYTHING about his thoughts and feelings. I also wanted to see how he interacts with his sister. They can talk in their minds right? Alune could have asked: "How's the sky today?" To tell us that she is isolated. Aphelios could have wanted Alune to sing to him so he wouldn't feel alone, since he has that in his champion theme. Instead what we got was... he just murders everyone for his faith. Yeey.

Aphelios and Alune could have been one of the fun bot lane duos like Xayah and Rakan or Lucian and Senna. I think it would give an opportunity for the devs to include how they have to be together but also apart. Alune could be an enchanter have different abilities that make her allies deal increased damage or have bigger attack speed, in a way that the damage she can deal isn't really great but she can help her allies out a ton. Her ult could work similarly to the Mordekaiser one possibly? Transporting an ally and an enemy to the moon temple where the ally can finish off the enemy.

why did they make him mute when even sona can communicate with us through her thoughts?

This would have worked excellently for a visual media where he would have communicated emotions to the audience through physical manners and facial expressions. Like this, he really is nothing as if he isn't even there.

Aphelios & Alune, Uldren & Mara, Tyreen & Troy..... i think the "light-haired powerful girl child and dark-haired boy child who would die for his sister twin duo" is becoming a weirdly common video game trope

isn't the oversized coat also a Metaphor for him being stuck in a role way too big for him with the coat being the role and he himself representing himself obviously

Thank you for all the content you've given us all of these years TBSkyen !

I hope you have a wonderful holiday and a happy new year. I believe I found your channel this year and it’s been great. You’re my favorite youtuber and im looking forward to your videos next year

The most frustrating thing to me personally is that there is that there are other videogame examples such as Undertale, Chrono Trigger, Deltarune and OMORI where a character is silent or mute but actually do a better job at displaying their personality and relationship with other characters in non-verbal ways. Sometimes it's little details about them: trinkets they carry, how they react to certain things or people or body language that hint at a deeper personality and sometimes they outright imply the character is talking even if we don't hear them doing so. The latter could have been done really easily with Aphelios, maybe his connection to Alune allows him to telepathically speak to his sister but only we can hear her respond and react to whatever he's saying all while keeping Aphelios a taciturn, stoic and alluringly mysterious pretty boy. Maybe Aphelios, after he does his duty lets out a small , but sincere smile, and then us hearing Alune being a bit exhasperated at her brother making such a terrible pun but ultimately grateful to see him smiling and telling jokes again despite all they've been going through.

As someone who only knows League of Legends lore through your videos (and as someone who isn’t deaf/hard of hearing, so grain of salt on representation and all), the fact that Aphelios can’t speak could be interesting if he communicated to Alune through some sort of sign language. It would lead to an interesting contrast between in combat, when his hands are literally full, and out of combat, when he can communicate again.

Aphelios: "Alune guide my lance!" Nightelf: "What?" Aphelios: "What?"

Skyen, I'd LOVE to see you singing the most beautiful musics of the decade or just from 2019, I just love to listen to you playing and singing ❤️

i wish we could get alune as a character like we did with senna, would be super awesome if he could help her escape (imagine if it was a game mode AHHHHH)

i could listen to skyen making silly noises forever

Happy holydays and new year skyen, nave a good one my man, see yah next year.

20:00 lmao gottem

appreciate the send-off skyen, see you in the new year! :)

I like how when he talks about their pain and agony, Zoe's theme is in the background

The drinking poison animation has some Really snappy set up and pay off. And a 3 part act

15:04 Just a small correction here. You seem to be mistaking being Non-Binary with androgyny. Non-Binary does NOT mean being a blurred line between male and female presenting. It’s a gender identity and doesn’t have a specific “look”.

you know those meme compilations of when someone with a gun is shooting and rekting people and alll the meme sound effects play (mom get the camera and someone making gun noises) that but its aphelios killing the solari with all his guns

To a new year with new challenges, growth and joys

Honestly though, Aphelios being mute is no excuse for being under characterized. Especially not in a written story, which is the easiest medium for an internal monologue. People who can't use their voice tend to be MORE expressive, not less, and this is animation which would give them even more freedom. If the carpet from Aladdin can communicate without a voice or a face, I don't see why lacking dialogue should stop Aphelios from having personality.

When I look at this splash art of Aphelios. I just see *Hunchbacked Kpop Emo* His 2nd splash art thing you edited in is just too much, like, he is gripping his heart in it, and has a slight tear going down his cheek.

yuumi can still see alune, sleeps by her feet and sounds super cute.

Unironically Kindlejack the concept artist behind Alune and Aphelios despised the art released of them. Interesting as it does portray in them a very different light.

It might be just me, but I think Aphelios' anatomy is absolutely broken going by normal proportions. This mans has a damn swan's neck! And unless his clothes are absolutely ridiculously overblown, his shoulders are absolutely massive compared to the rest of his statue. Judging by angles and whatnot, his shoulders should either be slanted downwards at a roughly 20-30° angle, or they are so incredibly wide that it just straight up breaks his proportions. Not necessarily a negative, just an interesting point, that you could maybe go over as well? So far we've had a video covering broken female anatomy in League of Legends splash arts, but now we have a very good case of a male's anatomy just being...weird.

I disliked how excessively stereotypical the two siblings were coded re: their genders. Aphelios is born under the physical moon so he's physically stronger and faster, while Alune is born under the spiritual moon so she gets magic and spirituality. Then after their big defining story moment, Alune is removed from physical combat, becoming the magical girl support that talks and emotes while Aphelios becomes the stoic, pained, silent, emotionless protagonist that does all the cool physical stuff. I have seen this so many times before that I'm just tired. I never liked it and I genuinely don't think I ever will, regardless of how well it's done (and tbh I don't think it's well done in League at all). I appreciate you covering their lore and design though!

I like how the lore goes to the gameplay, like you need to aline your weapons and play around them liek the cycle of the moon

Kinda wish he at least grunts. Having him completely soundless is a bit weird. Edit: Apparently he does grunt. I guess I just don't notice

There are 2 things I dont like at all about Aphelios. The first, is the fact that he is mute, Riot FINALLY decides to create a proper third/ fourth twink, but they just had to ruin him by making her sister do all the talking, what a turn off. And second, his weapons, he is from targon, where people have swords, spears, maces... and then he have "magical" guns that look likes science fiction. Like... what?

What if they made it so Alune doesn't appear... Because you, the player, represent Alune? o.o

When you die, she does appear. Aphelios and Alune both reach for each other.

8:25: When you put it like that, it makes Aphelios sound like a blank slate for emo teens to project themselves into... 14:30: ...an impression that isn't helped by how Alune is effectively just a story hook and power source for her brother, rather than being a character of her own. 2:00: ...but everything changed when the Solari attacked? 4:15: _That was supposed to be a joke!_ 29:10: Wait, was that a FF7 Machinabridged reference?

Another thing I find adds value to Aphelios' blazer thing, and general colour scheme, is it's colored with more magical colours, matching Alune, while the clothes under them are darker, almost more subdued or plain (other than the gold) . This helps visually imply his main power is something added on, given by her, instead of something innate to him.

nice video man thank you

Their story reminds me of the movie lady hawk

Ap- = away from Helios = the sun A = to Lune = the moon

The overcoat makes him look Hunchback.

20:01 oh shit got 'em

Could you talk more about Aphelios and Sett?

Alune means to the moon in French. Fitting

GUYS I JUST REALIZED THAT APHELIOS POSES ARE JOJO REFERENCES AND IM FUCKING SHOCKED

whats the song used at the start of the video

I LOVE Aphelios, his theme song is incredible !

Tbskyen not at 100k "let's fix that."

why did youtube bury this. i only just now found it when i noticed i wasn't getting updated on your channel

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His ingame model looks like joji

what if we got alune and then all her voices is aphelios talking to her through thought

Rip sleep

Ahhhhhh so that's why Diana is in the Light Sentinels now...I see...

You know, I will probably never learn to play Aphelios because I just don't find the role of ADC all that fun, and when I do need to play an ADC Jhin and rat boy fill that niche just fine for me, but the more I see of Aphelios the less I tend to dislike him. Anime is not my thing and I really don't like the crystal weapons and imagery that looks like it's straight out of Halo, but you're right in that he is not something we actually had in the game before. He is as far from my cup of tea as it gets, but it's not a bad design, and I'm sure lots of people will enjoy him. It's like an opposite of Qiyana for me, who I think actually has a fun skillset, but I find her completely unlikable, both from the perspective of lore and her visual design.

It feels like yesterday since he was released Time moves too fast lately

i still dont know what he does and i cant tell the difference between his weapons and attacks in game

I wish they came out as a duo like Xayah and rakan

Think they'll make Alune a champion?

heii skyen i would value your opinion on a my oc hes heavily inspired by Evelynn but i want him to be more original more me like having black pearl skin and light grey pearl skin i intend for him to look likes hes naked but u don't see his ding-dong just a very flattering buldge like hes wearing speedos hes not sexy just for no reason hes a devine being born from Aphrodite and Oceanus hes a visual siren that seduces his foes into letting there guard down now heres the hard part WEAPONS heres my ideas a mace with a lare glowing pearl , claws like Evelynn but diffent colour , or even lashers , his body is musclure but agile looking. please give me your thoughts im gonna make this dude into the protagonist for my book and someone i cosplay alot!!!!

What do you even mean, there exists plenty of concept art of Alunes physical form which makes it easier to look at all of her features than it is in this splash and the art you edited in. It's on the Nexus post about Aphelios' development.

I really hope they make Alune into a champion in 2029.

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i think they did it right by focusing on aphelios when it comes to gameplay. alune is not actually physically there, as the story says - she's just giving him his abilities. so there is no need for her to be a part of the actual gameplay.

I think the other feminine male character is Jhin, even with the mask.

Alune - Riot Elune - Blizzard

What font is that on the thumbnail

tldr hes a stand user

Gonna be honest, for more games than I like, I thought Aphelios was just a girl until I got corrected a few mastery levels later

Aphelios is basically edgy bts

i really hate how every new champion now really LOOKS complicated (but really isnt) and has insane powercreep because they all have 21325125 passive abilities on them. This is not good champ design imo.

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You should take a look at Jared Leto at the 2018 met gala, clearly the direct inspiration for the design.

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I think you missed the mark on aphelios. I think a big part of their story of their story is an allegory on sexism and how a society's expectations can be toxic to both men and women. Alune despite being one of the most powerful people in lunari society essentialy runs away because fighting is "for men" and women are supposed to be sequestered away because they are "too fragile" for combat. On Aphelios' side is how he is expected to be stoic and unfeeling and how it literally hurts him with the plant he consumes. They two sides of sexuality and how both sexes can be hurt through societal expectations.

Why are you getting weird hyper conservative ads on your videos? Big oof.