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Such a good read, I wonder if we can still hear Aphelios his thoughts sometimes.
Such a good read, I wonder if we can still hear Aphelios his thoughts sometimes.
"IT'S NOT JUST A PHASE! YOU DON'T GET ME MOM!"
Marksmen largely play the same across all champions. You go to lane, farm minions, forget about the mini map, die a bunch, maybe get a kill or two, and build items. The abilities change, but the overall gameplay is familiar.
Ahh, so Riot DOES play the same game as us.
I'm a support main. This is my life.
Why you got a vision score of 1 at 29 minutes ADCs?
Back in s5(?) I played a solo ranked in gold, 1 of very few times I've played the game solo, I got flamed by my support for buying a pink ward when I should be focusing on items
I believe the monetary value of pink is better than any 500g or below item. Or at least that's what someone who is a much higher rank than me said once. The value begins to swing in the item balance when you hit 800g items.
So?! Does Aphelios even have a voice actor?
Aphelios' VO consists purely of "sounds of exertion," or so I was told by Riot Zimberfly.
So I do not believe he has tangible VO lines. I didn't play him on dev build so I'm not 100% sure.
I think they accidentally hit a control ward.
It's always Ezreals... /thinking
I think he would look better with lunar hair. Currently he looks like kayn with a coat
I am okay with this. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Did Riot at no point of his creation thought "This champion is obviously gonna be useless in the hands of most players but extra OP in pro-play so we'll have to nerf him countless times to the point where he's not just "kinda useless" but like, literally useless to everyone else, and then we'll either abandon him or try to make some mini-rework thing"?
So a part I cut from the article (due to length) was more around the decision to make him an ADC. The team shared that because Aphelios is an ADC, this allows more wiggle room for players to learn him. Even if you can't yet grasp the weapon swapping and just auto and Q, you're building AD items so you're going to do damage. You're still adding to the teamfight.
But if you put in the time to practice, learn weapon combos, and understand the kit deeply, you'll end up with some absolutely insane highlight reels.
As someone who has an unhealthy amount of hours playing Invoker on Dota, this is the first League champ that I’m super interested in. Very different than Invoker in terms of mechanics, but you are thinking about the same things in terms of strategy. Asking yourself the same questions.
I’ve seen a lot of people saying he isn’t that complex and he’s basically just auto attacking, and while Invoker has a little more going on mechanically, you are still on both characters thinking about CD timers, what ability needs to come next and how to get there, what combos do I have access to in this very moment, what combos should I prep for a fight, etc. the main difference is that Invoker has freedom of choice and Aphelios doesn’t.
The 2 biggest question marks I have are:
1) is there going to be a way to “dump ammo” quickly in order to get the weapons you need to set up a combo going into a teamfight?
2) if the W will be a true toggle or not.
The W is a true toggle. It has no Cool down. Sometimes when I'm just walking around and spam W because it looks so cool when he plays the weapon swapping animations (Which he can keep moving during)
PHASE
Moon puns? Seriously? Rito I am disappoint.
I'm a lunartic
They talk of playing Aphelios as something that would require a lot of knowledge in knowing what your strengths are at every moment, depending on main and off weapons. But isn't that also true for your opponents? And it's even less clear to them because you can't see what his off hand is like the player can. If the different weapons are as "op in certain situations" as described, I can see some hesitation or frustration being caused by not knowing if he can swap to a weapon that will negate what you want to do against him. Probably less so for his lane opponents because they will presumably see both weapons and new ones when they come out. But still, I can definitely just hear a lot of people going "wait wtf, he can do that" for much longer than other champs. I'm buying him day one
There's really only one weapon that requires enemies to be aware and that's Gravitum, the big black hole looking weapon.
A huge art of Kindlejack's work was making sure everyone could tell which weapons Aphelios was wielding and to make the way he held them seem clear.