After finishing his climb to Challenger in the jungle role, Tyler1 has recently returned to his familiar role as a Marksman with the goal of reaching the highest rank on this account. It seems that he still hasn’t been able to adapt to the new champions in League of Legends, so he only plays old characters like Draven, Tristana, and even… Heimerdinger in the bot lane. As a result, Tyler1 is currently sitting at a Master rank.
However, people aren’t too concerned about his rank climb; instead, his blunt yet truthful comments have caught the audience’s attention. In a recent stream, Tyler1 sparked lively discussions when he compared a full build Jax’s strength to that of Aphelios’ turret.
The specific situation occurred when Tyler1’s Tristana moved to attack an Aphelios turret, and he was continuously hit from a distance by this champion with the effects of the Divine Judgment and the Crescendum. The streamer didn’t understand what was happening and could only shake his head in dismay. After the match, he downloaded the replay to review that moment and could only throw his hands up at the absurdity of Aphelios.
Tyler1: “I’m sorry, but there is no situation where I should be cornered by his turret. This only happens when I’m facing a full build Jax, but it did happen, and look at this little turret, it’s no different from a full item Jax. I can’t get close to his turret or I’ll basically get one-shotted.”
“Look, I’m full health and just moving to destroy a turret? I have equal items with him, what the hell is going on?”
But LS said Aphelios is an ordinary champion and the issue lies with the players.
He spoke about professional gamers who systematically ban picks to counter Aphelios. LS dislikes teams that choose Aphelios first but aren’t punished.
If you have to select an entire team composition, playing perfectly to defeat one champion, then that champion is indeed overpowered.
Exactly, there are some questions like why not ban him, why be overly concerned with countering that champion? Perhaps that is the responsibility of professionals. As for ordinary gamers like us, just remove that champion, please.
You know, Aphelios’ turret cannot be targeted until it attacks. So you have to eat its bullets before you can destroy it, and then the effect of the Divine Judgment activates even before you finish your basic attack. Great.
That’s the dumbest and most frustrating thing about this champion. I swear people will complain even more if they knew.
It’s unbelievable that it could activate effects across the entire map, it’s just absurd.
And Riot thinks this champion is balanced, oh, and let’s not forget about the pentakills with the Infernum.
To explain a bit, in that situation, Tristana not only received damage and effects from the turret, but Aphelios also launched an additional Q – Moonlight Cannon. Furthermore, at that time, Aphelios’ secondary weapon was the Crescendum, so every time the effect of the Divine Judgment activated, the damage became incredibly “surreal” as the chakrams would keep launching.
However, it is still unreasonable for a champion to deal continuous damage from basic attacks at a “thousand miles” range like that. Just like what gamers discussed earlier, when a professional team has to select an entire lineup of 5 champions, playing perfectly to counter Aphelios, then indeed this champion is overpowered.