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[2.2] Aurelion Sol Guide - Main ASol? Need to support? DW!

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Main ASol? Need to support? DW!

This is a viable build on a roaming support ASol that can bring a lot to objective contests, and can provide huge utility to his team, either by healing or slowing enemies down indefinitely.

Pros

  • Terrific amount of utility
  • Be able to control the battlefield
  • Better objective contest
  • Map Roaming
  • Better damage than other supports

Cons

  • Can be jumped on
  • Don't have innate defensive stats

Aurelion Sol Build

Best Build Guide for Aurelion Sol

first purchase
Ruby Crystal
first recall
Giant's Belt
Boots of Speed
First item (Very high priority)
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
center of universe
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Dead Man's Plate
Boots of Swiftness
Abyssal Mask
Liandry's Torment
Morellonomicon
immortal god
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Abyssal Mask
Mercury's Treads
Frozen Heart
Thornmail
Warmog's Armor
flex items
Ardent Censer
Winter's Approach

Item Build Description

Additional information on the items

First item:

  • Ruby CrystalRuby Crystal : obvious choice as a support as you need high sustain against both duo lane enemies. You could opt for Cloth ArmorCloth Armor against Pantheon support and other AD supports, but that wouldn't help towards Rylai's Crystal ScepterRylai's Crystal Scepter which is very important to you.

First recall:

  • Giant's BeltGiant's Belt : grants you hp. You'll need health sustain because you must avoid taking honey fruits as you want to leave them to your ADC. (They usually have sweet tooth and they have to avoid recalling to stay in lane longer for gold income.) Always remember to prioritise recalling as a support as you don't lose much unless your ADC is low or they need decent babysitting.
  • Boots of SpeedBoots of Speed : as Aurelion SolAurelion Sol you need a lot of speed to control the battle.
  • If you have spare gold keep itemising towards Rylai's Crystal ScepterRylai's Crystal Scepter .

First item:

  • Rylai's Crystal ScepterRylai's Crystal Scepter : your first and only power spike as a support. Once you have Rylai's you can infinitely proc Font of Life (if you have it) and Weakness. GG! Not much to explain about it. Just try to teamfight and touch as many people as possible with your stars. Escaping from your grasp is almost impossible and chasing your carry is hard as well due to the infinite slow, on-demand StarsurgeStarsurge , and Voice Of LightVoice Of Light  if anything becomes dire.

Center of Universe:

  • Dead Man's PlateDead Man's Plate : gives you an absurd abusable amount of Movement Speed. You never have to AA to so you can constantly have +50MS and +5%MS. This allows you to stay on top of enemies at all times increasing your power in teamfights. The armor and HP boost gives you a considerable amount of protection as you might become a prime target many times due to the tilt you cause to the enemy, or due to you being also immobile if jumped on as you have no Ghost or Flash. PS: you only have to AA in order to proc Kleptomancy if you have it.
  • Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness : grant the biggest speed, on the most important stats for Aurelion SolAurelion Sol .
  • Abyssal MaskAbyssal Mask : your magic resistance item. Increases your damage and your mage's damage while giving much needed stats for Aurelion SolAurelion Sol . Don't swap for Force of NatureForce of Nature as this would leave you lacking in mana.
  • Liandry's TormentLiandry's Torment : due to you having a lot of CC and being ranged you don't need much protection so you can always build more damage and utility. Lyndrai's will give a terrific 2% max HP burning effect on enemies while increasing your AP and most importantly your HP.
  • MorellonomiconMorellonomicon : grants more utility with the constant Grievous Wounds being applied to your enemies. Also grants AP and the much important HP. The flat magic penetration is decent as it gives you a 7-11% increase to your flat damage output, but you don't need a lot of penetration as you don't deal much flat magic damage anyways. You can absolutely finish people, but your main objective is silver spooning victims to your team.

PS: MorellonomiconMorellonomicon  will give you 7% increase on tanks, 9% increase on bruisers,11% increase on squishies.

Immortal God:

  • Abyssal MaskAbyssal Mask : your only magic resistance item, as you usually don't need more than one.  Increases your damage and your mage's damage while giving much needed stats for Aurelion SolAurelion Sol . You buy this before armor items as in this case you profit more from the available spammability of your spells. We only bought Dead Man's PlateDead Man's Plate earlier before because of its mobility, not mainly for the armor.
  • [mercury treads]: you'll become a central point for tanking so you need tenacity to be available to use CC and maneuver your stars.
  • Frozen HeartFrozen Heart : a good item for your first armor. Decreases AS of your enemies and also gives more CD reduction for more spamming.
  • ThornmailThornmail : capitalizes on [frost heart], as it benefits from a high armor stat. Also makes you incredibly tanky and provides a decent amount of Grievous Wounds to the teamfight. Also incentives you to become a central tanking point.
  • Warmog's ArmorWarmog's Armor : gives an incredible boost to your health which boosts your healing by the Font of Life. Also allows you to linger around the battlefield and be always available for your team.

Flex Items:

  • Ardent CenserArdent Censer : only viable with Font of Life. If an ally attacks an enemy slowed by your stars they proc this item's passive. The passive doesn't have a cooldown so it can be procced infinitely. Can replace Abyssal MaskAbyssal Mask if enemy has no notable AP or [warmog's heart] if you have a very high AS attack speed ADC like JinxJinx in your team.
  • Winter's ApproachWinter's Approach : only viable by swapping out Abyssal MaskAbyssal Mask in Center of Universe build if the enemy has no notable AP.

Aurelion Sol Runes

Best Runes for Aurelion Sol

Keystone
Phase Rush
Phase Rush
Domination
Weakness
Weakness
Resolve
Adaptive Carapace
Adaptive Carapace
Inspiration
Pack Hunter
Pack Hunter

CENTER OF UNIVERSE

Kleptomancy:

You don't need any offensive runes, don't have a shield or lingering damage to proc Aery, and not enough health to make FoL viable. Kleptomancy is a spicy pick. Swap for Font of Life if you don't like this keyrune.

Weakness:

The best rune on you as the +5% damage amp is almost always on the enemies due to your Rylai's Crystal ScepterRylai's Crystal Scepter and the 5s duration of this rune.

Spirit Walker:

A nice early boost to your health and most importantly, slow resistance.

Pack Hunter:

Another rune that adds mobility, and more gold income. Can swap for Manaflow Band, but not very recommended.

Keystone
Font of Life
Font of Life
Domination
Weakness
Weakness
Resolve
Hunter Titan
Hunter Titan
Inspiration
Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band

IMMORTAL GOD

Font of Life:

This rune is terrific on this build as it grants an absurd amount of healing for your team. Every attack against an enemy with the mark heals for 120hp over 2 seconds, or 80hp/attack if it's continuous AAs. This can heal a JinxJinx with Runaan's HurricaneRunaan's Hurricane more than her own life steal!

Weakness:

The best rune on you as the +5% damage amp is almost always on the enemies due to your Rylai's Crystal ScepterRylai's Crystal Scepter and the 5s duration of this rune.

Hunter-Titan:

Better than Spirit Walker as it gives more HP, and gives you much more needed tenacity.

Pack Hunter:

Allows you to spam your abilities more. Can swap for Manaflow Band.

Skill Order

How to distribute skill points

Center Of The Universe
Center Of The Universe - Passive
Starsurge
Starsurge
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Celestial Expansion
Celestial Expansion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Comet Of Legend
Comet Of Legend
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Voice Of Light
Voice Of Light
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Summoner Spells

When to take which summoners

Smite
Take this to have double smite for objectives, heal from jungle creep, and upgrade to blue smite.
Heal
Healing and Speed boost, two in one. Enough to boost your ADC for the kill or for the escape.
Flash
If teammates flame you TOO much, (you'll always get flamed,) or are uncomfortable with Smite.

Combos

Learn how to maximize the champions potential

Comet Of Legend
3rd
Starsurge
1st

Bring a star to the fight

If you're flying with a newborn star, the star will keep expanding and you can bring a star 1.5x times bigger than the lane to the fight in the late game.

Celestial Expansion
2nd
Celestial Expansion
2nd

Speed Boosting

Never forget to speed boost, especially after getting an Abyssal MaskAbyssal Mask . All the time!

Starsurge
1st
Celestial Expansion
2nd
Voice Of Light
Ult
Starsurge
1st

Ult All-In combo

Start of with StarsurgeStarsurge and then after expanding the starts, use Voice Of LightVoice Of Light in order to group enemies in the outer bond and decapacitate them so you can burst them with the stun from StarsurgeStarsurge .

Celestial Expansion
2nd

There aren't many combos for Aurelion Sol, just use your CC wisely and effectively, and constantly touch enemies with your ball to proc your amazing runes.

Comet Of Legend
3rd
Starsurge
1st
Stasis Enchant
Smite
Smite

Flying Martyr

One of the coolest ways in the game to steal an objective. Stun the enemies, and boom, Smite! If you arrive too early just uses [stasis enchant] and wait for the objective to get low before smiting.

Smite
Smite
Smite
Smite

Try to smite every objective as if you're the jungler. Just don't do it prematurely before the damage threshold as you may cause the enemy team to steal.

Tip: You'll usually will have an unupgraded Smite which means you'll easily target the epic monster. If you have upgraded your Smite, however, target the epic monster with the Minion button first and then Smite. You don't wanna miss a Smite.

Aurelion Sol Matchups & Counters

Detailed information on how to play matchups and counters

Braum
Easy
Braum
Ezreal
Easy
Ezreal
Jhin
Easy
Jhin
Lux
Easy
Lux
Sona
Easy
Sona
Soraka
Easy
Soraka
Xayah
Easy
Xayah
Ashe
Medium
Ashe
Draven
Medium
Draven
Janna
Medium
Janna
Kai'sa
Medium
Kai'sa
Miss Fortune
Medium
Miss Fortune
Vayne
Medium
Vayne
Alistar
Hard
Alistar
Galio
Hard
Galio
Leona
Hard
Leona
Pantheon
Hard
Pantheon
Tristana
Hard
Tristana
Yasuo
Hard
Yasuo
Jinx
Skill
Jinx
Varus
Skill
Varus

Quite easy to play against as his Stand Behind MeStand Behind Me doesn't stop your Celestial ExpansionCelestial Expansion from hitting the ADC. He also has no significant way to control you.

Aurelion Sol

Summoner Spells

Heal is a constant summoner spell for Aurelion Sol Support.

Smite / Flash:

Flash is not very important on Aurelion SolAurelion Sol when playing support because he has decent move speed, and doesn't need the Flash pressure. Flash helps you disengage as it makes your Comet Of LegendComet Of Legend wayyy more useful when escaping, but it doesn't help you get kills as you have a low amount of AP and no Ignite. Smite is a very interesting choice. It helps you boost your jungler or farm the krugs while your ADC is safe. The gold and xp you lose from it are not very important as you are a support and you can always farm krugs to make up for the deficit of 5 minions waves. 2 krug camps to make up for the game deficit. Not bad at all. It also gives you a lot more flexibility on using it, and gives your team a huge amount of objective pressure.

SSum Placement:

  • Smite/Heal
  • Heal/Flash
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R20RBB
3 years ago
What is y0ur 0pini0n 0n Tank Supp0rt Aureli0n S0l? I'm curi0us ab0ut the smite and heal summ0ning items, since exhaust is better and ADC takes heal m0st 0f the time.
Arkid
3 years ago
Heal provides mobility. Exhaust doesn't. And your ADC can always go Barrier.
Arkid
3 years ago
It's funny this guide is actually serious about it. Nonetheless, don't forget this guide is from Patch 2.2. Nowadays I build Fimbulwinter even in MID so I'd say it fighter ASol is amazing.