Hey man, not a bad start to your guide! One thing that I will point out, however, is your lack of elaboration regarding Aurelion Sol's viability in fulfilling the support role. While you have some good general information regarding the champion and his abilities themselves, I think you need to expand a little bit more why and how to actually go about playing him in this 'unconventional' (so to speak) role.

Personally, I don't find Aurelion Sol to be a very viable pick just because I feel like he can be outclassed by other supports that fulfill his strengths in better, more feasible ways. But hey, maybe with some work this guide can convince me otherwise. Wish you the best of luck!

- Breath of Light really doesn't steal farm, not sure where you got that from. It is simply used to stun the enemy opponents for potential follow ups.

- Singularity can be used to surprise the enemy bot lane when returning to lane. creates good ganks for roaming mid and can be very strong for objectives like dragon.

- It's really not a bad thing to be out-ranged... just look at some of the melee tank supports in the bot lane. Just land your Breath of Light and pop your Astral Flight to do like poke damage to your enemies.. adc can simply follow up on the damage and would probably get you a kill or 2.

- Not true you can be considerably close to your adc, you wont even steal farm. Played Aurelion Sol support many of times and never stole more than 2 cs in a game. Hes range on Cosmic Creator is not even that that big, so I'm not sure why your so frustrated.

- For the kill secures it definitely not "inevitable". Not sure if you heard of a thing called pressing your w key again to detract your passive. Also if an enemy bot lane tries to escape and your adc can't get him, this ability is very strong. Makes it almost impossible for them to get away. Also it's better than letting the enemy get away.

You sound very frustrated at me. Sorry if you'd had bad experiences with him. But you don't need to go bash my guide just because it was someone else's decision to try it. Some of the reasons you stated can be avoided easily. I do see where you're coming from and I can understand why you're upset. I hope you can understand my point of view.

Anyways, good-luck on the rift!

His kit absolutely does not work bot lane.
Goodbye bush ganks.
hello Slow champion with little escape
Hello limited CC
goodbye ADC farm.
Stop making excuses to play him support because you can't mid T.T

No. Some champions just aren't meant for support. Aurelion completely being one of them. I'm tired of players trying to just make excuses for any form of CC being an acceptable reason for a full support. No.
This is like, for purely normals. In troll matches with unrealistic meta comps. Aurelion Sol is unacceptable for support for the following reasons:
-Single stun that steals farm, and is slow.
-No need for his E pretty much in bot, until late game. Wasted ability.
-Aurelion is out ranged by most adcs, unless he W toggles, WHICH STEALS FARM.
-Can't be anywhere near his adc without possibly stealing farm.
-Can't help inevitable kill secures on accident, over the adc, further making him trash for support.


Please stop spreading this. Every single ranked game where some dude tries this, it cripples our adc, and ruins the whole game. Just stop. There's a META for a reason.
Sincerely, Plat Division.

Thank you very much for your insights, and thanks for helping the guide become more accurate with the information you provided! Really means a lot. Thank you.

As for Braum's Unbreakable, the fact that it can stop the stun and the damage from Breath of Light [Q] is not the way Braum's Unbreakable is susposed to interact.

In fact, he's Unbreakable is ONLY supposed to block damage, any kind off CC can still hit him.. I really hope that Riot fixes this in the near future.

As for items I tried to stay with-in the boundaries of Tank and AP as you explained in your post. I really like some of the items you suggested like, Eye of the Watchers. I forgot to even consider this item. I think I will consider adding this item in my build. Thanks!

Building some defense like Sunfire Aegis can really help with damage when an enemy is in your face and provides some nice Health and Armor to your build. I did include Zz'Rot Portal for a choice to build as it can provide the pushing power as you explained and the stats that the item provides are nice as well. Dead Man's Plate is good on Aurelion Sol too for more movement speed to push your Breath of Light without using Singularity and can make some nice turns without losing all of your movement speed. As for AP in my build, I think that there is plenty. I found that I still did good damage along with the tanky composition of my build allowed me to withstand more damage from the enemy and gave me more time to land my abilities and position my self better.. As for the Magic Resist/Health Items, I found that Abyssal Mask was a decent item for Aurelion Sol. Having that extra AP in fights and its Unique passive to reduce their MR really comes in handy.

Now for Champion Synergy I had a tough time putting Kalista down because of her Fate's Call [R] didn't really seem like a good thing for Aurelion Sol. As I started getting Kalista as my ADC more I noticed that the poke combination between Aurelion Sol and her, were as almost equivalent to Varus. Her Fate's Call didn't seen that bad either because It provided a long enough knock up for me to position my self and land a stun as well. This combination I will probably end up putting in my guide later in the future as well.

If you noticed, I haven't got any of my Guide Sections completed yet as there is more discoveries to be made on him, and he's very unknown what is good on him at this moment. Thanks for the information and I will use it to make the guide more accurate and understandable.

Oh and by the way, to use spoilers, look at the following text below. ;)




EDIT:

For he's abilities, predicting Aurelion Sol's Breath of Light [Q] isn't as easy if you use it correctly. You can try using it closer to the enemy giving less time for the enemy to react. You can also try activating the spell a head of them a little that way they have a much tougher time dodging it. Also combining Singularity [E] with Breath of Light by flying over a wall can help very much. You can use Breath of Light as a follow up ability. ex. Miss Fortune uses Make it Rain to slow the enemy and Aurelion Sol follows up by using Breath of Light to stun them.

As for the problem with bushes. You can still use you abilities inside the bush and they wont see it. They only see your Passive ( Cosmic Creator). They also cannot auto attack you either so the aspect of stealth might be gone but the aspect of avoiding kiting still very much exist. Of course putting a ward in the bush would negate that but that's the solution to any other support.

I'm about Level 5 on Aurelion Sol now and got "S+/S-/S" rankings pretty frequently. In my opinion he's pretty hard to play but when you do learn how to position yourself and use he's abilities correctly, you can dominate in quite of few games. I also don't think he is overpowered either, he seems pretty balanced to me and honestly deserves a couple buffs as well to hes base stats. Thanks again for your help, I really appreciate your input.

EDIT: I'll figure out how to slim the post later; I'm running between classes right now.
EDIT 2: Unless I can use spoiler tags or something (it's not clear because it's not in the given options on the bar) I can't very well slim it down so I'm formatting it so the information is more clear.

I'm not sure exactly what your plans are but I've played 5 games of Aurelion Solport (3 wins - 2 losses / first game was an S- at 3/3/12) and think I have at least some insight(not a lot) on this champ as a support.

Item/Mastery/Rune Builds
Now, hear my out, this is just what I build on him because I build him as Half-Tank/Half-AP.
My masteries are 0/12/18 with the keystone being Bond of Stone.
I use tanky runes as well.
My reason behind this is to support a slightly less defensive build path to start the game.
My item build is
1. Eye of the Watchers (Frost Queen's is pretty useless on him but I like having the gold generation over the whole game and building the sightstone into my support item gives me more slots to work with)
2. Lucidity boots (Could be swapped for a defense boot if you're behind or just need to be tankier)
3. Rod of Ages (For curing Mana problems, health for more tankiness, and AP for damage)
4. Seraph's Embrace (Synergizes with Rod of Ages and solidifies the end of mana problems forever)
5. Rylai's (Perhaps built a little late in the build, you can probably skip over Seraph's to go for this, but you should at least buy Tear before working on Rylai's so you can get it stacking)
6. Zz'Rot or GA (It depends on what you need at the time, but generally I'd imagine you'll need mixed defenses so these are your mixed defense choices; Zz'Rot is good if you need more pushing power, GA is good if you're ahead or getting blown up in fights)

Champ Synergy
Kalista - Good/Decent - Due to his harass pattern of Qing then moving in and using your W for damage if you land the stun, you're put well into range for AAs giving you some good synergy with Kalista's W passive (the % health for your and Kalista hitting the same target in quick succession) and you have some interesting interactions with her ult. Not only can she grab you out of bad situations, but your stars continue to revolve around you (which you're now considered to be on top of Kalista) while you're ethereal, giving your ADC your stars while she presumably kites backward.

Lucian - Decent - With his strong burst damage and relatively short range, he synergizes well with your harass pattern by removing most of the danger of him coming in close with your reliable stun.


Insight on Abilities
Passive/W - Work on positioning, you can use it to soften waves if you're in voice comms with your ADC but otherwise I wouldn't recommend it. Due to your inability to hide in bushes you may want to rotate around near river, forcing your opponent's support to answer you or else they leave their ADC exposed (though if you do this, make sure that you keep river warded so you don't get hopped on by a overeager jungler).

Q - Some people may say that this ability is easy to predict, that's where some of its strength lies; There are three ways to dodge it- running away, running diagonal, and sidestepping it. Running away doesn't generally work because it will expand to get you and it has a pretty high movement speed. Running diagonal is pretty effective but has a similar problem that it may still catch you before you get out of the way. Sidestepping is good if you react quickly but it also generally forces you to not make any progress away from Aurelion, meaning he's moved in (because he was nursing the star) and is in range to harass you with his W and then drift away because you were focusing on dodging his stun (generally).
Another relatively important thing to point out is that unlike almost every other support, his stun cannot be blocked. Almost every other stun or root I can think of (Morgana Q, Blitz Hook, Lux Q, Braum Q, Tahm Kench Q at full stacks, etc.) that are ranged can be blocked by minions or by allies. Aurelion Sol, in the same way that Anivia support's stun can't be blocked this way, cannot be bodyblocked and only becomes more threatening as it travels. There are two people off the top of my head as other supports that can thwart this but it's otherwise rather strong for this reason.


Match-ups -
I'm not sure how many games you've played, but I've found that Morgana can be annoying (but is relatively easily managed) because she can thwart your Q plans with a simple blackshield. If you can bait out her shield you're golden, but otherwise she's annoying.
I haven't had the misfortune to play against it, but Braum's shield may also be a pain in the *** for Aurelion Sol. The fact that he destroys the projectile, as long as he can get in front of the middle star and throw up his shield, he can stop your stun from effecting anyone but him, which, while that's good that he can't absolutely negate it, it's still a pretty annoying thing that could turn a sure kill into an actual fight.

The Introduction, Champion Synergy and the Items section are currently being updated. Sorry for the in convenience! I try to play Sol myself so I can gather enough information on him as possible and unfortunately that takes time.

If any anyone would like to provide information that would be much appreciated!

Best Regards,
DragonMorpher

As for the stun that might be predicted, you can try using it closer but safely behind your minions and still can hit them or even using in the bushes as they cannot see your abilities only your passive (w). He's kit works well bot lane but the only disadvantage he has is that bushes do not hide him.

it is an issue for sol early when he gets grabbed and being left to die.

aside from that the course of the stun can be predicted and the ult is also a realy nice disengage for a gank