Aurelion Sol Legend Strategy

Ezreal just got nerfed from a b-patch in the last couple of hours. This legend is still storng but he is now a A tier legend and no longer an S tier legend.

Buried Treasures no longer grant gold.

Tiny, Big and Giant grab bag give less gold (between 50% and 33% nerf)

On the other hand, Aurelion Sol started to gain more and more popularity as a strong alternative over Ezreal. But now that Ezreal is no longer broken, Asol is the most promising legend to rise on top.

Aurelion Sol purpose is to provide you augments that help you accelerate in your levels, in a sense, it's like having econ since you have to spend less gold to level up. HOWEVER, this is more specialised than Tahm Kench (let's say) as having 10 exp is less valuable than having 10 gold (since you have more freedom with gold). To prevent that unfairness, the devs rightfully pumped the number of ASol. So let's say if a gold augment of TK gives you 20 gold, Asol should give you around 24 exp to make it fair.

The idea behind Asol is to use that exp advantage and either:

• Find the 4-cost units before anyone else, basically you can't be contested
• Fast 9 and play legendary units and finish first

In this meta where Kaisa, Yasuo, Lux, Azir, Nasus and Shen are all extremely powerful and contested, it is definitely worth to push lvl 7 or 8 before anyone else and steal these units from the pool. On the other hand, we also saw a rise of the Peeba comp, the comp with exclusively (almost) 5 cost units. It's harder to achieve because it requires to be lvl 9 with enough gold to roll and buy the expensive units, but with Asol it becomes much easier to achieve it.

Whenever you play Asol and you have silver augments, you probably have to give up the Peeba comp strategy. Unless you highroll and you are in a portal that gives you tons of gold (eg: Scuttle Puddle), you will not have the resources to push lvl 9 and buy all the expensive units.

Instead, I highly encourage you to push lvl 7 before others and roll for your 4 cost units based on your items. After stabilizing your board, you can push lvl 8 and add some upgrades.

Do not hesitate to take another augment as the silver augments of Asol are not that impactful.

Patient study is an excellent augment in my opinion for two reasons:

• if you have a weak start, you can lose on purpose the whole stage 2, gather tons of exp and push level 7 in 3-2 with enough gold to roll for 4 cost units
• if you have a strong start, you can winstreak even harder by having an exp advantage over your opponents

If at your level 7 you can find easily your 4 cost units, let's say Yasuo, Kaisa and Shen, you can skip the level 8 with these augments and push level 9 quite soon to find all the 5 cost units. If however you can't find them easily, you will most likely stay level 8 and play as many strong 4 cost units as possible.

If you have Level Up! or the other two prismatic augment, you can definitely aim for the fast 9 strategy to play the peeba comp.

I will be honest, this is dangerous to play it like this as you can take too many bad fights and lose before reaching level 9. I still recommend to roll at bit at lvl 7 and 8 to stabilize your board before pushing for lvl 9 and play the Peeba comp.

PROS:

Asol allows you to snatch away all the 4 costs before others. It allows you to contest others instead of being contested. You can reach higher levels and cap your board even more with the Peeba comp.

CONS:

The games can feel like you are gambling everything at stage 3 if you have a bad start, this is risky and can lead you to multiple 8th in a row Remember that you play without combat augments, don't be surprised if you lose late game fights if you didn't manage to psuh lvl 9 with a high capped board OR if you don't have a 3* 4 cost unit.