Aphelios and Alune are 200 years incarnate || Casual Champion Review 

that's the best part

Thresh, the only champion with a canonical Wifesteal stat.

​@@xolotltolox7626 oh my God

Are you kink-shaming?

And also not the fact that Thresh is a fcking skeleton and he is dead

I realized pretty quickly that his "complexity" was overrated. the hardest part is just memorizing what all his weapons do. From there he isn't very hard, at least for your average low to mid rank game.

​@@crr4482 hardest part is arrenging ur weapons . There's a certain pattern to follow . Wich weapon u have to consume first and all that

@@abdelkaderayech4913 thats true but to be honest in the lower elos I play at i've gotten away with no planning or forethought at all.

@@abdelkaderayech4913 if you wanna be super tryhard you can arrange your weapons not in a preset order but in a response to gamestate. For example, a big team fight is happening so maybe I want blue gun. We just got baron so I will save green gun to help seige, etc. Also, knowing every single combination for the two weapons is fairy diffuclt to keep track of even f you know what each weapon individually does. There are 20 gun pairs plus you need to be aware of what gun is coming next. You can also do some cool combos if you are low on two weapon ammos at once. You can q on main hand and off hand, swapping to the next two weapons and then q with those two weapons, giving 4 basic abilities with the only cooldown being the weapon change animation.

@@MIKAEL212345 red and white are the best tower taking weapons he has

The thing is, Kayn and Rhaast exist already. So maybe they felt as if this duo had to be different in some way.

@@GM-cw9qr Then Riot's logic is terrible because we already have a somewhat one-sided duo with Nunu & Willump. Willump is at least allowed to make noises, Aphelios doesn't get much outside of, "hAaH!"

@@dafroakie9984 i meant in Aphelios's case its voluntary silence, he cannot speak because che chooses to get help from alune instead of speaking, Willump on the other hand straight up doesnt know how to speak, thats why he is allowed agency in voice

what exactly do you want a mute character to say?

@@tofupowda ...I don't want him to be mute. That's my point.

I am a aphe main to so I agree so much

Its kinda funny actually. To be a decent aphelios player just go with an auto attack setup. He may have a super complex kit but in the end he is an auto attacker. That and red white let's fight

@@lotus8847 but good thing about him is he really pays off if u know how to play him, otherwise he is just another adc

@@lotus8847 the reason he's always placed low in tier lists is because people think like this. if you wanted to just auto attack someone then there's obvious options that are much better at that. he relies on his weapon combos to not get outtraded by every other adc. he relies on his versatility to not get outclassed by every other adc. if you are not using his combos or optimizing his versatility then why would you play him

@@chokonnit7337 I guess I should have explained things better. Aphelios is an autoattacker, no matter what weapon you use. I didn't mean to imply that his weapon combos arent useful. Of course every weapon has its perpouse and knowing when to use each makes a great aphelios player but you can't amply gravitum slow with auto attacking (well you can with ult but I digress). And its actually the other way around, some aphelios get stuck because they overcomplicate him. (I talk by experience)

@@lotus8847 are you saying you cant apply the slow with autos? i want to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume theres some extra typo changing what you mean since thats just wrong. saying aphelios can be good without gun management and combos is like saying draven can be good without catching axes. yeah you might have a good game if the enemy team plays with their monitor off but it will never be consistent. what makes something good is the ability to be good most of the time. aphelios cannot be good if you do not optimize his passive because you miss out on too many opportunities to do things like red green into purple for an early trade or wasting guns to have blue for dragon

aphelios mains rise up

@@raeste.claire7093 ye

Hopefully she is changed to her LOR version by then (Nicky will get to her in about a year or 2 i say)

Watch him play lor for Sera and Kata"s reviews

What if he just skips her and doesn't mention it at all

Seraphine? is that a new rune or something?

​@@elnchousona skin

It reminds me of DOTA 2 persona

So it'll be Definitely Not Aphelios

That’s a cool idea for a legendary tbh

Reverse Annie exists. There's art of reverse kindred. Give us reverse aphrlios lol

Like Sett and Aphelios

Yeah that's what it feels like with sett and aphelios like people just immediately like the idea of them being together that they forget any logic behind It ( like the fact that they are from completely different regions and might not actually be attracted to each other or even interested in a relationship)

all aphelios does is auto attack you, he has lifesteal as a passive basically, and every so often he throws down a turret his ult is just a wide skillshot which deals some damage Like, occasionally he has a secondary effect that changes depending on what gun he uses, but in exchange for 5 different ones, they aren't allowed to do very much, so for the most part you don't really have to worry about his abilities, just treat him like a regular ADC, with sort of a mini miss fortune ult kinda when playing him, you only have two active abilities, q and ult, the q is the only thing that changes drastically, so he sort of has 5 fairly ok basic abilities, but he can only use 1 per fight pretty much, and an ultimate actually the nice thing about him is you only have to worry about 2 cooldowns, his q and ult

or that rell has a q

@@pensuls7595 or that Rell even existed

tristana has a Q :p

Most of people even forget Yi has W E and R

@@cominksuadnyana4980 no no no no no no no people know about the w, im sure they love the towerdives with it

I mean, I love Jhin... as a character. But his gameplay is too awkward for me. And i main ADC.

@@lv4715 he is just, Not a good adc at what adcs do, he plays more like an assasin/catcher than a marksmen

I agree with you 100% i really don't see a reason for sett and aphelios to meet and romance in base lore

it is primarily because they released so close to each other, two hot anime boys released right next to each other, both of them lacking lots of connections to characters in the wider world, it sort of just came about because of convenience more than anything

I agree, I see most of the content being indulging the fandom, like Zed in Withered Rose Syndra's recall. Tho the same was true for Kat and Garen for a long time until the comic came out, so stranger things have happened.

Also love your vids Nicky, keep up the good work!

With as major as this flower juice is supposed to be to his character, the severe lack of it in any part of his kit just feels...Like they made the lore after they made the champion's kit/design.

i saw an idea where someone proposed giving him an actual e ability where he drinks more juice which increases his damage and attack speed but takes more damage

"He has a sister because whatever" Pantheon is a warrior because whatever Illaoi is religious because whatever Viktor is a cyborg because whatever Irelia is a dancer because whatever Incredible how that works right? Throwing "because whatever" at the end doesnt invalidate an important part of a characters story. I agree with you on the flower but alune is not "whatever"

@@raptorxrise5386 The other characters have those aspects as core to their character. The sister exists as part of the champion because ???. If you took the sister out of the equation you would go from a mute, gun-toting moon assassin with a backseat driver, to a mute, gun-toting moon assassin.

@@BoneWalker His entire story doesnt work. Without alune you have a random lunari kid that likes to play pretend with random weapons. She is both his main power and motivation.

Lol that's great

I wish Aphelios had more personality because as he is right now he's so.... BLAND 💔

As someone who likes them as a pairing, my personal experience and with others who also ship them really hasn't been focused on them being "hot". I personally am a girl who likes other girls, so them being pretty boys really doesn't do much for me. It's moreso like an opposites attract kind of thing, one of the oldest and most popular tropes in shipping. The big, hot-headed, punch first think later himbo with a heart of gold, and the quiet, stoic, think way too much emo boy who does a lot for his people and neglects what he himself wants. A red and blue, cat and dog, sun and moon-like dynamic, with both having a close tie to family in their lore which is what motivates them to keep going (Sett with his mama and Phel with Alune), and both being victims of prejudice who fought/fight their oppressors (Sett for being a "half-breed", Phel for being a Lunari). Sett could help Aphelios see himself as less of a weapon and more as a person who also deserves happiness, and I think that's what we like to explore most in their dynamic. And there is a way for them to meet given that in Phel's frozen-in-limbo-for-3-years lore, he was on his way to search for Diana in Ionia. I don't know if Riot will actually go with that or not, but it would be a pretty easy and lore consistent way for them to do it if they wanted to.

@@yazzy1666 I dunno, the ship doesn't work for me. Where would they have met? Why would Sett notice someone like him while his main focus is running the fighting pit and providing for his mom. I'm not against a character being gay, so long as it adds to them. Aphelios is just not all that interesting on his own and I don't think he really should be paired with anyone. Take for instance Varus. The back story of the lovers tied to the darken plays out well as all involved have their place in the story and influence each other in different ways. In contrast even the voice line in the spirit blossom pairing seems off as having Alune always around makes things awkward. I mean, don't let me ruin your fun, just offering my two cents on the point.

@@yazzy1666 @yazzy1666 there are so many opposites attract tropes in league and its always the same emo/introvert x hot headed/extrovert and I personally see Sett being with someone more caring to balance out his aggressive nature and Aphelios as ace since he seems to be religious and his sister is also basically always with him.. I can imagine how romantic relations would be awkward (this is just my head canon) and as far as we know Aphelios doesn't really have a personality outside of looking emo and doesn't talk and none of his skinlines really explored his personality and while you can argue spirit blossom, spirit blossom characters are not the runeterra characters. I'm a sucker for mlm romance so long as there's a seeable possibility

​​@@Exoantook the words out of my mouth this ship is insanely odd to me i don't see sett being interested in someone like aphelios like you said he's only focus is on running the fighting pit and providing for his mother likewise aphelios doesn't strike me as someone who would be intrested in a relationship let alone with someone who he has never meet or know he's only focus is on protecting his people and fighting for his faith and (this my personal observation) possibly trying to find a way to reunite with Alune (with how close their lore described their relationship to be i can imagine that being separated from his sister isn't very pleasing), like that's another thing that i don't really like about the ship wich is how out of character they make the characters act i know aphelios doesn't have much personality to work with but i can't imagine that someone who is very divoted to his faith and mission would be that head over heals over a stranger he never meet before (wich is how shippers tend to write them they write aphelios as if he's love sick and straight up obbseesd with sett) , something else that actually bother me is how people priorities this ship over aphelios and alune's relationship they priorities a ship that was born out of pure coincidence over aphelios realationship WITH HIS OWN SISTER WHO IS ACTUALLY A IMPORTANT PERSON TO HIM i keep trying to find fanfics that explore the twins realationships and i only found a few i can count on one hand because the majority of fics were just sett x aphelios smut and romance (idk if sett's mom receives the same treatment sett is honestly not a favourite of mine) that's how much people are prioritising this ship even in the heartsteel universe (the only universe where Alune isn't trapped and she and aphelios aren't separated) she was awfully neglected and not given any interactions with her brother this ship is very odd and dosent suit the characters and is basically impossible riot should seriously stop trying to make it cannon it isn't working

a good base would be a story about aphelios becoming less of a weapon and more of a person. the people around him see his sister as a chosen one and his entire life is just being an extension of her, not even being able to speak.

I think it would be interesting if they divided into his mental health alune in her voice lines say that he makes himself a weapon and considering his bio I wonder if it's out of feeling of failure and guilt that he couldn't fight the solari and alune had to trap herself in the spirit realm to help him so he feels like he has to mold himself into the best weapon he can be so that he doesn't fail like that again also aphelios looks so young and he's bio say he trained since childhood so he carried alot of burdens since he was a child and the only person he had that was close to him and could understand what he's going through was alune so does he wish he can comfort her the same way she does for him? How does he cope with being separated from her? I feel like there is potential for psychological depth here