Asol was clunky in a lot of ways that didn’t make him fun to play.

We could expand the size of Q by flying with it to make the cc last longer. No one did that because it wasn’t practical during a fight. The enemy could side step the Q now u don’t have any cc to keep them back and u just used E so you can’t fly away. The new Q does damage and you can move your head to follow opponents. that’s an improvement.

I enjoyed toggle W for the control but it sucked how tanks could just ignore the rings and walk us down, or silence would render us totally useless because we could no longer stack damage.

Burst W was more fun in lane but it was very unsatisfying when the enemy would get away because sol couldn’t control his own stars.

We couldn’t help with invades, or hide before drag fights. Sure our rings could detect stealth but it’s not a good trade for sol.

There was nothing more frustrating than retreating from a fight with low hp only to trigger a camp in the jungle and have it finish you off. In fact I didn’t like fighting in the jungle because I needed space to kite so there are huge sections of the map Sol couldn’t fight in.

I miss the traveling distance on early E, but it was a clunky ability. Any form of damage could knock a cosmic space dragon out of the sky? The cosmic space dragon who spends most of his time flying can’t fight while he’s flying? That’s not a dragon. The new flight ability is more dynamic and fun. The old E only had three uses get somewhere fast, flank, or flee. Now flying is active part of combat.

His R voice of light was super underwhelming. The comic space dragon opens up its maw at you and you get knocked back with a little bit of damage dealt to you? It was just a tool for spacing they get to close? Q them or use R to keep them in the damage zone. You could finish off your opponent with R but that’s not really the point of that ability. I feel like old Asol didn’t really have a clear fighting style.

Truth be told I stuck with Asol because I loved his theme, but by 2019 i couldn’t wait for him to get a modern kit. He actually has an identity now. He’s a late game scaling mage, and if you don’t know how to counter act that it’s your problem not mine see you on the rift.