How to win lane as Locke against Aurelion Sol · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
A stationary spell-battery vs a blink with an execute — survive the poke tax pre-6, then every low-HP recall becomes a Purgatory receipt.
Track: Aurelion Sol's W — Astral Flight (22–16s cooldown). His reposition and escape — he is a stationary battery while it is down.
Read from Locke's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Aurelion Sol.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Both farming with no engage at 1 keeps it even skill. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | At 2 it's still a stackless poke exchange with no all-in — even. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | At 3 you out-trade his immobile, stackless early, favoring you. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Through 4-5 his farm scaling catches up, evening the trades again. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Your level 6 all-in beats his pre-stack R zoning, favoring you. |
| First item | Even / skill | At first item his stacks close the gap and trades even back out. |
| Two+ items | Aurelion Sol | With two-plus items his stacked Q and giant ult out-scale you. |
Levels 1-2 are even but pressured — Aurelion Sol just wants to farm and stack, so contest CS and poke his short-range Q channel while he can't fight back. Don't let him free-farm comfortably, because every stack is late-game power. Aurelion Sol is a stack-scaling farm mage who is weak and immobile early; at level 3 you out-trade him because his Q (Breath of Light) is a short-range channel and his W flight is on a long cooldown — engage while he's forced to farm passively for stacks.
The full Locke vs Aurelion Sol report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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No sample yet — Locke vs Aurelion Sol has no Emerald+ win-rate data for this patch; 6 of the 7 windows are a coin flip and Aurelion Sol edges the rest 1–0, so treat it as a skill matchup and play the plan below.
Mostly — 6 of the 7 windows are a coin flip and Aurelion Sol edges the rest 1–0, so execution decides far more than the pick does.
Locke runs Electrocute · Sudden Impact · Sixth Sense · Ultimate Hunter · Bone Plating · Revitalize vs Aurelion Sol.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Sheen (≈900g) — the Spellblade pattern starts here. Build Lich Bane first, then Shadowflame / Mejai's (if sealing), with Mercury's Treads / Sorcerer's Shoes.
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