I feel like the world is insane when I explain EXACTLY whats wrong with Aatrox.

Because no one seems to understand, and they try to argue with me. I am 100% correct.

Its not exactly about his stats or his abilities.

The reason can build glass cannon is because they have, built into their kits, abilities to reduce or completely top incoming damage. Just like and others.

When they build their builds, they heal like crazy. I watch heal up like crazy in lane, way better than Aatrox can, and yet for some reason Riot tip toes around Aatroxs heals despite healing being so broken on so many champions because their kit allows them to build more damage, attack speed and lifesteal than Aatrox can without him being simply bursted down.

1)Aatrox is one of the only champions at top lane to have no built in shield, block, parry or way to stop incoming damage or built in resistances or tenacity either through passives or ults ie

2)He is the only champion in any melee or adc class that has NOT ONE of these: Built in crits, build in armor pen, built in true damage, build in % health damage, built in burning damage and built in significant magic damage (thanks to changing his E to physical damage, meanwhile jax gets free magic damage passively from his ult every 3rd hit. Awesome)

3)Aatrox Passives are fundamentally unfair compared to other passives. For example Voli bear passive allows him to heal for the same amount while being able to MOVE OR STAY IN THE FIGHT. Aatrox just sits there, usually to die. His Hellbent is not a passive benefit--he has to get FIVE stacks. There is nothing passive about that. Unless he has 5 stacks, he has no extra anything

4)Aatrox is pulled in more directions in terms of what he needs for his kit. This is grossly unfair and he is much harder than before the mini rework.

Before you could focus on AD and AS if you wanted to because everything scaled off of that. Now his healing doesn't scale off of bonus AD. Now if you want bigger heals, you need to build health, as it works of a % of missing health....

BUT he desperately needs attack speed for his W and for the heals to proc...

BUT he desperately needs AD for his W damage to scale and for his dive and poke...

BUT he also needs armor and magic resist because he has no built in defenses. Do not say it his lifesteal. I already pointed out that other champions with kits that have defense built into them can build better and out lifesteal him easily.

I really don't think there is anything wrong with his kit other than he got shit on by Riot who made him such a bare bones champions because of his old healing and revive (which he no longer has).

There are only 4 things needed to make him viable in his current design:

1)Remove the %health scaling for heals and return it to scaling off of bonus AD 2)Return his E back to magic damage 3)Add some kind of shield or defensive stats--such as getting stats during Hellbent or Massacre or having enemies hit by his blades of torment do reduced damage for a few seconds. ANYTHING. 4)Change 5 stacks to 4 for Hellbent. Its ridiculous to have to be so aware just to maybe get a passive benefit. He is super easy to tower dive and smart players can stop him EASILY from stacking to his Hellbent.

Again, this is the kind of thinking that didn't happen when that idiot ricklessabandon did the mini rework.

Yes, I know they are going to give him a real rework but...why should we have confidence that they won't fuck it up, as Riot is very prone to do?