Updated Aatrox in the Making and what riot needs to do better

So before i start this I need to say that I was an Aatrox main last season and partly through this season until they Made him better. As an Aatrox main the rework they gave Aatrox really was a complete F*** you to anyone who enjoyed the old Aatrox. By changing some of his abilites, although they were slight, it made all of them so much worse and less fun to use. His kit was completely fine and if used right very deadly. All riot really needed to was buff his stats a little bit and maybe change some of his scaling. Instead they made every one of his abilities much worse even lowering the damage on many of them, with the exception of his ultimate. His new passive took away everything I loved about playing Aatrox and made it something that felt unsafe and not fun to play with. Instead of being able to revive at any time your passive is up you now have a 4 second window to die or get a kill. As your passive stacks increase you no longer get attack speed, which honestly makes his early game much worse. The only way to stack his passive is using his damage W or using abilities. I now find that there aren't many good times to use the life steal part of the W because you cannot stack your passive with it. The biggest issue that Aatrox now has is his life steal. The champion was the most fun when you could life steal a lot of health quickly and out-duel your opponent in fun and interesting ways. Whenever i got ganked I used to be able to outplay with my life steal and turn it into 2 kills for me without dying and maybe only losing my passive. Now I feel almost defenseless when I get ganked. I find myself having to play way more passively than I used to because I have to wait for stacks. This is why I have stopped playing Aatrox. He just not as fun to play anymore and he feels restricted. Another problem is Riot took away the part of his passive where if he gets below 50% health his life steal increases. I don't understand why they got rid of all of the good and fun things about Aatrox and then released it hoping it would be a buff and put him back in the meta. If riot really wants to make Aatrox good, then they need to go back to what the champion did best, and that is life steal. I know it's too late for them to just go back to the old Aatrox and buff his stats and scaling which would have worked at the start. So at least if you're redoing his kit, mold it around being a champion with a lot of life steal and potential to turn fights around quickly in your favor. Take the stacking away because it feels very restricting and not fun to play with. He needs a bit more attack speed too, it was nice when his bloodwell gave him attack speed. Also please keep his jump and make it un-cancelable so it doesn't get cancelled every time someone has the slightest bit of CC. Aatrox was my favorite champion in League of Legends and hes what made this game so fun for me. I hope someone sees this because I want my favorite champion to be fun and playable again.

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