Idk why, but I feel like I found the holy grail of Aatrox builds.

Ragnaveil·Jun 6, 2019·1 votes·1,429 views

Black Cleaver into LW rush into Steraks. Unless you are Tahm or Garen, no amount of armor stacking can shut your damage down, and you can pretty much instagimp adcs even late game. Keeping % pen this high was a mistake lol. CC and (sometimes hybrid) burst are the only things that can bring you down (even though cc is a general weakness for many champions). Even with a inconsistent sample size across accounts of varying mmr (mostly on the high end MMR), it seems to perform very well consistently vs the normal builds.

Funny part is that I tested this build back when Aatrox was intially released, and I saw a good bit of potential with it. Now it seems the cards have aligned for this to work all the sudden.

4 Comments

SamaHamraJun 6, 20191 votes

I don't mean to be annoying, just uninformed hasn't black cleaver into Steracks always been pretty solid

RagnaveilJun 6, 20191 votes

Yeah, but people always go Death's Dance before it. Its honestly a pointless item when you can boost your natural healing higher and better than that item can with LW's armor ignore. And you aren't annoying, trust me.

SamaHamraJun 6, 20191 votes

People usually just think of me as annoying when I saw it, but that item costs such a disgusting amount, especially when considering how it's usually paired with other mega-expensive items

RagnaveilJun 6, 20191 votes

Right, and the thing is Aatrox's weakness is not being high in health to continue the carnage. His HP scaling compared to other juggernauts is on the low side. I also found that getting a Ghostblade also just ramps that power to 11 (someone went GB as Aatrox in a match and it gave me an idea lol).