"Hold down to your buffs!" - Aatrox
Meddler - 5 months ago
Yeah, Aatrox's ult is not as satisfying as an ultimate should be and that's something I'd like to see us address at some point. Two attack speed steroids on the same kit diminishes the amount either's felt, especially when one of them's variable (Olaf suffers from this problem too). Splitting the ability's power between a PBAOE nuke and steroid also leaves both feeling somewhat unsatisfying when balanced. To top it off, the increased attack range is certainly useful, but not sufficiently different to really shake up his play while it's active (compare it to Kayle's E for example).
A PBAOE fear would feel great for the Aatrox player by contrast and has some decent grounds for a thematic tie in. It's very much a tank ability though and putting that sort of ability on a character that also expects to have all of a fighter's strengths has been pretty problematic in the past on game health/balance grounds (see J4, Zac, Wukong at various times). I could see an argument for reworking Aatrox into a tank (first into the fight and all), personal feeling though is that a fighter's both what his theme's a better match for (he'll personally cut you down, rather than primarily setting up his team to do so). Fighter's also his current playstyle and where possible maintaining what people currently like about a champion's definitely something to strive for. Curious to hear other people's thoughts on tank versus fighter though just in case I'm making some poor assumptions here.
Also, just as a general note, this isn't any sort of indication of an Aatrox rework or upcoming changes to his ult's functionality. He's overall in an ok spot (balance might or might not need adjusting, that's just number tweaking though) and there are a lot of champions with a much greater need for ability overhauls. Thought this was an interesting discussion though and wanted to get involved in the conversation.
any news in a small buff or number tweaks for 
? that point blank fear sounds good after all.
on another note, how about moving while in stasis? sucks that many times that i die just need to see them waiting to kill me again once I'm back up.
http://wallpapersphotos.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1383_aatrox.jpg
