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Can Aatrox have his old passive back?

Ultra Rapid Fyre·6/30/2017, 1:17:03 AM·2 votes·679 views

I mean really... outside of ARAM his passive stacks fall off way too quick

Anyone who plays alot of aatrox knows that typically his revive just leads to him being instantly killed again unless you have someone like lulu or kayle who WAIT till after you RESPAWN to ult you, which even then... mehh...

I still feel like the dev team is missing the mark with aatrox... its already bad enough that if he dies with GA + his passive ready to be used, it consumes both of them, thats just terrible design

Hes got a melee attack speed boosting kit, but the way his gameplay is, you almost have to build him as a tank... but he has none of the tanky abilities that make tanks... well... tanks... you could argue about his Q but even that is laughable and easily interupted...

Im still confused as to why he keeps getting no love... the mini rework had some nice changes like removing the cost of HP on his damaging W, and the % health back is nice too... but for a champ built around attack speed, his kit just makes so little sense with how squishy he is considering being squishy before was ok because his passive was reliably usable... where as now you end up with 70% or more of your deaths happening simply because the passive revive doesnt go off

With the length of CDs he has, its just impossible to proc without either massive attack speed and spamming autos to get his damage W to proc passive stacks... or diving an enemy team and pressing R which generally leaves you a dead man.

This guy needs so much attention its boarder line sad

5 Comments

Calabok6/30/2017, 1:17:37 AM1 votes

no he cannot.

Crett6/30/2017, 1:19:55 AM1 votes

Aatrox's changes are not final; they're giving him another update soon. (IIRC!)

Trap or a Trick6/30/2017, 1:35:18 AM1 votes

Ive been rushing Deaths dance, seems to help a TON with keeping hellbent up, black cleaver or trinity too :)

inuitmailman6/30/2017, 1:35:34 AM1 votes

They have already Said recently that he's going to have the largest GU ever done in the game. So hang in there brother👌

Doozku6/30/2017, 1:47:45 AM1 votes

I've been playing him recently and he actually feels pretty good. The passive revive feels so much better now that the CD gets to be massively decreased, and managing his passive is like managing Rengar ferocity. You need to be smart about it and wait for the right time to strike, and you need to hold your abilities till then. I also found great use out of the revive itself, but part of that may be that idiots don't understand that I have two lives. Even still, Aatrox's teamfight would be shit without some way to come back from the dead, since you get bursted so fast. His big problem for me has been and always will be how unsticky he is. He is slow, and his only dash is a long cd and also pretty short. Even Juggernauts like Darius don't get kited as hard and since Aatrox needs to be attacking in order to get tanky, he ends up feeling extremely vulnerable to ADC's who kite him hard. I'm actually thinking about getting Stormraiders on him so I don't get kited so bad, or maybe just FM would work.