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About Aatrox's Change in Patch 9.3 and what my Opinion is on it

MrEnds··8 votes·5,230 views

Aatrox So i play the champion Aatrox and i have some questions and worries about the future for the champion i play, first of all the change to his E is in my opinion slightly too drastic and removing the 2 charges makes it nearly impossible to complete a full combo unless the laner you are up against is standing still for you're first Q because you cant engage the combo with a dash anymore and i would do Q - E - W - Q - Q - E to complete a full combo and if i dont have the last dash because its on cooldown due to there not being the second charge anymore i cant complete a combo and that makes it nearly impossible to pose as any sort of threat to anyone with a nearly decent reaction time so are there going to be any sort of buffs in the future to atone for this issue, also now since the heal off of minions is removed i cant stay in a fight without losing all of my health to minions due to the way Aatrox is meant to be played when fighting and if i cant complete a combo the trades will nearly never be in my favor and that stacks with the fact that i cant get my health back after the fight in order to make trades nearly equal even if the full combo is not complete-able anymore and that makes his early game terrible which is nearly all he has since he falls off even harder late game.

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Requiemsfire4 votes

yep just to give people a quick idea,

at max rank his new E will have a 5 second cool down, and with 45% CDR he has 2.75 seconds which of course requires the inspiration tree. If you do go inspiration tree you are sacrificing potential damage and durability for a tree that doesn't do a whole lot for aatrox and brings him down a little further.

Now what does removing a stack of E really do for aatrox, well it prevents him being able to effectively to land an additional Q multiple times and while he may be able to E more often inside a fight he doesn't really get the same option.

Another thing to note is that his Q like riven's times out after 4 seconds so if you really want to hold out for your second E to time out you have to very fast because you only have a window of 1.25 seconds to activate it at best time and keep in mind this is purely level 13+ with capped CDR so odds are in laning phase you won't even be able to use it a second time before Q times out very easily.

Aatrox will still be able to poke fine in lane but his all in's just turn horrible because of how easy it is to evade his Q and now that his E basically has a lockout timer its like all his match ups basically just got warped. It doesn't help that you can basically walk out aatrox's W with no mobility spells or summoners for that matter.

MrEnds1 votes

Exactly

MrEnds1 votes

I couldn't have said it better myself

Requiemsfire3 votes

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I couldn't have said it better myself

Not to mention most people won't be precise enough to be in position to use Q between Es with the 2.75 second delay because the remaining 1.25 seconds is too small of a window, all the while your opponents cooldowns are just coming out.

Furthermore during aatrox's ultimate each second has to count and having time delay using your Q will not only be more awkward and clunky but counterintuitive to how his ultimate should be used.

Riots perception of meaningful strengths and weaknesses leaves it so that aatrox only has weaknesses to exploit and no real positive strengths.

Ragnaveil1 votes

His poke isn't even that good anymore considering he doesn't get healing on minions anymore. His sustain in good or bad matchups legit took a nosedive. Their whole "HP regn" buff is hardly even noticeable unless I build Spirit first item. I find it I have to legit build Death's Dance first item just to be able to sustain and stay in lane.

Lûxu3 votes

THIS IS NOT GETTING ENOUGH TRACTION! aatrox has been rendered unplayable after this patch, since all that is required to avoid his combo is a pulse. W is a joke E range has always been a joke but at least the charges helped, healing on minions mirrored his old identity with his old w healing, riot is acting like the regen buff is worth losing a charge. the damage buffs were fair, but riot is nerfing aatrox acting like he will just scale super hard later and it will even out, AATROX IS A EARLY-MID GAME SNOWBALL CHAMPION, meaning getting 40% cdr so e is on decent cool down and up when I need it is irrelevant, l8 game champs will outclass him and kite him out, riot has to give something back, return the q damage as a reward for landing it with such a crappy e set up, revert e back or at least increase the passive and range on it to compensate for not having it available for so long. I am completely disappointed in how riot handled aatrox, I was super happy with the rework but now I wish you all would have just left him alone. FIX HIM we aatrox mains deserve better than this garbage.

Minimac20001 votes

Uhhhhhh, w is only a joke if you have a dash

bluefire mark 24 votes

No, you can legitimately walk out of it unless aatrox hits you with a q as you try to walk out. As an aatrox player and having played against him, yeah. It is easy to get out of until its slow scales late. But by then you've gotten speed too, so it doesn't matter.

Lûxu2 votes

facts

TheDevice3 votes

my baby boy... my beautiful baby boy...

what have they done to you?

Darkneslso2 votes

I feel like Riot balancing team nerf a champion only in the slightest in the next patch after they become strong, 5 movement speed Irelia, then when their eyes finally see how strong the champion is they decide to bring the hammer and nerf them into the ground or take away their uniqueness.

Player3421 votes

finally, hes been pick or ban in both lcs and soloq for freaking months

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