Aatrox is hot dumpster juice.

He's ok. Not good, but ok. You're certainly not losing games just because you pick Aatrox.

A rioter responded on Reddit a while back, basically saying that it's intentional. They won't buff Aatrox such that his winrate goes above 45% because if he's meta, or even good, toplane becomes cancer.

So he'll continue to be garbage until his rework.

Are kept weak as hell because sustain is annoying.

Yet they happily allow for ANY AD to get serious sustain with 0 gold investment via warlords bloodlust.

Have you seen Akali? She literally got one of the biggest nerfs in League of legends History on 6.22

Well, dumpster juice or not, it's best served cold.