Can Aatrox get some help?

Lowvyr··1 votes·434 views

You've buffed him multiple times now. He's in a better spot, no doubt, and he actually broke 2% pick rate (item 3070) for once, and almost broke into 4% on sated release. Sadly, for him, that's a fucking miracle. He has so much potential to carry a game, but he has none of the tools he needs to get to the point of being this unstoppable wall of lifesteal and attack speed. That may be a binary game style, but it does have counterplay (and lots of it), and it feels very satisfying to use. Please Riot, this champion has a LOT of potential, he just needs some help reaching his late game fantasy. If you've ever played against a super fed Aatrox, you know what kind of hell he becomes. He HAS to be ahead to do anything, however, unlike certain other snowball champions (I.E. Zed, Rengar, Talon, Riven, LeBlanc, Vayne, etc. etc.) he doesn't have the tools he needs to get fed. To my knowledge, he isn't even meant to be a carry, he's meant to be a supporting tank/duelist. He is neither of those. He's a duelist, but he's extremely selfish to be a team oriented champion. He's a strong lane bully and an amazing duelist, but he has so much counterplay to his very simple kit that it makes it extremely hard to use him. How is it healthy that all they need on a team is a Frozen Heart and he can't do much anymore. If you're going to make him a pure auto attacking champion that is melee, you have to give him something else that still makes him worth it once they build a Frozen Heart or Thornmail. Those two items on a tank makes it impossible for him to kill them.

My ideas for some buffs to Aatrox: Q - Reduce cool down, increase dash speed, make him immune to cc during the animation (ALL cc will hit him after he lands, NOT mid air), and maybe increase the knock up radius a bit. W - Increase the base stats and it'll be fine. E - Increase range, lower cooldown, slightly increase base damage, increase slow % R - Can walk through units, gains 20% lifesteal + 5% per champion hit, gain 15% attack speed for ever champion hit. If enemy hit by ult is alone, the ultimate acts as if they were 5 people. Increase his base stats, too. He has horribly low base stats.

Another idea I have for his ultimate is this: R - Deals damage in a large radius around Aatrox, fearing all enemies hit for 1.25 seconds. Aatrox and his allies gain 50% attack speed, 15% lifesteal, and 25% move speed which increases to 45% when chasing enemies, all of which last for 15 seconds. Lowering the base damage, increasing the cooldown.

What are your ideas for Aatrox buffs?

5 Comments

Prospector Pete1 votes

Don't make it so that if an enemy is hit alone it counts for 5 enemies.

Lowvyr1 votes

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Don't make it so that if an enemy is hit alone it counts for 5 enemies.

What's wrong with that idea?

CppL1 votes

So you want to buff every single spell?? really? He needs some help ,but come on....

Lowvyr1 votes

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So you want to buff every single spell?? really? He needs some help ,but come on....

He kinda needs help on every single one of his spells lmao

Balmor01 votes

His 3 basic abilities except for blood thirst cost him hp. his Q and E scaling is non existent his E doesn't benefit from armor penetration witch make his late game worse. His scaling quite bad. His base stats are because of revive part of the passive witch makes no sense (the revive part) in lore it doesn't mention anything about reviving in the middle of battle. The rive is situational at best when he loses his passive if his team cant win the team fight you are dead it just delays it by a few seconds and he loses all his attack speed boost from the other part of his passive. Get rid of the revive part of the passive make it something that stacks with getting cs assist and kills but caped and bonuses at certain points this will give him late game scaling and allows him to have better basic stats. And i think there are less champions with stacing passives/abilities than there are champions with some sort of revive.

Hear is a link to my previous post where there are other chances that could help him (if you want me to remove the link just say it Lowvyr) http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/YtToMGXY-riot-when-if-ever-are-you-going-to-rework-aatrox

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