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Aatrox Counters?

LelsersLasers·8/5/2019, 4:58:01 AM·1 votes·2,429 views

Okay I was wondering what style of champion do you play to counter Aatrox. I was thinking either a champion like Akali, Mordekaiser, or Neeko.

Akali: high burst and good mobility. Can use E to dodge the sweet spots of Aatrox’s Qs and W to get close and trade. But this doesn’t seem ideal to me as one sweet Q and you are dead and as an assassin you have to be able to 1 shot/combo someone and against Aatrox you can’t do that.

Mordekaiser: The ideal is to fight back not dodge around like Akali. If Aatrox goes in to trade, E > Q > AA and fight back after your passive is Proc-ed. This doesn’t seem ideal though, as Aatrox our damages you and our heals you.

Neeko: high range and poke, decent waveclear. You want to use your range advantage to poke out CS and hopefully take the tower if you can’t kill Aatrox. But if you get hit by an Aatrox Q sweet spot, you die, and you have limited in combat movement. So if Aatrox gets on top of you, you die.

So which of these Champion styles would be the best vs Aatrox? Note this is for the STYLE not specific champion.

Thanks, LelsersLasers

21 Comments

Pyrosan8/5/2019, 5:27:07 AM2 votes

Kled's one of his hardest counters

Shmeeve8/5/2019, 6:16:50 AM2 votes

Ornn

The Ecdysiast8/5/2019, 5:31:47 AM1 votes

None of them. Why did you not even attempt to look up his counters before asking?

Top would be Malphite, Fiora, and Illaoi.

Malphite takes very little damage from him, and with the MS slow on his Q he's pretty much impossible to hit with sweet spots.

Fiora can dance around the first 2 Q's with her Q, and parry the third Q every time for the stun.

Illaoi beats his healing, and he isn't mobile enough to leave her effective range if he tries to fight.

saphireflame1238/5/2019, 6:11:29 AM1 votes

Well, just play someone with heavy damage that can easily evade all of his Q's.

JimTheSnail8/5/2019, 4:55:31 PM1 votes

Anyone with a nice amount of mobility. You need to be able to dodge aatrox Qs easily. So like Irelia, Kled, Jax, Renekton, Fio, and Riven. In Jax case he also dodges aatroxs initial auto so in theory teemo could be okay against him but teemo doodoo.

Polaris I8/5/2019, 5:08:36 AM1 votes

Irelia, tanky bruisers with mobility since they can’t be one shot but also have the mobility to engage and disengage

iiGazeii8/5/2019, 5:22:34 PM1 votes

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Tailypo8/5/2019, 5:18:25 AM1 votes

Uh....definitely NOT akali.