Sometimes I wonder how the community would react if other popular champions got the Aatrox treatment

PaffWasTaken·12/22/2019, 8:09:28 PM·5 votes·1,003 views

People like to complain that Aatrox mains complain too much about their champion getting utterly gutted thrice per year, but the more I think about it, the situation would be much more intense if the same situation happened on different champions.

Just imagine Ahri , who's been either a very reliant or a top tier pick for midlane for over a year and a half while having one of the most religiously devoted fanbase amongst every champion, getting smashed into pieces by riot until being forced into a sub 47-48% winrate.

Just imagine Leona , who's been THE best tank support for god knows how long at this point, being dragged all the way from the top to the bottom of the tier list.

Just imagine if every time an ADC becomes too strong, Riot nerfed them instead of buffing everyone else to compete with them.

This is just a very short list and I could add some less powerfull options, but you get the idea. Every time someone cares to defend Aatrox' bad treatment anywhere here, on Reddit or even on youtube videos, this person either gets harassed by people thinking Aatrox "had it easy" compaired to their top tier waifu, or bullied into making him to think that Aatrox deserved it. But the truth is that, if anyone else would get nerfs just as violent as he got, the community uproar would either be the same or far more intense.

Edit: Just even mentioning Ahri being better than Aatrox deserved me some hate from some people lol. I clearly am the fool here, thinking a champ who barely had 52% winrate at his peak for about 2 months and dropped to 45-47% several times is worse than a champ who's been switching between 51-53% winrate for over 2 years while being praised by their religiously docile fanbase. oh wait.

12 Comments

Dope Solo12/22/2019, 8:11:21 PM6 votes

Ahri Korea would go to war.

WoonStruck12/22/2019, 9:40:23 PM3 votes

I mean, Aatrox did deserve it. But Riot still plays favorites.

Morde is arguably more broken than Aatrox was, and Riot hasn't even begun to acknowledge him on the PBE, while low playrate champs with lower winrates and banrates, even at super high MMR, get kicked.

Arammus12/22/2019, 8:50:09 PM2 votes

if they did this to ANY other bruiser or assassin, id do a naked dance in front of riot HQ.

Sir Saltarin12/23/2019, 12:09:17 AM2 votes

Just imagine if every time an ADC becomes too strong, Riot nerfed them instead of buffing everyone else to compete with them.

No ADC has ever been nerfed.

Never.

I like your fanfiction.

Kai Guy12/22/2019, 8:48:50 PM2 votes

"Olaf-ed"

Naymliss12/22/2019, 9:40:06 PM1 votes

Aatrox is popular. He has a higher pickrate than riven:

https://u.gg/lol/champions/aatrox/build https://u.gg/lol/champions/riven/build

CrazyMonkeyCZ12/22/2019, 8:42:24 PM1 votes

Yet he is at least A tier in any serious elo, notice that his playrate is even greater than Ahris.

How does it he has any worse than Ire(same pr and wr, but after 80 games, players still get only around 52% wr, unlike Aatroxs 57%), Akali has it even worse wr-wise. If you want to talk about the real execution of champ, let’s talk TK.

His nerfs were deserved.

So yeah, to put it straight, Aatrox mains are crybabies.

ThunderCraft12/22/2019, 11:18:13 PM1 votes

old aatrox was dished out prolly because he played too much like maliken, garena could issued a cease and dessist letter to riot

Demented Lemur12/22/2019, 8:36:24 PM1 votes

I'd be fine if they changed champions like udyr jax trundle, nocturne to the point of being a different champion. Because all these champion are boring and play out the same way just like aatrox use to.

Old aatrox was a stat check Auto attack based champion with no variation on how you would play him this is a type of champion that should be slowly phased out of the game.

A champ like ahri at least has skillshots and mechanics that make her slightly interesting to play there room for improvemment but it still isnt boring