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