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improvement on Aatrox's current state

pee jugs·3/15/2017, 7:53:15 AM·1 votes·1,013 views

Please Red hear me now! I know you guys are like the treants in LOTR but Aatrox needs immediate attention.

I honestly enjoy his changes about the same as I enjoyed him unchanged. However, we are very close to seeing him in the best spot he's been in since induction.

A few -reasonable- suggestions.

Revert E (Blades of Torment) back to magic damage and give it back the AP ratio. This will enable him to interact with armor stacking. This is important because of the prevalence of auto-attack debuffs from items and abilities which itemize armor. It even makes sense logically, it's a spell which is magical, therefore should do magic damage. Revert the AP ratio to allow flexibility with itemization. I know this suggestion is counter-intuitive to the effectiveness of Black Cleaver on Aatrox now, but please for the sake of imagination. Guinsoo's is still really good on him, and the ratios allow for maximization of item stats.

This might seem slightly unreasonable, but allow E stacks to give bloodwell charges which do not decay. Allowing for more access to this blood rush steroid. It makes sense because now E is the only ability which costs health, so it's return should be more rewarding even if it misses or simple is used to gain a stack. Also, once Aatrox is forced to poke farm with E cause he's getting zoned (always lol) it gives him something to work with and keep his bloodwell passive somewhat healthy in the likely event that he gets dove. Being dove with no stacks and no possibility of your passive revive is pretty depressing.

Now that we've discussed changes to his E now let's discuss the loss of his innate attack speed. This is monumental to his success. Aatrox's autoattack is so clunky now with no attack speed. So many autoattacks get canceled because his animation is -SO SLOW- that you have to stand still and wait until the hit registers before you can move again which kills his chasing potential.

He needs innate attack speed buff somewhere, that was his thing! (a rapidly decaying 4 second steroid doesn't count) In order to stay healthy he needs attack speed. A quicker auto-attack animation similar to Fiora's will also ensure that he connects with his basic attacks.

I will continue to make edits to this post with more suggestions and hopefully we can be heard.Aatrox

6 Comments

Apocalypsic3/15/2017, 8:42:12 AM3 votes

His auto anim as pretty slow, increasing how fast it is would actually be great for him as an auto reliant champ.

badooga3/15/2017, 4:04:50 PM2 votes

Aatrox has always been very weak to two things: burst damage and CC, which are high in the current meta. I think that giving some tenacity to either his passive steroid or to his ult active would do him some good, and now that building tank is optimal, Aatrox should be able to cover his weaknesses a bit better.

pee jugs3/17/2017, 4:05:42 AM1 votes

Another idea could be that after he uses an ability and gets a stack, regardless of in-combat or not, there is a "grace period" where the decay will be prevented for X amount of seconds, preserving his current stacks and allowing better management of them overall.

pee jugs3/19/2017, 2:33:22 AM1 votes

Another idea is that his bloodwell remains like the old way and revives him without having met the requirements. This has to be the most frustrating thing about the new Aatrox. If you're getting bullied in lane and have no means to sustain your bloodwell passive then you're gonna get dove and die repeatedly without ever having the CHANCE to utilize the revive. Atleast with old aatrox if you're getting bullied there was a chance that they would dive you and make a mistake that you could possibly punish to get back into the game, but now it's just oppressive feeding more into the "feast or famine" problem which plagues him

His stacks would be red when his passive was available and white when it was on cd.. Also give bloodrush an animation!! not some GA particles