Beseeching Riot (Aatrox) (request riot/meddler read)
Riot, Can you please just read this post, I'm begging you here and take some insight from this, an aatrox fix is honestly legitimately easy and I'm not trying to be confrontational, please reply to me and tell me why these changes wouldn't work if you disagree, but please, all I ask is for a fair read and reply, from meddler if he'd like.
I'll suggest changes below marked under the dividing lines.
Guys, I'm not trying to start a fight here, but what the hell is going on? These changes are completely mad, you clearly have not payed enough attention to this champion and do not understand him or how he plays at all, do you not understand this champions problems?
I've been an Aatrox main for years and ive finally got him to work the last year or so flawlessly, He has a few major big issues, and this patch completely and utterly doesn't address them at all. (except the W blood thrist % thing, but that wasn't really a problem, just an imperfection and tbh it doesn't need changed)
Infact you have changed the only things people DON'T complain about, his W his only real good skill and you've weaked the damage bit and the heal was fine before aswell.
Now his passive Blood well attack speed is gonna be gone too for some gimmicky clunky proc thats gonna be so difficult to manage? And for what? when this "RUSH" is active you have 5% less attack speed than live that you have ALL THE TIME WHEN ITS MAXED and for what 25 BASE ad?
So what 30 AD at level 18? Why the hell would I trade constant attack speed that can be used to farm ultra fast everywhere for 30AD max level maybe gimmickly in a fight? This is screw his jungling and it's an EXTREME NERF on a champion you are meant to be buffing! Also it will screw split pushing towers too!
Just the constant attack speed was fantastic and it works.
Also 5% max hp down from TRIPLE HEALING!? What are you guys thinking!? Apologise to sweet dreams the only challenger aatrox OTP, 40+120 bonus ad from two AD items, tripled is 480!
5% on the other hand of 4000 health is only 200 hp! It's a MEGA NERF! and thats MISSING HEALTH, so only if you're at like 1 HP! LOL?? Are you guys being cruel on purpose? is that why you named aatrox cruelty? as some kind of sick trolling joke? I don't understand...
I've been saying this for years, can a riot member please for once just listen to my suggestions for aatrox and comment on them? I've been making this same suggestion for years and it never gets seen ever, all I'm asking is that you read this and tell me why it's wrong.
Aatrox's main big and tbh only real weakness (1/2 his other being a lesser weakness) is that if you miss Q you WILL be kited, his slow won't stop a gap closer and you'll be infinite kited to death, many people constantly complain that his E is garbage and doesn't fit his character.
It neither helps with catching your pray in a team fight or for most champs with gap closers, it's damage is garbage, it's cooldown is too far high, it's literally actually the slowest moving skillshot in the game, and it's hitbox is also the lowest and hardest to hit.
E - (Blade of Torment/Cruelty) a Xin Zhao like dash, 600 range / 30/25/20/15/10 cooldown / slow 40 for 1/1.25/1.50/1.75/2 seconds. Only target enemy champs so can't be used to escape.
Procs your third auto attack (whichever is toggled, ability changes with your W toggle)
So you can fully commit and dive on a target, stay on them and get a burst of healing or damage, great for a teamfight meleer who suffers most in game from kiting, even more than Nasus.
Implement this and Aatrox is completely and utterly fixed, i gaurentee it, I'll suggest one more change for quality of life and less clunkiness from his Passive revive and thats him PERFECT.
Passive - Same, except on revive his Q and E cooldowns are reset and he gains immunity to C for 0.5 seconds.
This will allow him to make a fair attempt to escape or go in and dive again and fight without his revive being exploited and brutally wasted by enemy cc. it's a 2min 30 sec cooldown at best.
Should sions ult get shutdown by thresh hook?
That is his lesser weakness and this fix above will fix it, easy peezy, FIXED.
All you gotta do is add some effects to his passive, no new model ability making or nothing.
For his new E you can just make it a dash and the animation can be his crit upslice animation (not actual crit)
Hell even his his W hit animation if u like depending on whats toggled.
PLEASE DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE BUT THOSE THINGS, I'D HAPPILY SACK A TINY BIT OF HP FOR MORE DAMAGE ON W