Aatrox jungle gutted for no good reason... again....
I honestly don't understand why Riot keeps releasing, changing, and reworking a champ thats main theme has always been self-sustain but in multiple cases very obviously nerfed his jungling ability to basically non-existence......
Ever since his release years ago now I've loved playing him in the jungle, and once again Riot has inexplicably nerfed his jungling ability to the point he can hardly make it through his first clear much less actually do anything a jungler should be doing in the early game.
I get he needed nerfs, but why gut his jungling of all things? His early laning dominance was the problem, not his jungling...... fucking tired of Riot just slapping all the Aatrox junglers in the face out of the blue......
You've got champs like Kayne, Gragas, Udyr, and so on who can auto clear the jungle like it's fucking nothing and poses zero damn threat to them, but oh no a champion who has bonus Q damage against large monsters and has a thematic of self-sustain is doing well in lane AND in the jungle? Better make it so he CAN'T jungle!
FFS...... I miss the old Aatrox, even though the new one is better.... so much stigma around playing him now and getting bitched at for trying to jungle him like I'VE ALWAYS DONE is so disheartening.