Aatrox jungle gutted for no good reason... again....

Vicarious117·3/4/2019, 11:31:57 PM·2 votes·1,830 views

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.

3 Comments

Ragnaveil3/4/2019, 11:38:53 PM1 votes

His laning dominance WAS the problem. What has gotten exactly nerfed between Worlds last year and this recent nerf? His E and Q. Apparently designing a Juggernaut to have two dashes and 3 things of micro cc that also does bonus damage on top of having minion and damage sustain isn't a bad idea. Like, people bitched before he got nerfed that his Q was too strong. Its the only ability he has that does anything. E and W feed into Q.

This is kinda what happens when you try to change a champion too much from a design that could have been modernized with large changes. Not to mention possibly drifting away from the original purpose.