Riot, if you haven't seen this yet

I broke it down on another thread, but I'll tell ya here. He was an amalgamation of Anivia, Xin Zhao, and Yi, with every similarity being a weakened version thereof:

Passive: Couldn't fully heal like Anivia, and provided only as much AS as Xin's W after a prolonged fight with his healing turned off. Slight rework only made it so you have to do a prolonged fight for the revival as well.

Q: Less reliable version of Xin's E-Q combo, with the fact it was only one ability offset by the easy of dodging it and nearly a third the damage.

W: Weaker than Xin's on both healing and damage, but forced you to choose between them whereas his provided both every third hit.

E: Anivia's Q with lower damage, range, and no stun.

R: Aside from basically one auto attack's worth of damage in an AoE, was only an AS boost weaker than Yi's. Minus the reduction of basic ability cooldowns, immunity to slows and cripples, and possibility of extending the duration.

He was never a good on-hit fighter because Xin could provide all his strengths, but better. And in situations where Xin wasn't preferred, every other option was better than Aatrox since the differences between Aatrox and Xin were weaknesses of Aatrox, not strengths.

It's purely coincidence that a brand new rune suits the fact they removed the cost from Aatrox's damaging W. Two months sooner, or two months from now, old Aatrox would've been back to the bottom thanks to the lack of the overpowered Conqueror.

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