He just feels incomplete without the calm demeanor of an ancient warrior who fuels on blood. Now he's a guy yelling while being another riven. Nobody asked for this... It's a travesty. He's less of a fighter who triumphs over long battles and more of someone who Riven mains play when their champ is banned.
I'll say it again: if you defend this, you also defend your main getting deleted from the game forever and replaced by another champion. I'm not an Aatrox main and never liked the champion but this is the worst rework Riot has ever done.
He plays nothing like Riven, he's not mobile...I see what you mean but believe me.. A Riven player would be better off with Camille, Irelia or Fiora.
Honestly the nail in the coffin for me is that his early game is horrible compared to now, and instead he is a late game scaler. Reworks are meant to keep elements of the core character, but they gutted his sustained combat with long CD's, made him want to stand far away from the enemy instead of right next to them, gutted his healing, pushed him completely away from being an AS oriented champ, replaced his amazing voice with something that I can barely understand the words of, and finally completely pushed him out of his niche as a strong early game champ who snowballs or falls off hard for something that is completely the opposite.
There is nothing about the new Aatrox that (as a fairly frequent Aatrox player) that makes me want to transition into playing him. I see nothing about old Aatrox that I enjoyed in the new Aatrox, and I am left wondering why I would even want to play the new Aatrox as an old Aatrox player. Katarina honestly feels closer to old Aatrox than the new one does, which is why I feel like this rework failed so hard.
Yeah man, it's almost like he got reworked or something
I love it.
The current aatrox requires some thought when playing him. Its not just hey I'm going to stand still and aa and win. Knowing when to engage, managing blood pool, and hitting your q or e determine if you win or not. He might not be the most difficult champion, but he isn't as easy as everyone makes him out to be. Easily countered. People in plat and above know how to play against him.
And with his ult, at least I can kite/auto like an adc. It adds something beyond mindlessly autoing.
Thats what happens when you change a champion's gameplay, lore, identity, behaviour... The could have just deleted Aatrox and released this guy as someone else instead.
Tbh Completely honest, I could put his VO to the side but his kit is just bad compared to the old one. It is not unique at all, It's basiclly copy paste from other champions. His old Q is now somewhat takes place in his 3rd combo Q, His W is just... Bad..., His E(Dash And Passive) So unoriginal and does NOT fit his character and the worst offender, His damn ultimate. They just made him big tbh because it's cool, I loved old Aatrox because of his kit and how he felt like a damn hyper killing machine but now his a "Warrior" that takes him time, When I saw the cinimatic I thought of mobility and speed, We got non of that, His E is horrible, His Ultimate Is Horrible, His W is Horrible And his Q is decent... Please don't release him to the public even if he is good in game, I want to see my favourite character again not this basic template champion.
i have been waiting for this rework for such a long time. Looking forward for it so i can spam my level 7 but now i am ashamed to even press ctrl+6. For this long time they had they just ruined the champion. I will enjoy old aatrox a bit more on live servers while i still can cause when his rework gets on live servers ill need to find a new main.
They straight up pulled a Karma on him.
He surely needed major changes, but I never expected to not only get his kit wrong (Ability based with Cooldown focus instead of auto-attacking) but also his personality (from stoic harbinger of war to your stereotypical edgy demonlord).
It feels like the guy responsible for reworking him played DOOM and was like "Mmmmm...."
The old aatroz was one dimensional and impossible to balance with no levers to tune. I know people like those older more simplistic kits but for this game to move forward kits like that gotta go.
Have to respectfully disagree: This new aatrox is going to be one of the highest skill capped top laners. Im extremely hyped to start maining this champion. And tbh, he's only a little bit different. His new W is literally just his old E but with more swag. His Q and E no are quite similar to his old Q. And his passives sort of make up for his W. His old passive is just in his ult now. Champs actually pretty similar. Just way harder to play. Im so pumped to pick up this new champ.
They delete the old aatrox in fact
this aatrox reminds me of megas xlr episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KeFpNTzz38
I love his new voice over, his kit is no longer an AA spamfest, and they got rid of the weird tri-edge sword. It's a 100% improvement in my opinion.
