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Buffs/QoL fixes for aatrox

Please Die·12/6/2016, 9:53:24 PM·2 votes·543 views

Hello whichever rioter might end up seeing this.

With the preseason come and go and nothing in the patch notes or pbe yet for aatrox after what was said in the ask riot about him months ago, the aatrox community (subreddit, discord, and club) is a little concerned that he is being ignored again. Especially since recently on the boards Meddler said he hoped that aatrox would be looked at by february.

We understand that his kit is slightly overloaded and if he had the numbers he deserved he would likely be much too strong, but the preseason changes to fervor have made him even weaker than he was before. Most of us do not feel that he needs a large scale rework to be brought to a healthier place, so we have come up with a list of small buffs/QoL changes that would help him feel more rewarding to play without significantly (in most cases) affecting his overall power. We would appreciate if you could give him another look for next patch to bring him up to par until you can decide what you want to do with him. (Diver update?)

**Meant to be looked at individually, not altogether

**Not in order of importance, but I starred the ones I personally think are most important

General:

-*Slightly better base hp/armor (pops too easily when passive is not up) -Reduce %health costs or change to flat costs -Increase auto range to 175 but keep current ulted range -New skin please Kappa

Passive:

-Revert previous attack speed nerf -*Keep w stacks upon reviving -Refresh basic ability cooldowns upon falling into passive (probably too strong)

Q:

-*Ascension uninterruptable (but still targetable) -*Faster animation based on distance covered (almost not worth using in some 1v1s) -Wider knockup radius or slow in outer circle (it’s too unreliable for a main engage tool) -Health cost on landing (so if interrupted no health is lost) -Shorter CD

W:

-Increase base scaling on thirst so there's a purpose in maxing it situationally (maybe reduce ad scaling at the same time) -Reduce or delete health cost on price (the trade off should be heal or damage not taking damage as well) -Change price to %hp damage so that tank aatrox is viable (I prefer to build ad so not sure if I agree with this) -Make price deal magic damage so it’s harder to itemize against (this makes some items less viable though so not sure about it) -Small decaying move speed buff on pricing a champion

E:

-*Fix hitbox so people standing on top of you don’t accidentally dodge the damage sometimes -Increase ad scaling so it’s more than a mediocre slow later in the game -Or scale the slow/duration with ad to bring a little more reliable utility

R:

-*Cleanse on activation (similar to alistar's ult) -Immunity to grievous wounds for duration of ult (with nearly every mid buying morellos he gets gimped without them actually going out of their way to counter him which kinda blows) -Short (~0.5-1s) fear OR silence on activation (not sure about this) -Remove cast time

Thanks,

-The few surviving Aatrox mains

3 Comments

dimiondo12/6/2016, 10:23:25 PM1 votes

Yeah I feel your pain. It sucks to play him at the moment. Everyone and everything rolls over you in lane. And better yet if you don't do well in lane your a cannon minion for the rest of the game.

I don't want him to be buffed too hard however, because some like the increased q stun would make him problematic, just a few small things like reverting the attack speed nerf that gimped him in the first place and hopefully a small buff to the small amount of base stats should be enough to make him viable to play again without being a problem.

Its necessary to know that the game has changed since riot deemed aatrox unable to be balanced. Everyone has cc now, mobility and damage creep are at a all time high, and grievous wounds are cheap to get making him extremely weak at the moment. To put this in perspective. Only people who love aatrox at the moment are playing him. And they have a negative winrate at the champion, it is the exact opposite that should be happening. A low population should equal a higher winrate as they are experienced at playing that champ. Look at karthus for example.

Anyway hopefully a rioter sees this and actually decides to help out a champ that was neglected for 3 full years and could potentially be balanced in the current meta.

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Commander Javik12/7/2016, 11:27:55 AM1 votes

I'm sorry to say it , but you should abandon any hope that you have my friend . In ferbruary , they will say that the divers class update is coming so they will not touch him .