Aatrox Revive removal? Bad decision.

ÅåtrôxTheNerfed··3 votes·2,350 views

Aatrox Aatrox has been a champion of life-stealing and reviving for ages because it fits his lore and his background. After his rework, many players criticized that he was a copypasta version of Riven. I mean, they were kinda wrong because he had a completely different playstyle. And a completely different role in team fights.

But this upcoming change, combined with changes you guys made in the last few patches.... he is riven, a shitter version of riven.
Am I wrong? Three q, a cc on W, a dash on E, an ult that gives attack damage.....

Tell me, how is aatrox gonna be different from riven? He is gonna be the same I-charge-in-and-kill-everyone, the only difference is that he heals himself instead of shielding himself (Riven).

You didn't kill the champ. He's still good. He's still going to be viable in ranked. But he's gonna be a shittier riven.

Yes, you heard me. He's gonna be a shitter riven. He's gonna be a champion with no core gameplay. He's just gonna become a shitter version of one of the best snowballer in the game.

Congrats.

You did it again.

First with rengar, then with aatrox. Bravo. If you all play the game at all, you will know that the best way to rework this ult is not to remove the revive. It's to give him a pool that he needs to fill up with damage to others depending on his health (For example, after ult's activation, he needs to do damage that equals to his a percentage of his health before he gets a revive. I.E. aatrox with 3000 health needs to do at least 300 or 1000 damage to get his revive) So that just an assist to a kill wouldn't help him much. Just my two cents.

5 Comments

Fear the Kayn7 votes

Riot's constant pandering to pro players is/will be the downfall of this game.

Teh Song2 votes

No matter what else is done, Aatrox should always maintain his revive. I don't care if he gets a whole new set of abilities, he should keep the revive through the rework, because he is Aatrox and Aatrox is the champion that revives. Sion is the champion that dies in a violent rage, Anivia is the champion that respawns, Zac is the champion that regrows, and Aatrox is the champion that revives. Except now he's not because what the bloody F Riot!?!?

Whatever problems he had, he needed to be balanced around having the revive, not just remove it.

ÅåtrôxTheNerfed2 votes

The problem with his ult right now, is that it's broken. On activation, Aatrox gets a buffed Spirit Visageitem 3065 , then he gets a shitter version of item 3026 even if he just touched a champion with an auto.

To balance him, riot needs to make the ult harder to achieve. Give it a damage pool that needs to be filled within 10 seconds (maybe 2000 damage or something.), each kill or assist gives 5 more second for aatrox to deal damage. That way, he doesn't snowball as hard, and he's not just gonna be impossible to kill after your stupid adc stands in front of him while he did the half of his combo.

And I totally agree. I love Aatrox, not just because what he as a champion brings to the table, it's also the way the lore defines him. He's the darkin that cannot die. He's the darkin that won't die.

Now? He's the darkin that copied a child's dance (Riven! Dance, Child. That broken blade is no match for me...).

I mean, another solution, is to give him an item called "Darkin blade" or something. Like Victor's thingy, it evolves as he kills people. Maybe if he gets all 5 kills or something his ult evolves into an ult with a revive....

Or riot can give his passive something like "host acquired", with enough kills/assists, he masters his blade better blah blah blah thus gaining the ability to revive on ult. That way riot doesn't have to balance that extra item.

Either way, his identity will be preserved.

Alphaslayer2 votes

true sounds like a good idea, but could be better if they just get rid of his assist part in his revive since that is op since I can let my team mates kill one person while I chase another and if he dies I get the assist and I can run after him with my nimbus cloak activated. now it should only if he get the kill, that what would make Aatrox ult balanced like the rest.

LordGeovanni1 votes

Aatrox's Q and e was copy paste of riven. Some of his ult too the diffrent play style is the restrictions on aatrox' Q becuase even if we let you have rivens q you cant have it as good as her. PS your idea but with Katarina's passive would be nice.

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