So the Aatrox changes finally hit live today
Now can we beg Riot to reverse them?!?! My god I have never felt a champion go from kinda bad to worse from something that supposedly was suppose to help them!
Aatrox, to give a brief history, was just one of those champions that I thought looked cool, picked up and just played with him. Now I haven't played him in a while but with his news of an update for him I decided to play a bot game a few days ago just for nostalgia and to then compare the current kit to the rework. And now after testing it a bit on practice mode I'd much rather prefer the old him than this current shit.
His passive....holy fuck how did Riot screw this over so badly?! It no longer gives your attack speed buff when it fills up but only when you hit your stupid blood rush which only lasts 4 seconds, making jg Aatrox's clear speed a nightmare. Yeah it refreshes when you hit or are hit by champions, so it's great for dueling, but outside of that you either need to time it just right to go all in and proc it or proc it early, waste it, and then have the enemy jump you because you don't have it up. Oh yeah and your revive is now also tied in with the blood rush and not the first time you go down when it's off cooldown. -_-
Outside of that little has changed but for the things that have changed it made him worse. Yay, Q and W no longer have health cost and E is now flat amount instead of % (I guess that's good), but Q is still a pretty shit ability to hit with, W's health feels far less effective when at low health (again hurting jg Aatrox), and E's damage to poke with is just....gone. It's gone just vanished. Hell the only thing that they didn't fuck up was his ult, but with the rest of his changes it doesn't really fucking matter.
So, to put it shortly: they made jg Aatrox near unplayable, nerfed his heal so now he has a harder laning phase to sustain from, Q is still a joke, E no longer pokes as it use to, and his passive is complete trash.
Why did these changes get through from the PBE? These didn't put him in a better spot, if anything it's made him worse, if not the worst champ in the game right now. Revert this shit now!!!!!!
