Aatrox mini rework (SO FAR)
Was really happy to see the announcement about Aatrox mini rework, really was, but since they couldn't get the balance first try here are some thoughts on this Aatrox mini rework so far, his abilities have their strength with the shift from magic damage to physical damage. But his passive overall depletes far too quickly and it forces him to stay in combat with someone and this can be pretty difficult being many champions these days has a jump or blink. His q also has relatively the same high cool down even at a high amount of skill points put into it so that was a big part of what was supposed to allow him to keep on top of targets with high escape. The windowed power on his passive giving him base ad and attack speed is nice, but as i said he has to stay on his target if he wants to keep it without having it deplete extremely quickly losing stats and the ad doesn't really scale. I'd like to gank with buffs rather with no buffs. Not only this but this Guardian Angel animation is strange to show when the passive is available I think it would be easier to have a red bar instead which is what us Aatrox players are familiar with, because after he revives and has a full blood well if and only if he has targets around him to fend off, it shows a red bar which is very misleading and looks like we have a revival passive (which is what we are used to). Not only this he has to apparently have that window to be able to activate his passive revive upon taking fatal damage while it is off cool down. It's great he retains the blood well after revival of 3 seconds but that is only if the targets are basically almost on top of him and that is some very easy counter play for everyone to know to just not get near him then jump or blink on him when he revives. The w does not do as much healing even though it does do 5% healing but doesn't heal the same as before and they are now promoting this juggernaught build as I see it. Aatrox was supposed to be a fighter that has a lot of life steal. I know these numbers won't be final as yet (DEFINITELY HOPE NOT) and he is probably going to get a complete rework when the diver update comes later on this year but a good amount of this is quite an upsetting nerf as an Aatrox main and many other mains on the Aatrox main page. I hope some changes will be made because the change list for him so far is a little off from being a fix. Thank you. 