Aatrox 5.6, the most meta tilting buff to hit the rift
Us aatrox players have to be thankful for what we can get right? Sense apparently this guy hadn't been touched for like a full two seasons or something crazy like that but whatever. On to the buff. Its so insignificant and underwhelming a buff its so hard to notice. (For those of you who don't know when he ults now he gains 20% of his bloodwell for each champion hit.) Most of the time aatrox goes to jump into a whole team or teamfight he’s either been farming camps or doing the only thing he can slightly do right now which is split push and coming right from another lane so his well is ALREADY full. The most significant scenario to even utilize the buff would be jumping into a fight right after re spawning or something when your well is empty. If this is the case your passive is down and your probably not very strong anyway cause you've been feeding trying to stay alive in the jungle or top. Regardless all you’re going to accomplish is getting kited to holy hell and exploding again, tanky bruiser or not. Right now as aatrox it's either build damage and do damage to towers until they three man you and shut you down top, or try and go 1 ad item bruiser and do literally zero damage with terrible scaling and still get completely outclassed by better champs. I don't know what riot can do to help this champ but the design is cool and I like the champ I just dont like trying so hard with him for so little reward. Flame me if you will, but the only reason I'm bitching is because sometimes I feel like I deserve like a starting gold handicap when I lock in this champion. I'd like to hear my fellow summoners ideas on Aatrox and champion balance in the game.