I tried to like the new Aatrox, I REALLY tried. But i just can't.

Evil Jester·9/28/2018, 5:38:24 AM·3 votes·1,889 views

So before his rework I hit mastery 5 with Aatrox obviously not a huge accomplishment mind you but I liked his old kit. This rework in my opinion was just a huge nerf, his passive looks strong but has a huge CD for what it's worth, not to mention it's so easy to waste it if you planned to farm rather you're top or jungle. The new Q gives him less mobility, his knock up is a lot less reliable, less AOE, and has a lot less impact in team fights, and the new dash they gave him I feel was a huge joke, I just don't see a point In gaining some bonus AD for a measly 1.5 seconds with literally the shortest dash distance in the game. Then there is his ult witch use to work passively but now depends on a small delay before you can attempt to use it meaning you can press R repeatedly but if they are quick enough they can shut you down before it's activation.

Don't get me wrong, I am all for fairness and balance, old aatrox did have some balance issues in regards to his old passive and healing, I admit to this, but every single thing about this rework feels like he was just way over tuned, and became something he wasn't meant to be. He hardly resembles the old Aatrox at all and I feel Riot could make some changes to make him feel more familiar to the old Aatrox were all so used to.

2 Comments

MLDzXnRRR9/28/2018, 11:40:10 AM1 votes

RIOT doesn't care, Aatrox was in top unpopular champs of the game, so it wasn't selling skins and wasn't played. There was no point in having him in the game. The game is still alive only because shit that sell consistently like Yasuo, Lee, Thresh, Lucian, Ez, Lux, Ahri, Jhin etc - , not aatrox, ivern, morde, reksai and whatever. They probably got more out of him immediately after the rework than what they earned by selling aatrox skins for many years... About the rework - the only bad thing is that it was hyped and expected as something good - we got poor and unbalanced kit that is problematic, because of the revive and being somewhat hard to play, because every meta champ is mobile and can get away from the new boy...

KidnapperMorde9/29/2018, 8:47:18 PM1 votes

I wish this new aatrox was remade into a new darkin with a warhammer (we need more of those) then they bring back real aatrox. boom ez