why did riot rework aatrox?

PlsBuffAatrox·May 9, 2019·1 votes·1,679 views

ive never played with old aatrox, but im curious, why did riot reworked him? what was the problem with him?

7 Comments

RallerenPMay 9, 20195 votes

As for with most reworked champions, there was a couple of issues they wanted to fix.

Keep in mind, this is in general. Not all these points will apply to all people:

Boring to play
Boring to play against
Too hard to balance, either extremely strong or extremely weak
Outdated kit

AbandonMay 10, 20191 votes

I would agree with all points except the third because they didn't spend that much time balancing him so calling it 'too hard to balance' is a bit of a cop out. He was literally playable/viable every since his mini-rework and was only too strong once people abused the buffed rageblade, titanic + conqueror interaction.

MrEndsMay 14, 20191 votes

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As for with most reworked champions, there was a couple of issues they wanted to fix.

Keep in mind, this is in general. Not all these points will apply to all people:

Boring to play

Boring to play against

Too hard to balance, either extremely strong or extremely weak

Outdated kit

i know u said that this will not always apply to all people, but you are insane if u say hes boring to play (this is a joke post dont take it seriously even though i believe in what i say) [vayne-pose]

Shrek LuigiMay 9, 20191 votes

a lot of his hypothetical Power-Budget--the metric of which how champions compare to one another, from a balance-perspective--was dumped into self-healing, and there was no way to balance that element of his kit without him being completely oppressive across a fair number of matchups. its a problem a lot of champions with high sustain have had to deal with--Vlad & Swain were intentionally undertuned for the longest time, because when they were "balanced" they choked-out the toplane champion pool and made otherwise-decent champions almost unplayable.

KidnapperMordeMay 9, 20191 votes

he was a melee adc, and since that's statcheck they removed him

Kaisa is fine though Vayne too

MavëríckMay 9, 20191 votes

From what I understand, he never had a meta that favored him and his play rate was awful. When the meta shifted in his favor and he was revealed as very OP, Riot had already decided to rework him for the former reasons. It was a perfect storm.