My two cents on Aatrox changes

After thinking about the changes , should we still consider him as a skirmisher/diver ? Those changes turn him pretty much into more of a Juggernaut-ish playstyle considering that he will scale a lot better with HP . The changes are shifting his scaling pretty damn much imo : so far he scaled with AS , AD , LS . Now he will scale with HP , CDR , AS and resistances . I don't have any other arguments to support it .

One thing is clear though , he will be more vulnerable to CC due to his passive and especially his high CD's . It seems logical to me that 40% cdr should be a must have now in order to spam the E that has a 4.8s CD at rank 5 with the amount of cdr mentioned . With the bork changes , the enemies shouldn't be able to kite you that easy since the move speed move can be increased to 6s . Another sure thing is that they'll have to burn flash if they would like to escape . But that's a 1v1 scenario only .

The early AS loss is what makes me sad about it . We should all consider to add more AS in runes when playing him . Something like 20% should be enough . If you're a maniac , you can go for the 29% as in runes , 'cause yolo xD . More seriously though , the loss of passive AS steroid has weakened his dueling potential since you will have to get those stacks in order to get that AS . Not only we should consider more AS in runes , but also we should consider adding hp/lvl in it .

The builds will change . DRASTICALLY . We won't be obligated to build that much of AD , since he will be more oriented about his base AD . At least that's my opinion . We should also consider to buy an item that may seem to be really fucking powerfull with him , and it's the SHEEN . It seems logical to me due to his passive , but that would mean that you bet all on one card .

There are still some things that need to be done : If you gate the bonus AS to his passive , than you should consider upping his base Attack Speed since his healing comes from autos , and he has a garbage base AS . You should also consider reducing his Q and E cd's since they are pretty high , and extend the duration of his Blood rush passive or lower the decay time because it decays really really fast .

One other change to his passive I would like to propose : Attach the bonus AS steroid to the number of his Blood rush stacks since AS is crucial with Aatrox , and keep the bonus base AD + revive on his new Blood rush mechanic .