Revive Aatrox, Pls Riot
Why do Riot Games keep ignoring Aatrox being miserable and weak? Champion with such an interesting conpect is completely forgotten because of poor realisation. His early game is relatively ok, but he literally cant take part in a teamfights. And right now, after preseason patch realese, Aatrox is 100% unplayable - u cant sustain vs assasins, who burst u in a second. There is no optimal build for him: u cant be useful while building tank (comparing with other bruisers) and each dmg item u build makes tf for u even harder. His spells' cast points are disgustingly slow. Its almost impossible to dodge smth with ur only mobility spell (Q). It should make him untargetable at least. When u die and resurrect with a Blood Well, u lose 30-55% of your AS and, as AA based champ, become even more useless - this is one of his biggest problems. His ult is underpowered too - compare it Riven's one, which lasts longer, got less cd on last level and its really twice as effective as Aatrox one. On top of it, Aatrox is just pathetic without his ult. His last change was in patch 5.11, almost 1.5 year ago. And to be honest since Aatrox's creation 3 years ago he havent received any decent changes. Out of 5 changes there were: 2 nerfs - E dmg nerf and passive AS nerf in patch 3.13 ( 3 years ago) 1 bug fix - patch 4.6 ( almost 3 years ago) 2 small buffs - patch 5.6 R buff and patch 5.11 passive CD buff (almost 1.5 year ago)
And now some stats |
Aatrox last appearances in pro matches: IEM Season IX - Cologne (2014-12-19) - 2 bans in single BO3 game which ended 2-0 2014 World Championship (2014-09-18 - 2014-10-19) - 6 bans (7.7% of total bans) 2014 EU LCS Summer Playoffs (2014-08-07 - 2014-08-17) - 3 bans, 7 picks ( 3W-4L) (38.5% of total P/B)
Aatrox latest patches win rate in EUW Plat and higher by op.gg - http://joxi.ru/n2YzwENiDnJ5A6 Aatrox latest patches pick rate in EUW Plat and higher by op.gg - http://joxi.ru/l2ZVwjJHYeJo2J
Aatrox in patch 6.21 (EUW Plat and Higher by op.gg): Win rate - 47.33% - 45th out 53 top champions Pick rate - 0.47% - 50th out of 53 top champions
Aatrox stats in last month (EUW All divisions by op.gg) - http://joxi.ru/Dr8nqwgc3yX426 (124th out of 133)
And after all of these, his own phrases and all his lore feels like some kind of a mean joke: ''Some fight for honor, some fight for glory. It matters only that you fight.'' -- Aatrox I beg you Riot Games - wake up and revive Aatrox. He was dead for too long now