Riot you have 0 reason to not buff Aatrox.

As most of us know, is a champion that is pretty weak and many champions are practically aatrox powercreeps right now. He's honestly horrible right now and even aatrox mains are barely able to get a good winrate on him.

"HIS KIT IS TOXIC YOU UNRANKED TRASH!"

So...? Does removing cds of his skills or giving better scalings to everything but his heal will make him op?

I'll start off with the skills.

Q. Well designed and versatile skillshot with a lot of counterplay... but too much of it. Poor scaling, discourages people to build damage.

W. A worse version of lifesteal and xin's 3 hit because it can't deal damage and heal on same time. It's a worse version of lifesteal since it takes 3 attacks to heal and the ad scaling is meh, and aatrox can't afford to build a lot of ad. It's also just a bad concept: Unlimited sustain with no resource, cooldown or interaction.

E. Generic Skillshot with ap scaling that aatrox can't use. (the ap scaling). The rest is fine.

R. Extremely underwhelming ult that deals some damage (which is none after level 11 unless you go ap) with ap scaling that aatrox can't use (rageblade is bad on him). Doesn't allow him to stick to his targets (unlike yi).

Passive: Free GA with attack speed. Seems op as #@$% on paper but it's pretty horrible in game. His passive only gives you the chance to not get dived or do crazy dives, outside that it's useless. The time it takes for you to revive means after you're out of the animation they can run away or cds will be up again. Also you're out of attack speed thus deal less dmg and heal for less.

Even if aatrox somewhat becomes op (by number buffs nothing else) he would have to be ridiculous in order to be really that strong, since there are so many counters:

CC. No healing or jumping. I might have missed something but when people say you can make zed's ult useless with 1300 gold, you can win laning phase against aatrox by buying tabi's for 1100 gold without losing an item slot.

He'll never be truly op with this kit unless you buff the @!#% outta his numbers to the point where he can use e to harass. His w has a cd technically and the dmg part doesn't benefit from lifesteal. His kit makes that you can't build damage since you'll kill yourself and you're already squishy and going tank will make you lose too much health and have problems regaining it without AD.

Solution? Change the W and Passive. And he'll be a lot easier to balance. Remove the stupid ap scalings that he can't use and increase his ad scalings so he'll punch a bit harder. Give him synergy to crit or lifesteal and rework his kit so it fits his lore christ. Unless he builds every single aoe dmg item in the game he's barely even useful in teamfights and his utility is so low and bad. He needs to have a hard engage and provide (moderate to low) disruption with some aoe as a a bruiser. Get rid of the toxic elements in his kit please. It's not that hard.