Why people think Aatrox is bad

A LOT of people think Aatrox is a "Bad" champion, who can't do shit, that he's easily punished or countered. I find the that to be total nonsense. And I think the reasoning for why people think Aatrox is bad is because 99% of people don't know how to play Aatrox. People always go these full lifesteal builds, and trying to cheese there way out of lane by maxing E early and poking the enemy. That is not at all how you play Aatrox; That would be the equivalent of trying to build Tanky on an Adc and expecting to do well.

Let me give a short guide on How To Play: Aatrox

1: Build TANKY first and DAMAGE second; Follow this build in Order

• This build should generally land you in a good spot if you are doing decently in lane; While I opt for things like Rageblade at some point, you should only ever build that if you are very far ahead.

2: Don't all in someone until lvl 6 AND you are ahead

• To often do I see people all in as Aatrox at early lvls trying to get cheese kills because of his passive, more often then not you're going to die or just drastically lose the trade, its better to just take small trades, farm, heal, and go in for small trades again. Slowly building up your lead to just demolish them at lvl 6 when Aatrox deals a lot.

And thats about it to playing Aatrox, there isn't much to him at all; Which is why it confuses me that people think he's terrible/bad/shit etc. Follow these 2 simple steps and you'll be smashing with Aatrox, he's strong if you just play/build him correctly.