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Did Riot even test the Aatrox changes?

Masked Pariah··13 votes·1,571 views

The Aatrox rework seriously sucks and Riot is not even admitting that what they did to him made him so weak to even be played correctly to how THEY wanted him to be built and played as and to how to AATROX PLAYERS wanted him to be played as. They kill 2 birds with one stone I guess.,,

They claim that when Aatrox was ahead in his old kit that "He was a God of War dishing out a whole teams worth of damage, and once you finally killed him that his revive would be up and you will have to blow everything you have just to kill him again." What the fuck? That has not happened at all and I played him on release and im damn sure I played more than 700 games on him and let me tell ya AATROX WHEN PLAYED CORRECTLY HAD TO PUT IN MORE WORK TO GET THE SAME RESULTS AS OTHER TOP LANE FIGHTERS.

New Aatrox is weaker. They punish you for not getting 4 tank items because then you heal is dog shit, his blood price does so little damage, the passive falls off to hard, weak base stats (it was fine before because old passive was reliable with the AS you got), and his new passive is not rewarding when you get it off and I dont feel like the "God of War" when I get it but instead I feel like only 90% of the old Aatrox. His E still has Bonus AD scaling which kinda makes it off putting to build attack damage because riot only had his healing good if you build tank, and if I do build tank I do 0 dmg and If I build Brusier with 1 or 2 defensive items I still die to fast.

Thank Riot for ruining m favorite champion because of your ego and pride to fix what is right and to admit you are wrong cough flex que cough

17 Comments

maimo214 votes

I fully agree with Masked Emperor. Aatrox is ruined gents. Like he wasn't hard enough to play already! Now, I find myself constantly looking at my bloodwell bar and cannot get focused on the game. Like you didn't need to be focused with the usage of your 'w' before. THUMBS DOWN FOR THIS CHANGE RIOT, please do something! All he needed was a bit more sustainability late levels and not to find yourself doing 8-0 and then killed easily 1v1 at level 14-16 from a level 11..He also lost his only advantage in my humble opinion which was very early harassment top with ignite against almost everyone with tp..I predict that if Aatrox stays like this, he will be picked up from fewer and fewer players..I really like the way Masked Emperor described the changes to Aatrox as forcing the player to certain build (attack speed orientated)..as opposed to the freedom before..he is spot on..

Failog3 votes

WHy is this downvoted? Riot screw up so hard, and we have every right to excoriate them for it. We are the customers. Their jobs exist because WE PLAY THE GAME. So fuck off to all of you Riot drones who attack anyone who criticizes Riot.

BlastRush1 votes

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Hethalean2 votes

They just need to bitch and cry and make horrible accusations about Riot since that's their only emotional coping mechanism to deal with their frustration for losing a game or two.

Masked Pariah4 votes

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They just need to bitch and cry and make horrible accusations about Riot since that's their only emotional coping mechanism to deal with their frustration for losing a game or two.

Sorry but when you do the math he is alot weaker and doesnt work the way RIOT wanted him to play or the way AATROX PLAYERS wanted him to play. Its wrong both ways

Hethalean1 votes

While he is weaker, there are a few things to consider.

  1. Riot has already admitted that he is weaker than they expected and are planning on hot fixing some buffs in.

  2. The entire point was to make Aatrox a less feast/famine drain tank. This way he would be much easier to balance, and would be able to get buffs as needed to make viable. This would resolve the issue that he was in before with an unhealthy kit that was virtually impossible to balance so he was left mothballed.

  3. I'm not sure what Aatrox players wanted because none of them seemed to agree on the boards. I usually read them since I liked Aatrox myself and was genuinely curious at player thoughts. Honestly besides the reworked passive and health costs on it. He seems to be fairly similar again.. except for the passive buff that you have to work for to get in a fight and to gain access to your passive.

  4. I wasn't talking about Aatrox balance what so ever.

Failog4 votes

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/EMl48IwP-patch-75-revisiting-aatrox-post-has-20k-views

Read my post, this is the mindset of Aatrox players. And if you actually mained and followed Aatrox over the years, there is a general consensus of what we wanted changed about him.

Hethalean1 votes

You can't pretend to say there is a general consensus amongst the POSTS that Aatrox 'mains' make. I'll admit that there is going to be a fine distinction between the two, and maybe you're not including people who clearly don't main him... However, as a person who isn't a main (just a fan), it's not like I'm going to be able to point out the differences between general mains and others. I've read over a hundred, and they are all over the place. The post linked being a lot more constructive and not just a bitch fest.

Failog3 votes

I don't include people clearly don't main him. I don't understand people. Even if I had 100 or 200 ranked games with a champion, I would not put in my 2 cents about a change to that champion. I wouldn't even read the posts. It takes many more games to experienced all the nuanced situations from the different team comp matches up to understand, really, what the real problems are. And that is something no on at Riot who had any say about these changes had.

Failog5 votes

Losing a game or two? Yeah THATs why we are complaining. Not because Riot ignored 2 years of input from Aatrox players and destroyed him. Its becuase we are little bitches with few coping mechanisms. Go the fuck away dude.

Hethalean1 votes

See the thing is. If people making these whine posts had coping mechanism, they would look a lot more constructive and a lot less bitchy which is how their anger comes out in these posts and not in a constructive post. "They" not being Aatrox mains though the context is unclear. It was people making the bitch posts that offer nothing but help.

Failog4 votes

We have been posting constructive ideas for 2 years. It got us nowhere, Riot basically slapped us in the face with these changes. So now we are going to complain. Its quite simple really, and quite justified. If you don't life it, don't read the Aatrox posts.

DonkeyBalls3 votes

Or you could view what he is saying as the truth, and admit that the way he is saying it is what the situation warrants. Every champion has some devout players, and none of them like to see their favorite fkd royally the way Riot fkd Aatrox.

Masked Pariah6 votes

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Every single post about this is basicly the same thing, we dont really need to hear it again

its my fav champ. I have the right to post and its ignorant to downvote because of it

Failog3 votes

Yes we do. Riot does. This is not acceptable. They knew he was weak in PBE. There was no god damn reason to release him in this state and waste our fucking time. Riot needs to have a little more of backbone and hold themselves accountable. Whoever thought these changes were good should pretty much be fired. Why should his judgement ever be trusted. It was shit judgement.

MaggyMage1 votes

I agree. Aatrox was my main, but he got nerfed and now i cant play him anymore. I cant stack my passive full so i can get revived and because of tjat i now just feed when i play him. Before i got a 20/2 or something as him now i get lime 0/22. That ismt fun becayse i get reporyed for feed. ;(

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