7.8 Aatrox jungle is back: solo dragon at 3 minutes, solo baron at 20 minutes.

Sgt Karil·Apr 21, 2017·2 votes·2,397 views

This was all possible for the pre-remake Aatrox, only now the objectives are a bit faster due the base AD from bloodwell. I still think this remake made aatrox even more fame or famine, since when played behind you dont really have changes or time to stack up your passive, and when ahead you can keep ur passive up/at 3-4 stacks pretty easily.

Anyway here is a short montage I completed from a couple of matches playing on 7.8 Aatrox. Feel free to discuss about Aatrox balance changes here!

Runes, masteries and build I use in the picture below. First row of build is what I aim for, second row are situational items that I use to replace anything beside Rage Blade and Bloodrazor https://i.gyazo.com/c1db6af7a29c402de0dfc8a6eec4658a.jpg

7 Comments

MunchCrunchLunchApr 21, 20172 votes

damn. its been over a year since someone was able to solo baron at 20

RenownedWheat42Apr 21, 20171 votes

How do you build? Runes, masteries, etc.

I got Aatrox but never use him cuz of how he's been lately but you clearly been rockin ass with him lately.

Sgt KarilApr 21, 20171 votes

Updated mainpost :)

I prefer jungle farm + dragon oriantated jungling, showing on lanes to push turrets when possible until I have bloodrazor, rage blade and spectrs cowl. Before that I don't prefer to go in for teamfights.

If the first dragon is good, I get quick level 3 and slay it at ~3:30. I might do could dragons too if the enemy jungle pick isn't threathening to me/top or mid lane during their first clear.

Then I kinda just clear my jungle and enemy jungle every time I see enough of their players and only pick up the "easy" ganks.

I solo herald at 16-19 minuts after completing rage blade and try to apply pressure on turrets.

If I completed bloodrazor, rage blade and spirit visage before ~24 minutes, and have 1-3 useful dragons I tell my team to stay visible and solo baron. Then I start forcing fights or either split pushing. At this point the enemy needs atleast 2 to stop my pushing and usually 3 to kill me, granted I have managed to stay ahead.

This build and jungle style is very hard to play from behind when your lanes fail and the enemy jungler outperforms you. In those cases I would recommend to skip the rageblade and go for tankier items and try to group and abuse your 2 lifes in teamfights. However, if you are able to splitpush and your team is able to turtle, always go for it since Aatrox with medicore items compared to the rest of the players in the match is not very good in teamfights.

GeshultzApr 22, 20171 votes

I feel like Aatrox e max into w max gives you the most well rounded skill path. As maxing his e gives most damage per skill point in his kit and it increases the strength of the slow and lowers the cooldown as well. With going for something like Bork Ninja tabis Bloodrazer or cinderhulk depending on team comp... Then Black clever with tank items. I feel like Blade of the ruin king is a core item for Aatrox because it gives him everything he wants. Extra CC to gap close, attack speed to get more w procs off, % damage to shred tanks and AD to do more burst in his kit and lifesteal to last longer in teamfights before using passive.

Sgt KarilApr 22, 20171 votes

That would be ideal for most top lane matches, but in jungle I prefer the rage blade since after 6 hits your W procs every 2 attacks instead of 3. Bloodrazor as jungle item you proc the % hp 3 times in 2 hits. Ofcourse you would do the same with BOTRK but adding botrk into bloodrazor + rageblade and full atk speed runes makes your atk speed to go ~2.2 when in guinsoos rage and hellbent, and this means you wasted money for attack speed since activating ult caps the attack speed to 2.5 from about 1.8 AS.

Also 3 full damage items makes him way too squishy for my style. But I'm not judging, go and try it out a few matches, you could even get cinderhulk for jungle item and then go Rage Blade + BOTRK. Personally I never tried that because I like to get attack speed as early as possible, but that could definetelly work when facing hard hitting counterjungler or when you just need some fat below your skin in the early game.