There has been a champion that's been weak 2 seasons straight. (Maybe longer)
Okay, I really hope that just.. someone from Riot sees this. Just anyone. Literally anyone. Aatrox is a terrible champion.
I'm sorry Aatrox mains, I understand that you might have gone 14/0 in the last three games you played. But... this champion's kit literally makes 0 sense.
So let's look at him. Aatrox is a Fighter/Tank champion that wants to dive in the enemy team, hitting as many as he can with his ultimate, gaining a TON of attack speed, then just smacking on the champions, healing for every 3rd hit or dealing a bunch of damage every third hit.
But...there's a problem with how he works...
I'm just going to post various posts from different websites:
https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2wbdac/aatrox_released_a_year_and_eight_months_ago_has/ <--- really nicely detailed post
http://www.lolnexus.com/forums/league-of-legends/general-discussions/62294-opinions-on-aatrox?page=4
http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/Lmr8EMUT-why-is-aatrox-considered-bad <--- The comments give great explanations
Riot Meddler has made this post about Aatrox: "Long term we'd still like to do some significant work to Aatrox, take advantage of his theme more and make him a champion with more distinct gameplay. That's not currently a scheduled project though, there are other champs we feel need the work more.
We don't want to just leave him as is for an indeterminate period of time however. In the short term as a result we're going to be buffing his passive so its cooldown reduces by level. At present it has a flat 225s CD, we're going to reduce that to 225/200/175/150 at levels 1/6/11/16 in the next patch (5.11), in particular so that Aatrox generally has access to his passive in late game team fights."
All these posts were written ether 1 or 2 years ago. Right now? Aatrox is still very weak.
As he is now, he NEEDS to snowball in order to be relevant and the way that his stats are, the odds are against you.
As a jungler, you're still very squishy and you have absolutely no way to fight the enemy jungler early game if they decide to try and eat you for dinner right after their red buff. So if you're fighting against a Kindred, Lee Sin or any other aggressive jungler, you'll get bullied out of your jungle super hard, they just have a much better kit than you do and are able to just out-duel you level 1-2.
Aatrox needs to be just genuinely better than the other player and flat out outplay them with pure skill in order to come ahead. It feels like you have to output a lot more effort for something with less payout.
I'm not sure if Aatrox needs a minor buff, a major buff or a full on rework, but right now? Something needs to change on him.
Does anyone have ideas on changes?
