So Riot, are you going to apologize to us after Aatrox win rate plummets?

Failog··5 votes·632 views

Because I will come on these boards and apologize to you if somehow I end up doing better with the new Aatrox.

As of now, the changes look like shit. And I think time will prove everyone who's complaining to be correct.

What really bothers me is that you guys had 2 years of data and input from Aatrox players about what his problems where, and you basically ignored all of it and forced some misguided vision down our throats.

I find it disconcerting that out of all the posts about his rework while it was in PBE, Riot didnt ONCE respond to any post analyzing or questioning the changes.

I cant prove anything, but I think Riot is a company made up of friend of friends, hiring people based on who they like and who they know when it comes to the non-technical positions. IE, you need to be a good programmer, artist etc for certain jobs, but for a design position, well, how do you quality someone for that? You don't, just hire who you like! And then all work together to cover for each other when dumbfuck decisions and changes are made.

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Ralanr6 votes

A champion's winrate drops after the first week of a rework?

STOP THE PRESSES! THIS TOTALLY NEVER HAPPENS?

Failog1 votes

PLUMMETS, not just drops

Ralanr1 votes

#THAT TOTALLY NEVER HAPPENS.

Ignoring the assassin update.

SadKill2 votes

I always thought that this mini-rework was a temporary solution untill they get to him for a bigger rework.

Failog2 votes

Yes that is their plan. But these changes do nothing. They may as well just left him as he is.

I suspect that these changes were purposely designed to gut him so no one would question a major rework that basically deletes Aatrox and makes a new champion called "Aatrox"

Ralanr1 votes

Actually they were probably done so people would stop saying how Riot ignores Aatrox.

Probably not, but it's just as unlikely as yours.

Neo Metalsonic2 votes

So nerf a champion into being picked in 0.01% of games instead of 0.05% of games is a temporary solution?

SadKill2 votes

I'm not saying their solution was any good, but it was their idea of a solution.

Fuh Queue1 votes

Who's "us"? The 2 people that play Aatrox?

Shuyin1781 votes

Something people don't get with these Aatrox changes is that they need to change the way they build and play him as well. Your old methods of "I'm going to build AD ATS Aatrox and 1-shot everything" is the WRONG BUILD. Phreak himself on his patchnotes video stated that building him more tanky now is a lot more beneficial with these changes than the old ATS build. Get use to the changes before you cry about them please.

Failog1 votes

First of all, AD AS Aatrox was never the right build. EVER. It was always an off tank. I have been building 2 offense items and the rest tank for the longest time.. So stop trying to lecture me. I have over 5000 ranked matches with Aatrox over several accounts. YOU don't know anything about Aatrox. You just a troll who likes to attack anyone who criticizes Riot. You are dismissed

Neo Metalsonic1 votes

The funny thing is that guy claims that building tanky is now more beneficial. And I'm like ''how?''. His passive grants 25% increased damage so you mean that you now build tanky to stay alive longer to get the damage increase? Even so, your Q and E are both on high cooldown and are limited crowd control options. Your W damage got nerfed by 50-25% (scaling) so you don't really get benefit there. You get benefit from the damage on autos. But you also get less attack speed, which makes the 25% increased damage and 20% attack speed not as great as the old attack speed that you had permanently up.

On top of this there is nothing Aatrox does that scales off HP% or he has HP% damaging abilities. So I don't really know how tankaatrox would work.

Ralanr1 votes

Just spitballing here: Titanic hydra and auto attacking when abilities are on cooldown because he's a heavy AA champion?

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