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Hello im solarus17 i was diamond 4 and the 3rd best aatrox in na in season 5 and i have over 1 MILLION MASTERY points on aatrox The new aatrox is Terrible i have waited 2 LONG YEARS for aatrox changes and im extremely disappointed and am considering quiting league if it is not fixed

In my opinion hes WEAKER than he was before and i didnt think that was possible let me start with the pros

the percent health cost were removed which is great so you can actually build hp better scaling overall on most abilities with ad especially the e

now with the cons MY MAIN PROBLEM IS THE PASSIVE

ITS HORRIBLE

to stack it is very hard because it decays so quickly when out of combat and gives no benefits unless your at 100%. aatrox jungle is completely useless. It gives you a weaker early laning phase which was one of aatrox strengths and leaves you vulnerable to being zoned out. The small buffs that it provides you when proced are not big enough for the difficulty that it takes to charge it up, and it quickly leaves when out of combat WITH CHAMPION. Furthermore when you have it stacked you are forced to not utilize abilities to push or wave clear because you will proc passive and mainly aatrox kit revolves around the revive and w healing which is what you mostly use since it used to triple heal. NOW when you are at 4 stacks and very low it forces you to choose between w healing (WHICH DOESN'T GIVE AND ANYTHING TO BLOOD-WELL) but you need to recover hp, or w damage to proc 5th stack and get revive, so what happens is you end up dying AND REVIVING THEN TO DIE OR PROCING HEAL TO JUST DIE AND NOT PROC REVIVE.

the e not being magic damage is also a big nerf considering that overall dmg output is less (when enemy builds armor) but is compensated by the fact that it scales of ad ( which is great)

The w overall is also a big nerf early especially dmg portion ( but compensated by it not costing hp)

the ad ratios were increased but offset by the fact that the hp cost were removed so now you struggle choosing a build path (not that the actual buffs to ad ratio and removal of hp cost were bad)

In conclusion the rework is NOT SOLID AT ALL and im overall happy with most of the skill changes what really needs to be buffed is the passive, or else aatrox will go from being BAD to being slightly worse