AAtrox went from being a drain tank, to being a drain tank they managed to remove his entire identity and still leave his self healing when thats the 1 thing they wanted to remove.
He will always be trash tier or op, its how vlad, olaf,aatrox, rhast and the likes are (rhast has his weakness of normal kayn downtime which is why he isnt gutted)
Riot just likes making them trash tier instead of op as they arent flashy.
The passive and his E passive are gonna be the main problem in his kit for a long time.
The R revive after kill never really did me any good, always felt like If i could kill a dude mid teamfight, the revive wasnt why i was strong, it was the fact i could ya know, kill a dude mid teamfight.
Turret dives typically with triumph especially never really resulted in me dying after the kill.
Several times id die tryna get my revive, as opposed to just walking away.
The timer on his R is to low for it to be reliable.
its really just a win more mechanic, so that in a near even matchup aatrox just default wins because hes aatrox.
If your massively ahead it really doesnt help if you managed to die you probably got caught out and have 4 people on your body waiting.
If your behind, you are tryna kill steal to revive, and if you do you probably are so weak they can ignore you till its gone/double kill you anyway.
If you are even, you run the 50/50 of just winning becuase * im aatrox*.
Taking the revive allows them to change a bit of his power.
Wonder if they will buff his E by giving 2 charges, increase his range on q, or w slow or something as compensation later when eh tanks in winrate in pro play and barely moves in yolo q.