Aatrox, some thoughts and feelings from someone who thinks that champion is dope.
Aatrox is a boss champion. He looks dope, has awesome looking moves, drain tanking is a cool and exciting and risky way to fight and he's just plain cool.
But I'm sad at how irrelevant and weak he really is :(
When Aatrox was coming out I was ecstatic, my friend called me and told me he came out and I yelled, bolted to the computer bought him, and jumped in, he was awesome! Then he got nerfed some for being too strong.
I know they can't buff him back now as that would just make his snowball harder and give him the same problems as before, and with the diving fighter rework getting pushed aside for assassins his chances at getting a rework are even farther away now with champions with more serious problems like Warwick and Yorick having priority.
But after the recent Illaoi changes, I have hope for him yet if Riot would hear this plea!
Lots of people like the champion but people just don't like playing him despite them saying he is fun to play mechanically, it's just no fun to be a weak champion who relies on snowball just to be relevant. Recently with Redmercy's video talking about Kassadin being a forgotten champion (which I don't really think is true) the comments section was littered with talk of who the most forgotten champions are, and much like how forgotten he is in his lore Aatrox was one of the names to pop up alongside Morde and Yorick (one of whom is next to get a full scale rework).
Anyway back to the Illaoi changes- If you guys could do the same scale of changes to Aatrox that would be fantastic, there are hundreds of fan suggestions of changes that could be made to him to help him out, (many of which are mine heh) that you could look to for some inspiration.
He is aesthetically an incredibly cool champion, one whom with a little love could become relevant again! So please, even if you have no plans to make some small changes, at least tell me so I can put my hope to rest.
Sincerely, Someone who likes Aatrox <3