For those of you missing the point of the Aatrox update

OyddAWqJ5r··10 votes·881 views

It wasn't to buff him. It was to fix gameplay issues. Those issues are mostly fixed, just numerically nerfed atm since he is still by nature a snowbally champion and they don't want him getting out of hand off the bat.

Don't call it trash just because of numbers nerfs, that has 0 to do with the mechanical changes. Like they said, he's in a much better state for buffs and nerfs and we will for sure see buffs from it.

Feel free to make justified complaints about the mechanics though, but Riot doesn't care about the numerical QQ's right now.

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Rockm Sockm7 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sleeper Cell,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=oG8E3mEZ,comment-id=,timestamp=2017-03-10T02:19:58.380+0000)

It wasn't to buff him. It was to fix gameplay issues. Those issues are mostly fixed, just numerically nerfed atm since he is still by nature a snowbally champion and they don't want him getting out of hand off the bat.

Don't call it trash just because of numbers nerfs, that has 0 to do with the mechanical changes. Like they said, he's in a much better state for buffs and nerfs and we will for sure see buffs from it.

Feel free to make justified complaints about the mechanics though, but Riot doesn't care about the numerical QQ's right now.

Those issues are no wear close to being fixed

They actually added even more.

The reason people are furious is that they waited over three years.

They waited over six months of riot saying they were working on various ideas.

This was originally supposed to be done in December, then it was pushed back over and over.

Now they said they ran out of time and were not done.

This is also a bandaid of fix before the diver update that was pushed back for a second tank round.

So now we are even worse off until over a year?

That's like telling your doctor for three years you have erectile dysfunction then one day he cuts your junk off.

One day they will have a bionic replacement so just wait.

53436278DEL16 votes

Tryndamere Riven Irelia "snowbally"

GULAG 4 U1 votes

Eh what you're saying here doesn't really respond to OP's actual point in anyway. You are just playing around the words he/she used.

OyddAWqJ5r1 votes

Never said snowbally was a bad thing. But overtuning a snowbally champ into a permaban is extremely bad and Riot has learned their lesson on it.

AirKingNeo4 votes

None of his gameplay issues were fixed.

Lane bully still shit early. Q cooldown still 5 seconds too high. Base stats still too low.

OyddAWqJ5r2 votes

Q CD numbers too high. Base numbers too low. Numbers this numbers that.

Feel free to make justified complaints about the mechanics though, but Riot doesn't care about the numerical QQ's right now.

AirKingNeo1 votes

You can't make a champion healither if they numbers are in the trash.

Ahegao Bunny2 votes

Like everyone who play aatrox is wild because they don't like the changes and everyone who doesn't play him is like "calm down riot got this". I liked Aatrox the way he was high risk high reward. Don't want to be some boring bulky fighter who can't tank nor deal damage and has less heal than before.

And Aatrox isn't a new hero. His spells do exactly the same just his passive is only for a tiny window active instead of always and his W got nerfed. But no HP costs on Q and E! THATS THE BUFF WE NEEDED!!!

Brascus1 votes

This is true, but it would have been nice to be OP for a time again

Bob the Toastr1 votes

Really? Then why change him at all if you're going to give him crap for numbers? Like I understand "A work in progress" but if you're going to take the time to rework his abilities then make sure his numbers aren't crap.

OyddAWqJ5r1 votes

Remember release Kalista? Case and point reason why numbers are better off starting low especially on something as snowbally as a carry. Noone knew at the time that FM + Runaan's would break the hell out of her.

Rockm Sockm1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sleeper Cell,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=oG8E3mEZ,comment-id=00040000,timestamp=2017-03-10T06:47:10.724+0000)

Remember release Kalista? Case and point reason why numbers are better off starting low especially on something as snowbally as a carry. Noone knew at the time that FM + Runaan's would break the hell out of her.

Three years of data. They knew the second they released him he had horrible base Stats, cds and damage.

Here's one for you. A four second window of power doesn't work on a melee.

Shove that one up your hypocritical ass.

OyddAWqJ5r1 votes

Why can't it? Afterall we have Master Yi who finishes fights in ~2 seconds

zlumpy1 votes

The passive change and charge stacking were a really bad idea.

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