Played aatrox for one game. heres one thought
Take it with grain of salt. here is what i think about aatrox
not just from this game. but played against aatrox top a lot of times. and I can say. his early game. is probably on of the best. because of his W heal. he can go for a trade. go even. hell even lose it. and heal up really quickly. and his early damage is decent.
now what i think is the worst thing with him. not that he can't drain tank. because even mundo can't under focus fire in which you will get focus fired on if your melee in a team fight. its the fact that his damage is very low except on his W procs. I was doing. no damage as aatrox. I would letally knock up auto a squishy TF. land my slow. he blue cards me. and I still can't kill him until he pulls a second gold card and he is like. at half hp. aatrox has to proc his W active. to do any damage. he does no damage. his abilities have good damage. but he isn't a caster. they all have long cooldowns. his ultimate seems useful only for finishing off running away enemies
TLDR: I don't feel like aatrox does consistent damage. or a good amount of damage at all compared to jax tryndamere yasuo or any melee auto attackers. they all have superior damage. even with his W. i still don't think its enough damage since its physical and crit isn't good on him its just too well mitigated by squishies since he doesn't build any penetration. he quite sucks. i think the best aatrox i've seen built ap. Jax has hybrid sustained damage. tryndamere crits. yi has true damage. xin zhao has high sustained damage on Q and has armor penetration. yasuo goes well with crit. aatrox has bonus physical damage every third auto. thats pathetic.
sure I went for 2 tank items on him but i do the same on yi jax and xin zhao can literally buy 3-4 tank items and do more damage than aatrox
what a long tldr.
tldr round 2: Aatrox does not do enough damage/sustained damage and too much of it mitigated by squishies. abilities cd too high (prob cant be lower because they aren't a simple aa reset).
