Please reconsider the Aatrox E change.

While I can't speak to how much raw power his E healing off minion waves was providing him, I can tell you that his E being able to bank charges is utterly and completely vital to this champion functioning correctly.

His Q is powerful, sure, but it is not such a game-bustingly powerful ability that it should be as unreliable as Riot wants it to be - it's already mega-telegraphed and isn't even disruptive if you don't land the sweet spot.

But to the point, even at five ranks of Q and five of E with 40% CDR, it's extremely unlikely Aatrox will ever really reliably combo anyone who is paying attention.

Testing it, at 5 ranks and 40% CDR, E's cooldown is roughly 3 seconds - if you use E on any cast of Q, you absolutely must hold the next cast until it it almost out of time to re-cast if you wish to E again, and that requires FULL CDR, which means you have a pretty significant amount of gold (or a bunch of component items and the cosmic insight mastery).

I don't know if the motivation/cause for this change is his being played in mid lane and fishing for an early stomp on a mage, but this is essentially going to remove him from play - he absolutely will not be able to reach a back line or hit anything but a fully CC'd opponent if he can't bank up two charges of umbral dash for use in rapid succession, or something close to it - meaning his damage plummets. This is on top of his healing from non-champions going away and not even being increased against champions to compensate.

Further, his new kit really doesn't incentivize building tank items, just AD items with HP like cleaver and sterak's, and lately, he typically throws in Youmuu's, and frankly can't afford to build CDR boots to ditch the Youmuu's because the MS active is important as well as the CDR, and often boots are one of his only defense items in these games where you don't typically hit past 4 full items.

I think if you absolutely have to remove the healing, so be it, though I don't think it's going to do much more than let him be easily shoved out of lane, even with the compensatory HP regen + growth buff.

That said, I strongly urge reconsideration of the dash change; even if you move to a mid-range CD, but he can use it twice if it's within so many seconds (at LEAST one second over the Q recast timer) - I don't think it's the same as a Riven E where just having a base low CD is helpful because she has her Q to get her in. He feels utterly abominable on the PBE in this state.

Thank you for your time.