Aatrox Suggestion

Manwad··1 votes·697 views

So when I played Aatrox during this free week, I found that while he gets up to 200+ damage every auto attack and can burst down a squishy with a face roll combo ( Q his in the mid, E all over them, hit R and right click until damage proc on W), I found that after that burst, the enemy just sort of dashes away leaving you just sitting there with a raging blade angrily trying to right click the other target only to get systematically nuked by the squishy who got away.

And having only his Dark Flight to get in someone's face, his Blades of Torment not being spammable enough for a puedo perma-slow and just the fact that he's melee and is based arought right clicking people to death, he seems to lack the Xin Zhao or Master Yi level of stickiness these champs have that makes carries poop themselves when they go ham.

So, since he was described by the team who made him as a graceful fighter, what if he didn't need to stop to auto attack when he uses Massacre? Like, it seems that the reason he stops when not using it is because he apparently swings it with all his might for every cut/cleave/stab and needs to brace himself on the ground, so when he does go full flying demon on you with an even bigger sword, it seems that he should have no problem just hacking people to bits while flying around. Thoughts?

TL;DR: Aatrox isn't sticky enough to be a threat to carries past his initial burst, so I thought it'd make sense thematically if he could move while auto attacking during his ultimate, Massacre.

4 Comments

Abominate1 votes

If you manage to "burst down a squishy with a face roll combo" than they are doing something wrong.

Also Aatrox needs more than a slight buff, he needs a slight rework because he came out as something Riot doesn't want to have to try and balance out.

Manwad1 votes

Granted it was mid game, where his ult's damage, and right clicks, means something, and it was against a Cait with zero defensive items.

And what could be reworked about him? Should he be able to pull a Voluc with his ult and drain life from everything around him with no limit, minion or champ, and gain an immense amount of life steal during said duration? Or maybe his Blades of Torment can apply a mark on targets hit for bonus damage and/or HP when consumed via whacking them with his blade?

Abominate1 votes

Granted it was mid game, where his ult's damage, and right clicks, means something, and it was against a Cait with zero defensive items.

And what could be reworked about him? Should he be able to pull a Voluc with his ult and drain life from everything around him with no limit, minion or champ, and gain an immense amount of life steal during said duration? Or maybe his Blades of Torment can apply a mark on targets hit for bonus damage and/or HP when consumed via whacking them with his blade?

Sustain is one of his issues ATM

With the amount that he has in lane tacked on with attack speed and a revive passive make it that if he does to much damage he becomes difficult to balance. So making it really hard for him to actually do damage is his weak spot. He needs to build a few damage items to do anything and a few tank items to tank anything in a real fight. He needs to much to get going because he's limited to being useless in one way or another.

He doesn't need to drain more life and gain life steal because that just means they need to rip more damage off of him or make it harder for him to deal it. And regardless of how you really do Aatrox doesn't have a point in the game where he is better than anybody. You want an early champ? Sustain? Mid game? Late game? Whatever you want to do with him you have better, more reliable choices.

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