Aatrox Reborn

Unlike most summoner, I'm a huge Aatrox fan. I was recently bummed by the new update because I felt like it weakened an already easily countered character. It made me sad because I see so much potential in his character. The being said, I've been trying to rebuild Aatrox for a while now and find what works well. It was recently when I noticed a new Aatrox build and playstyle may be achievable; a sort of hyper damage/life steal build. Now I know what you're thinking. "people already do a high damage life steal build right?" Right. And wrong. Or better yet, the knew updates make this a more competitive build than before. The end goal of this build is to simultaneously build Attack Speed, Critical Hit Chance, and Lifesteal. This won't be helpful in large group fights, but laning, tower pushing, and even 1v2 are totally doable. 1v3 if you're clever. Now the life steal isn't as important, as his passive will cover most of that, but building his crit speed are all itemized. I like to double up on phantom dancer as soon as I can. This gives you over a 2 attack speed and 60% critical rate. Pair this up with warlords bloodlust plus his passive and you got heavy hits almost every time that are healing you plus the passive. I like to build berserker boots and ravenous hydra for to steal from multiple enemies at once. Now like I said, so far in team fights this is shit, but it melts through towers, minions, drag and such like butter. If you play well and snowball early he becomes a crazy Lane bully. I even lagged out for the first few minutes of a match, followed this build, and when the spike ended I was able to push back the lane for the win. This is still hit and miss, and none of my matches since discovering this have gone long enough to test a full build with other items, but I guess I'll update as I go. Anyway, give this a shot and let me know what you think. Aatrox, the Crit-Healing Speed Demon!