Aatrox Rework is Outstanding

Lately, in reworks we have seen a lot of characters lose role identity, Irelia lost her duelist AA status, and now Aatrox loses his AA hyper carry status. However, both of these reworks are outstanding. Much more balanced than their previous iterations.

I remember when Aatrox came out, during the time where Riot did a new champ release every 2 weeks and in most cases this lead to a very unbalanced, uncreative and cancerous kit. Aatrox was, unfortunately, one of those kits.

This new iteration of Aatrox is great though, as he has been redefined as a slow but powerful juggernaut who does great damage, great CC, and tons of healing at the cost of being easily kited.

This Aatrox fills the fantasy much more, a massive slow Darkin who can duke it out and take a hit, versus his previous iteration of all out dive AA, die and revive set up.

Compared to Irelia, Aatrox got to keep a lot of his core elements still, such as his revive, his healing, and his ultimate. So I'm not sure why people are so upset that he lost his AA hypercarry state.

The only problem with the Aatrox rework, is the same as Irelia's, and that is that they are introducing new hard to play high skill cap champs compared to their low skill pre-rework counterparts which crowds a lot of macro-players out of these champs. People who excel at macro play, but are less than optimal at micro player now have to find new champs as they can no longer succeed on these ones