Aatrox is unplayable! Once a legendary hero, now dead and remembered as a coward.

TL:DR I've played so many games with Aatrox only to realise that I keep losing. There aren't many mechanics and I was p3 so I think I know my way around the rift to know that It's not me that's messing up. I lose nearly every match up as Aatrox, and it hurts my soul. Please fix him riot!

I love Aatrox. Easily my favourite fighter in the game. On release, I played him nonstop, then I went back to ranked where I was an ADC/Supp main and I was glad to see him getting some play. But that quickly died out, and I've only seen him a couple times in the jungle after that. From what I remember, he's been nerfed once really hard, and riot has been slowly buffing him back, not it's barely noticeable. Not to say they aren't appreciated, it's that it's not enough.

I was thinking with the Juggernaut rework that my favourite fighter might receive some love, but I was mistaken, he wasn't even touched. It hurts my soul to see my favourite fighter be forgotten. It's so bad that I haven't seen an Aatrox for the last 2 seasons! I've been playing since season 2 and I'm a casual player but I made it p3 in ranked so I think I know my way around a bit. I can probably say that I'm mechanically skilled enough to understand that Aatrox right now, no matter your skill level or build path is simply under the average requirement for a viable champion. He can do every sub par and absolutely nothing well. Every champion excels at some aspect in the game while being moderate at other and horrendous at the rest, but Aatrox doesn't excel at anything!

His play rate is abysmal! The rotation for this week included Aatrox and I've only seen one other Aatrox, and that was in an Ascension game. On summoners rift it's a rare sight to see him. He needs some riot love, really quickly, I don't want this champion to become like the old Vladimir, where he was hell to balance and constantly getting changed. I think Riot needs to put some thought and effort into fixing his issues. Some of them being his sustain being outdone by Darius or the fact that his base stats and basically missing, he's extremely squishy! His passive is nearly only effective in 1v1 situations because in team fights, more often than not, if you pop your passive, then you're in the middle of the enemy team. At that point, as soon as you become targetable again, you get wiped out, like the passive was useless. This isn't just a problem with Aatrox, but revive passives in general, but Aatrox has one so I decided to throw it in there. Now, as for his q, it's a solid ability, is E, another solid ability. W and R on the other hand are completely different animals. I feel as though Riots decisions on Aatrox either being a drain tank (A tank that damages himself to increase his damage output) or a sustain fighter is what determined his current situation. He's not good at either, but at release he was good at both. Since then his R has received a change where the number of enemies hit will increase his blood well passive amount, though I'm not exactly sure when that happened, regardless I can't really tell if it makes a difference or not. I feel as though his kit revolves around him being an auto attack fighter caster tank with no mana costs while still being mobile and a revive passive but that's just throwing too much onto one champion (Literally Yasuo without a revive passive, but that's for another time).

It hurts me to say that Riot really had to take a pick on what they wanted Aatrox to be instead of leaving it to the players, this is the one of the rare times that leaving a champion in the hands of the player base has failed because the champion did not have the tools to get the job done after the changes. Aatrox needs some love, he has a great design, but a kit that doesn't really work in the current meta or any meta after he was released for that matter.

This was a rant, I was a little upset at my recent match history and this came out. I didn't edit this, it's just what happens when I need to spew out my thoughts on the matter. Aatrox is one of my favourite champions and I hope riot takes good care of him.

ChromeBeast, out.