Aatrox's secondary bar color was changed to help with clarity, except it didn't.

hudzell·5/24/2017, 3:34:40 PM·91 votes·3,139 views

http://i.imgur.com/JYiGVid.png Here is a comparison of the two, top is with revive, bottom is without.

I can't be the only one that thinks this isn't clear at all. "But the GA effect!!" In big teamfights it's extremely hard to know for sure if you have it or not, unless you look at your actual passive cooldown on the icon. Being an Aatrox one-trick for a couple years, looking at the bar has been hardwired into my brain when I'm looking to see if I have revive or not, and I get confused when I die with a red bar sometimes because I thought I had passive. This also fucks with my aggression in some teamfights, because I would look at the red bar, not being able to tell if I have it up or not, and my brain just defaulting to "Yes" because "Red bar = Revive, White bar = No Revive" has been hardcoded into my brain.

Which is why I suggest we change the color of the bar during Hellbent with no revive to Yellow, similar to this http://i.imgur.com/H0HZ1BA.png

Edit: Hell, I'd be fine with just this http://i.imgur.com/qm8hjkU.png

27 Comments

Luminier5/24/2017, 10:56:34 PM6 votes

I literally thought that it was bugged. Apparently there's a slight difference. Please fix!

Falmoris5/24/2017, 3:38:30 PM6 votes

Execute. Aatrox

R0XTAR5/24/2017, 11:58:37 PM4 votes

Someone needs a Blood Moon skin..... just throwing that out there. He literally has a Blood Well.. [slayer-jinx-wink]

Darkdemon6535/24/2017, 4:02:53 PM4 votes

He also gets the white swirls that GA gives.

But yes, it should be clearer to both him and his opponents.

OurLestrade5/24/2017, 4:02:49 PM3 votes

It constantly throws me off, that's for sure

PearPearadox5/25/2017, 12:05:51 AM3 votes

RIP color blind aatrox players ):

AwesomeGuyDj5/24/2017, 9:09:30 PM2 votes

The top 2 look the exact same.

LichKing2345/25/2017, 7:30:28 AM1 votes

as an aatrox main also i look at both the icon and the bar idk why i looked at the icon but i think i hard wired it into my brain to look at the icon

50Shades0fTrynda5/25/2017, 3:41:12 PM1 votes

last year or two i have an impression that Rioters dont really know what they are doing ... but they are definitely doing it , thats for sure ...while ,for example , when i started to play this game i had in mind that they have a strict rules and equations for balancing the whole game :D

Theorchero5/24/2017, 6:25:11 PM1 votes

Seriously, I have no idea what his bar means half the time because half the time he fucking ides with it red straight away

deadlychuck5/24/2017, 6:33:56 PM1 votes

I mean, i can tell the difference, but it's not easy.

Though i don't see how riot would've overlooked the colorblindness factor of the color change. You've got to have these kind of color indicators change base colors, not just hue.

Volibear Boss5/24/2017, 11:36:54 PM1 votes

He has the GA animation when revive it active, but yeah, a change of the colors would be nice.

Papa Slothy5/24/2017, 11:45:20 PM1 votes

your idea is much better

The Deckowner5/24/2017, 11:53:28 PM1 votes

There is a difference, but it's hardly possible to be told unless you stare at it. Rito need to fix this man!

jama6555/25/2017, 1:16:47 AM1 votes

Tthe bar should be gray... since you dont have the ga passive <<<< used to play aatrox

snibedi snab5/25/2017, 1:36:47 AM1 votes

Expecting Riot to make changes that actually work properly

snort Good luck with that, mate.