Aatrox thread to fix him #12093487
(Highly upvoted comment I made, reposting for posterity and visibility.)
Not smart people will claim he's in a good spot since he see's "pro play" while not looking at the actual in game footage and individual performance of Aatrox in those games to see that he doesn't hit hardly anyone and just presses R and flails around while missing all of his Q's and his W chain fails to burn even one Flash as whomever he chained simply walks out of it. It's so hilarious listening to people call him "in a good spot rn".
His itemization is also abysmal and easily countered. His animations are slower and more telegraphed than Illaoi's, and his auto attacks are so slow he has massive pauses when trying to last hit that you always eat harass and can't react.
Last I checked his base health was lower than Ashe's too. So that's pretty awful given he's supposed to be this "Early Game All-In Juggernaut" that falls off hard late, as he never starts strong in the first place.
His core item is 
, which we can safely say that he hardly benefits from given that he can't reliably apply the stacks since he can't stick to anyone he commits to nor hit them. The health stats do little to mitigate his terrible bases.
gives him some basic edge, but at the cost of any defense he so sorely needed. With the nerfs to his lifesteal he can't make use of this and the move speed buff will simply not make up for his slow, self rooting Q, and easily walked out of W or single charge E dash.
His R is simply a means to prolong the inevitable as you more often than not end up bursted down due to your low defenses and the fact that you didn't kill or disrupt anyone running up on your team. So you stand there limping away while they clean up your team and then turn on you.
He's frankly, a mess.
His previous winrate of 47% has only continued to drop, nearing 46% now in his main role of Top Lane. Jungle is down to 41% from 43%.
I'm not sure how much more proof people need to see before something is done. He was reworked, gutted, and put right back into obscurity and non play.
