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New Aatrox will be nerfed

Garbage Bag··2 votes·1,238 views

Just played against the new, REALLY well thought out Aatrox and yikers.

I had read somewhere Aatrox was a bit too overturned and that's why Riot was changing him. Only they completely messed up and buffed a champ that was acknowledged as overtuned.

Riot thought the core of Aatroxs strength was from his ult, the fact you could dive for free (kinda). What they failed to realize is for 1. the movement from his ult is what made that possible. If you didn't get the movement his diving potential would be dogshit. Secondly they act as if his ult was just SO easy to proc, which considering his lifesteal, Deaths Dance, Ravenous Hunter, Spirit Visage, etc, you would usually heal quite a bit while ulting which made DYING more or less difficult (on top of the fact players deliberately kite you to end the ults duration).

Riot decided to 'nerf' his ult, or rather not his entire ult, but specifically the revive portion, and due to the 'EXTREME NERF' they are now allowed to buff the shit out of him, I guess? Although understand that you can still get the revive, if you kill someone (like during a turret dive LOLOLOL) on top of the fact you have increased healing during its duration AS WELL AS IT NOW EXTENDS ITS DURATION UPON KILLING SOMEONE! So essentially the nerf is that before you could ult, not kill anyone, tank, revive, and die or maybe squeeze in a kill. Now with his 'nerfed' ult you can dive, grab a kill (ult when you see someone low who you WILL catch up too), get the revive, extend the duration AND HAVE INCREASED HEALING EVEN AFTER THE REVIVE! Believe it or not THAT'S A NERF!

It's gets crazier when you see that because of this DEBILITATING nerf to his ult, the rest of his kit WAS BUFFED! His Q has a lower CD (the CD procs after the 3rd Q but the overall CD is MUCH lower than before) and the damage was increased (yay). His W got an increased slow (which means you now need a dash to escape it early in lane) and it's CD was nerfed (decent nerf to the CD early but his W has never been the issue anyway so LOOL). His E no longer gives AD for 1.5 seconds (HOW DEVASTATING!) and now heals with 'non-periodic dmg' (literally stays the same). And his ult is what I explained already.

So if you thought Aatrox was a lane bully before, HAHAHAHAHA GET READY KIDS!

Oh as well his passive, which was really OP because of mutilation (LOL) now heals him and has its CD reduced by 10 SECONDS! And can be reduced practically in the same way (hitting the Edge of Darkin Blade is EZ af).

So overall we got a champ that was changed due to being overtuned, and what we got is a champ who is now VASTLY more overtuned. I've said it before and Ill say it again, Riot has no idea how to balance champs and I 100% guarantee he will be receiving nerfs soon to fix what was supposed to be his fix.

13 Comments

Ðeath XIII2 votes

They changed him for proplay. The goal was to buff regular play.

Garbage Bag2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Ðeath XIII,realm=NA,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=1wEB7pXW,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2019-05-02T22:41:00.739+0000)

They changed him for proplay. The goal was to buff regular play.

Its more of how the changed him that bothers me, not the reason

Ðeath XIII1 votes

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Its more of how the changed him that bothers me, not the reason

I’m pretty sure you didn’t read all the changes tho. Mutilator is gone. He just heals more. Like his E change makes it so Wits End has extra healing.

Garbage Bag1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Ðeath XIII,realm=NA,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=1wEB7pXW,comment-id=000000000000,timestamp=2019-05-02T22:57:49.785+0000)

I’m pretty sure you didn’t read all the changes tho. Mutilator is gone. He just heals more. Like his E change makes it so Wits End has extra healing.

I know mutilator is gone, I joked about it. It wasn't very useful so they took it out and made the passive better overall. Also Aatrox doesn't build DPS so why would you be building Witts?

Ðeath XIII1 votes

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I know mutilator is gone, I joked about it. It wasn't very useful so they took it out and made the passive better overall. Also Aatrox doesn't build DPS so why would you be building Witts?

You auto quite a bit more this patch.

Idk who builds Wits tbh.

But Mutilator was a big deal, but mostly for pro play.

Garbage Bag1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Ðeath XIII,realm=NA,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=1wEB7pXW,comment-id=00000000000000000000,timestamp=2019-05-02T23:03:13.514+0000)

You auto quite a bit more this patch.

Idk who builds Wits tbh.

But Mutilator was a big deal, but mostly for pro play.

What do you mean you 'auto' more this patch?

Mutilator was alright assuming you're facing someone with healing and they use that healing within its duration. . otherwise it wasn't that impactful

Ðeath XIII1 votes

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What do you mean you 'auto' more this patch?

Mutilator was alright assuming you're facing someone with healing and they use that healing within its duration. . otherwise it wasn't that impactful

With passive being up more often you’ll find yourself autoing much more. Wits probably wouldn’t take precedence over Spirit Visage tho.

Didnt Mutilator also reduce shields? Quite a bit important in pro play with protecting the ADC.

bluefire mark 22 votes

Just revert him. He became popular again right before the rework.. then they nerfed him into oblivion AGAIN.

Garbage Bag1 votes

[{quoted}](name=bluefire mark 2,realm=NA,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=1wEB7pXW,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2019-05-02T23:00:17.466+0000)

Just revert him. He became popular again right before the rework.. then they nerfed him into oblivion AGAIN.

I couldn't tell you how mad I was that Aatrox was considered terrible for so long (I still loved him) then the moment he got strong they COMPLETELY changed him. . .no other rework had been so far from the original and it haunts me everyday

bluefire mark 21 votes

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I couldn't tell you how mad I was that Aatrox was considered terrible for so long (I still loved him) then the moment he got strong they COMPLETELY changed him. . .no other rework had been so far from the original and it haunts me everyday

SAME THOUGH..

bluefire mark 21 votes

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I couldn't tell you how mad I was that Aatrox was considered terrible for so long (I still loved him) then the moment he got strong they COMPLETELY changed him. . .no other rework had been so far from the original and it haunts me everyday

SAME THOUGH

DarkinPrime2 votes

You are correct. Its amateur hour at Riot and has been for a while. They literally have no idea what the fuck they are doing

Spicy Rice1 votes

I mean, yes and no. Yes, it's stronger, in the sense that if aatrox is doing things, he gets benefits.

No, in the sense that he can't allow easy turret dives post 6.

Honestly, I think he is fine.

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