Aatrox double nurf.

Atakka·7/20/2018, 4:41:42 PM·1 votes·872 views

When I first joined League of Legends, the first champion I had ever played was Aatrox. I liked his auto attack mixed with his life-steal contribute to gameplay. About a year of not playing LoL, I started playing again. I finally bought Aatrox and I still loved playing the champion, despite constant flaming that I always heard about him. Then they decided to rework him, and they made what I can only describe as a mockery. Granted his skin looked cool and his wings were awesome with his rework, but his life-steal and attack speed had completely been thrown out of the window in replace of 3 skill-shots. Don't get me wrong, the new Aatrox grows on me. But it just isn't Aatrox anymore: I just don't understand why anyone would do this to a good champion. So after playing the new Aatrox for a few months, getting used to his combo's and skill shots, what Riot do... They nurf him again. Now his is a squishy abomination. I know that he was pretty buff with this new rework, especially early game and that it was only logical to do so; People said he was a crap champion - rework him. People said he is too buff - nurf him. It's the best thing to do. But now it's like a dead champion, just waiting to become a trolls pick again. I know I'm pretty nooby compared to everyone else and that this post is probably a little stale, and maybe no one else really sees what I mean, but I'm gonna have to say it again even if everyone has heard it way too many times. Aatrox was a good champion. All riot had to do was make another Darkin if they wanted it so bad; I mean it's not too late, right? Anyway, if you had the time in your life to read this then cool, I guess. Hope this maybe has some sort of effect.

Peace, and thanks for reading, Aatrox

  • Atakka

2 Comments

ModThe Djinn7/20/2018, 6:12:02 PM2 votes

{quoted}I just don't understand why anyone would do this to a good champion.

Because old Aatrox, while he was kind of fun and was sometimes good, was one of the worst relics of early League bruiser design -- very little counterplay, very little skill expression, and a kit that largely came down to "if I'm ahead I win this fight and you can't do anything, and if I'm behind I'm completely powerless."

To give you an idea just how bad it was, relatively small changes like how Guinsoo's worked or whether or not BoRK was in-meta could take Aatrox from the bottom of the pile to the top of the pile, because his kit was so binary that his strength of "low counterplay target access" meant that if his items were good he was an unstoppable menace and if his items weren't good than he was barely worth considering.

Atakka7/21/2018, 8:43:18 PM1 votes

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I think I see what you mean.