Ideas for Aatrox for future rework ITT

TigerbIood·6/23/2016, 5:37:17 PM·1 votes·706 views

I love Aatrox's theme and have been playing him since release (this is a smurf) but he is a toxic champion by design.

His passive has been the excuse for his piss poor defensive stats.The fact you have to kill this life steal tank twice takes much of his power budget . Therefore let's aim for something to replace it with.A passive to match his theme.

He's is a warrior that thrives off blood right? Let's make his passive more along those lines.

Passive: Aatrox has no health regeneration and instead draw's from his bloodwell when out of combat.After killing a unit, Aatrox gains exceptional health regen .

Q - 16 sec cooldown at level 1?

Every 3rd auto attack on a unit reduces the cool down of his Q by 2 seconds.This change allows better telegraph of his pattern.

This ability costs a huge amount of health and for a champion with almost no CDR items available to him as a frontline initiator,it kills his lategame. This ability has a 12 second cool down at rank 5.That's insanely long!

New E (Triple activation) - Living Blade : Aatrox sweeps his blade in a 450 range arc applying on hit effects.

This gives him waveclear,a way to deal with ranged opponents,some CC once he gets a mallet and synergizes with his W.

R - A merge of his current E and current ultimate.Upon activation he launches his current E out which slows all targets substantially.This ability will have a bigger arc and will be the front-load of his damage.The more enemies hit hits with the slow the more "frenzied" Aatrox becomes gaining attack speed for each champion hit.

I'm not a designer nor do I claim to be,but these are just some ideas which I feel would fit thematically into his kit and put more synergism in his kit with his W.

Aatrox does not lack damage or sustain,his issue is being kited and being feast or famine.This kit will allow him to have utility if behind when built tank but allowing him to more easily disrupt a fight and catch up through waveclear.His weaknesses to CC and range still remain but he is now a better tank/duelist without his passive tanking up all his power.

5 Comments

Asamas6/23/2016, 6:04:36 PM1 votes

Hmm. I aways thought that his passive is only for early becoue Aatrox is weak early. But now i realised that in late game this passive it's very op. I don't play Aatrox but i really like the concept for him. And in game there are 3 champs with passive that reborn them (Anivia, Zac, Aatrox) so it's really too much. For me your idea is good and it will make Aatrox unique. And the ultimate rework it's amazing. Good job with this.
[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

zlumpy6/23/2016, 10:14:11 PM1 votes

2 words. Duel wield