Bring back old aatrox? please?

Ark The Valiant·12/11/2019, 3:36:26 PM·3 votes·867 views

maybe its an outdated point but i feel like old aatrox, the aatrox right before his huge vgu that completely deleted old aatrox and turned him into basically riven 2.0 (with some differences obviously), was BETTER. he was unique as a champion, had his own play style and he actually worked. it seemed like after years of being absolutely ignored by riot and being considered a troll pick my players across the board they finally had gotten him right and made him into the champion he was supposed to be. I used to main him and it was so so fun playing him. now he just isnt that fun anymore. can we bring him back riot? i understand a lot of man hours and money went into creating what he is today but i think the players that actually cared about aatrox before his rework were left out of his redesign. bring back my favorite champion please.

2 Comments

Elrza12/11/2019, 4:18:46 PM1 votes

He is unique as is right now, I know the meme is “lol riven 2.0” but he doesn’t feel like riven when you play him, he feels unique. Meanwhile old aatrox was NOT unique. “I go in, and auto attack a lot and lifesteal” sounds like trynd to me, and felt the same to play, except trynd always did more. The only “unique” way to play him was ap, and you get the same feeling from playing ap jarvan or ap shyv, Heck even ap irelia feels the same as ap aatrox, so that gamestyle also wasn’t unique.

JanusRuE12/12/2019, 8:53:17 AM1 votes

Exil on YT posted a video about how Aatrox was the only champion that was really deleted almost a week ago. Mainly because his kit and feel wasn't preserved but discarded for a new champ with his name... more than all prior reworks.

I understand the feeling that the new Aatrox doesn't feel like the old as I enjoyed niche play styles like AP Cait, minion sup Eve, nuke Taric, pokemon trainer Yorick, and diplo Poppy (and mord got a possibly better version of her old ult). eh all and all Exil seems to explain it the best so if interested check out his vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a764zGHTSI