Anyone else think Aatrox' best skin is his base skin?

TheDevice·12/9/2019, 3:25:29 PM·11 votes·13,318 views

I mean... I have three of his other skins; bloodmoon, justicar, and mecha.

bloodmoon is aight. It's decent. Justicar is cool but victorious is redundant. Mecha is also okay. I was hopeful when the chromas came out but they don't help the skin that much. The colors are not all that sharp. Like they can't commit to any sort of dark tone presumably because the skin is based on transformers and its like kiddie colors.

I was hoping for a real badass skin.

Darius has several badass skins. In fact, all of Darius' skins remain in-line with the champions overall character and attitude. There's no Justicar Darius or Flower picking darius skin anywhere. For some reason, the people who make skins always seem to retain Darius' essence throughout all of his skins.

This isn't the same for Aatrox. The skin team apparently just couldn't wait to just veer off into holy paladin land for some reason. Already 2 skins that are basically interchangeable as some holy good guy. Now, im not saying they need to stick to his more edgy personality with all the skins, but c'mon...

Bloodmoon was the first actual badass skin that Aatrox has gotten... sorta. I mean it's good. I just think he could use some attention from whoever makes Darius skins is all im saying...

15 Comments

mrmeddyman12/9/2019, 10:16:44 PM6 votes

Most modern champs best skin is their base skin tbh. Leagues "style" has evolved, but they still make their skins the same way for the most part. Gaudy, over saturated by a single color, overwrought effects that can just be confusing in the middle of a team fight.

The base skins just tend to be better designed

Agent Corgi12/9/2019, 6:25:41 PM6 votes

I like Sea Hunter Aatrox's model as it is right now, but his Sword Design looks awful compared to Pre-Rework Aatrox's sword.

LightswornLance12/9/2019, 4:00:16 PM5 votes

Yeah other than his auto attack animation ( which might even just be from low AS ) his base is probably the best. No reason to change to a skin unless you get bored of default.

More badass Aatrox skins please.

Chembaron Yamada12/9/2019, 8:45:19 PM5 votes

Well, I feel te same for alot of modern champion designs.

Ekko Warwick Urgot Camille These are some champions I consider so incredibly well made in base, that I often find myself playing theim vanilla, even if I own skins for all of these champions. Not because the skins are bad, but because their base is so well done.

Aatrox could be the same for some people. He got modernised recently, thinking that his base skin is better than his other skins is not surprising me.

Tin Obliterates12/9/2019, 9:40:58 PM4 votes

Base Aatrox is definitely the best, both Blood Moon and its Prestige versions are pretty good imo and Victorious is ok. All his other skins became kind of underwhelming for me after the rework, especially Justicar. The abilities on that one just don't sound impactful to me.

ModRowanstar12/16/2019, 10:31:23 PM2 votes

Blood Moon Aatrox is the best. Awesome red coloring, cool design and weapon. Base skin and some of the others look too thin....blood moon looks stronger and more muscular and thus cooler.

Zombie Slayer12/9/2019, 11:23:58 PM2 votes

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This isn't the same for Aatrox. The skin team apparently just couldn't wait to just veer off into holy paladin land for some reason. Already 2 skins that are basically interchangeable as some holy good guy. Now, im not saying they need to stick to his more edgy personality with all the skins, but c'mon...

Aatrox before being a ascended gone insane and whatnot was just a demon alien and so the skin team thought "Hmmm what if we made some kind of angel varient?" So they did that. Not every skin is supposed to stick to the champions original lore they're put in a different universe where Aatrox is a robot, or a angel, or a blood demon.

In my honest opinion you cannot compare Darius to Aatrox in terms of skins. Darius is a human wearing armor with a axe and that can be changed several times to make him a wolf god or a viking etc etc and Aatrox is a demon with no clothes, a giant headpiece, and wings that pop out of his back when he ults so you cant make skins as easily IMO without finding issues which is why they go for ideas of a angel, a sea creature, blood god, and a statue???

Not saying that you cant give Aatrox bad ass designs its just that Riot isnt exactly giving that when they could easily make a bad ass skin with Dark Star or another skinline

ArezuAfar12/14/2019, 4:40:59 PM2 votes

I personally think these champs' base skins are their best skin: Akali AurelionSol Aatrox Irelia Kayle Morgana Zoe

XJ9999999999999912/10/2019, 1:45:31 AM1 votes

princess aatrox or darkstar.

and yeah i agree i love the regular. my gf got me a bunch of skins though so i gotta use them -shrug-.

Aatrox Airlines12/10/2019, 3:23:27 AM1 votes

Fun fact: Mecha is based on Neon Genesis Evangelion and the chromas are the colors of the Evangelions.

Garen is adopted12/10/2019, 9:31:26 AM1 votes

I think it's his prestige skin

Thefrostyviking12/9/2019, 5:27:21 PM1 votes

Is Blood Moon actually not really good? I do not have it myself but i think i have liked every single skin in that line so far aside from the Diana one.

d00mface12/9/2019, 11:23:56 PM1 votes

I know you mentioned wanting a badass skin and I'd love that too, buuuuut I'm still crossing my fingers for Pool Party Aatrox at some point.

Dashio Tessai12/15/2019, 6:39:02 PM1 votes

Justicar is literally Credo Angelo from DMC4. By far my favorite.