Aatrox: The Darkin Blade | Champion Trailer - League of Legends

I remember hearing someone hoping that he wouldn't become a shouty angry man. A moment's silence for that guy.

As much as I love those animations, I'm not sure if I like this new art direction. He lost that lean build and now has your average masculine dorito build, his voice has so much processing that I had to turn on subtitles, and he's seemingly lost that calm warrior poet vibe that made him so interesting to listen to :/

I will miss his old VO.

not sure how to feel about his voice too be honest..

Remember when people said they liked his elegant views on war? Me neither. Let’s make him edgy.

Me after seeing the new Aatrox:

https://imgur.com/a/bO04tue

I hate saying this, but as a lvl 7 Aatrox lover I'm disappointed. This doesn't look like him. It looks like a fat brutish CC bruiser. The new voice is awful. :(

Well, he does look more fun to play.

So "Rhaast" means "Obey And "Aatrox" means "Skillshot"

I wonder what "Varus" stands for.

Hmm. His in-game model looks quite plain - there's not as much detail or color variation as I expected, particularly on his upper body. It would have been nice if he had some extra detailing and greater contrasts in tone to break up the wall of red that comprises his torso, and some red light glowing from the joints in his legs to break up the monotony of grey.

His voice-acting is angrier than the last one, and thus more befitting of a daemon of war. However, the Russian accent is a little jarring. It's not a bad voice overall, but it's nowhere near as good as Rhaast's, which is wrathful without sounding cartoon-villainish.

Gameplay looks fun, but will need to know a little more before commenting further.

Is that sexy, or isn't that sexy?

No wings until he ults. Holding sword with 2 hands, swinging from his right side (not left). Mostly abilities attack not autos (although that would be boring for a trailer).

yikes

Just don't rework Aatrox... I love him the way he is. Why you gotta do this. I guess many people don't play Aatrox but this rework you guys did in my mind is a tough nerf for Aatrox. His Ultie would increase your range, attack speed, fill the blood well and now it will just revive you?! Anyways, if the community doesn't like the reworked Aatrox is there a chance he will return back to normal? Also, what happens to the already skins players migth have.

https://i.imgur.com/5gkIoqI.jpg

Why?

So he has a 3 swing cast of his blade on his Q , a form o AOE CC on his W , a Dash on his E , and his ult makes him bigger and deal over all more damage

Please let the wings be permament, he looks so uncomplete without them.

For the love of god please return the old model. This one looks so ugly. Why does someone who decides the outcomes of wars hold his sword like its too heavy for him. Also his wings are like the thing that made Aatrox Aatrox, i know he has them in his ult, but just have them there all the time and make him fly in his ult with bigger wings. He looks like an idiot without wings. Oh and his voice... what are you doing Riot

Beauty comes in all colors, as long as it's red.

I have to say the distinction between the teaser and the reality of what we're getting (Aatrox's abilities+voice) are kind of a letdown. I don't mind that his new abilities allow Aatrox to do more damage you'll get hugs and kisses all around from Aatrox players. What I'm getting at is Aatrox feels too different. You have an acoustic rage boy (New Aatrox) VS The guy who turns wars into art(Old Aatrox).

As a lvl7 Aatrox main I would prefer if you ACTUALY postponed any changes to Aatrox until you come up with something better than this garbage the "new" kit is essentially a modified Riven.

Just some suggestions:

• His chest and left arm need some darker shades and a bit more detail added to them (Like his current model), right now they look too plain and bright. Also, the red ends really abruptly halfway up his neck, making it look like he's wearing some sort of shirt rather than it being his bare skin (This can be best seen at 1:05).Try to make it fade out into gray as it goes up to his face to make it look more natural (Though this is mostly just a nitpick; his neck will barely be visible in-game and thus this isn't much of an issue, but I'm pointing it out regardless).

• Make his lips darker than the rest of his face like they are in his splash art (Again, a really small detail that isn't much of an issue but I still thought I should point it out just for consistency's sake).

• I don't know if it's just like this for the trailer, but don't put so many filters on his voice as it just makes his words sound garbled and hard to make out. As someone already said, I shouldn't have to turn on the subtitles just to understand what he's saying.

• Making his voice a little deeper wouldn't be bad either, since right now he sounds too much like Viktor to me and too little like the almighty leader of the Darkin that he's supposed to be.

Other than those few things, though, the rework's looking great so far. Can't wait to play him when he comes out!

cut the courage from them. Rage, against the dying, of the light. even those who have nothing, can give their lives. :^)

I honestly can not understand a single word he is saying wtf is wrong with his voice.

Needs an animation where he totally misses that sword catch.

His voice is much too pitchy. He sounds like a cartoon Megatron. Also his annunciation is very poor now, or from what I've seen. Maybe that's a side-effect of too many processing effects. Gauntlet seems to be a focus and has some of the least detail, stark contrast between yasuo's pauldron in the same video. Awesome concept, but overall feels like it's not a complete product.

Every LoL Youtuber and their mom is going to be on top of this teaser and yall know it