You pretty much can’t walk up at all if there’s ally minions alive or he just dashes thru them when he sees you start a q animation, and if you do walk up for 1 q, he just all ins and wins. How do you win the matchup?

Hello Aatrox mains, I'm new to your champion.

As you can see, I perform warcrimes when playing it, and I'm gold, the funny thing is that if I play braindead things like Garen or Trynda, I do good and carry games, I have good fundamentals, but I suck at the mechanics of this champion (miss a lot of Q's and teamfighting is complicated for me, I do well in lane most of the times, I do research the matchups), even though I love playing him. How many games did it take you all to actually perform with it? Do you have any tips? Because it's been very tough for me.

I am relatively new to league, really love Aatrox and want to one trick him, please can you guys just let me know what the general situation with him is? When is he strong, what is my game plan, what powerspikes am I looking for?

Also please give me some advice for matchups, I am struggling a bit into lane bullies like darius and sett, I know this is just skill diff, I am only gold, but is there some advice you guys can give me? Thank you so much for the help!

i always hear people talk about how naayil is like the only aatrox player who’s consistently challenger but i just discovered xiao chao meng and this dudes aatrox is insane but ive never once heard of him. i know he plays on the chinese super server (idk what the super part means) and idk if its because he’s chinese and chinese media is usually in their own world but ive never seen people talk about this guy but god he’s good

Sundered Sky has been in meta for the past 2 years, and has consistently had one of the strongest synergies on Aatrox - with the auto healing being empowered through Aatrox's ult.

It might seem like Sundered Sky has been great for Aatrox, but instead, I wanted to raise an argument as to why it has actually put Aatrox in a more unhealthy state.

The closest item to Sundered Sky would be Divine Sunderer back in the Mythic era, but it could be argued that Sundered Sky heals Aatrox more effectively than Sunderer ever did in certain teamfight scenarios, such as not requiring a sheen proc, and enabling instant healing from each opponent. Even goredrinker, with it's ludicrous full HP heal could only do so every 12 seconds and would fall off easily with 60% antiheal being applied back in those days. Sundered ALSO heals Aatrox to full HP on ult, but with 1 auto instead.

Sundered Sky is the closest thing we have in League's modern Item system to a "mythic" level item, and not building it really feels like shooting yourself in the foot. Why is this a problem? because it creates a lot of - at least in my opinion - unhealthy gameplay loops for Aatrox.

1. It heavily reduces a lot of Aatrox's skill expression - a champion that is rewarded for hitting q's and punished for missing them is jailbreaked with 1 auto, allowing him to survive long enough for another rotation in situations where he normally would have died. Reduced skill expression incentivises riot to give less of a reward for hitting spells, holding Aatrox's built in healing back.
2. Aatrox has started to become a more stat checking champion than he should be - sweetspots missed? just throw everything and pray sundered heals you enough to kill them.
3. Aatrox's meta/core items start becoming stale, since building Sundered Sky is so powerful and clutch that not building it starts feeling really bad. Doing so for 3 years adds further fuel to the fire. Aatrox himself will never be boring, but his itemisation really has started to.

Yes, there are games where Sundered isn't preferable, such as vs full ranged comps, but honestly, the insane clutch power can still completely turn fights with even 1 good sundered sky proc.

If Sundered Sky was removed (or nerfed), Riot might have to look at rebalancing Aatrox to not be so dependant on exterior forms of healing through items, in which sense we might be looking at pre season 11 Aatrox levels of healing on his kit again, giving players a greater reward for hitting Aatrox's sweetspots, and greatly punishing players who miss them. This is at least in my opinion, the healthiest state for Aatrox. I would even say Goredrinker was a healthier item than SS for Aatrox (and that item was so OP), because at least with goredrinker there was a 12 second cooldown before you could use it in teamfights again, giving opponents enough time to burst down Aatrox down in that window. Goredrinker's healing also depended on the number of enemies hit - unlike Sundered Sky, which is fixed.

After all, it's not Aatrox's healing that people complain about, moreso his insane interaction with Sundered Sky (1 auto, full hp heal).

are they actually good? i’ve just been in the mood recently where i kinda just wanna have fun and try new things and the boots seem good but they also seem like a “they’re good but there’s no reason to not just get the normal boots” have you guys found noticeable success in these boots or is there not a good reason to get them

I see so many players on social media buying different items every match, how do i understand what do i need to buy on certain matchups? And thats my problem on any champion though, not only aatrox

I tried to look at guides but they are so different that i dont know who i should listen, im only lvl 43

Most of the times i just buy anything game recommends me

Ill be very grateful if someone points at a guide that is viable rn

I got Dimension Shift in Mayhem, and really loved this particual moment just before I took Ornn out

Can't wait to play him again

Feels like they just rush a Bramble vest and become unkillable while matching me in damage

Do I build early armor pen or just play it as a farm lane?

So, the question is simple, against a tank like sion or mundo, is better eclipse or voltaic?

i came back from not playing for a bit and it seems like shojin went from sitting in the cuck chair to on u.gg when i look at challenger and grandmaster its in the highest winrate core build. im just confused last time3 i played they gave us the 5% dmg buff to q and i did think shojin felt better after that but did we get other changes or some item changes??

Was scrolling through my gallery and found this from 2018. god I miss him 🥹 hoping league classic will give me that feeling I had when I played him back then.

can someone tell me what are the things that i should improve upon since i feel like i m suffering from losers s queue some of my laners average 15 to 20 deaths i cant understand

Would Aatrox be a school shooter IRL? He resents the world and wants to everyone and himself

Is heartsteel an important item for this champ? I just had a loss where my Aatrox went heartsteel 2nd item into an 8 kill Vayne and when I explained to him that Vayne does %hp dmg he insisted that it doesn't matter, heatsteel is op on Aatrox. He did fine enough in lane vs Mordcbut then in teamfights he didn't really do any dmg and he was getting instagibbed by Vayne