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  • Despite his very debated and controversial rework, Aatrox has become one of the most well known champions in top lane. Today we're gonna discuss Why EVERYONE Plays Aatrox!
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  • @AnonymerNutzer-ci3rt
    @AnonymerNutzer-ci3rt Рік тому +518

    I have been maining Aatrox since his VGU. The thing that always draws me back to Aatrox, is his cool theme, his fun gameplay and the fact, that he fulfills his powerfantasy perfectly.

    • @irkcoyunda7660
      @irkcoyunda7660 Рік тому +6

      bro exactly

    • @kylefraser2841
      @kylefraser2841 Рік тому +11

      Thats how I feel about jhin. Everything about his design fits his theme perfectly.

    • @watersheep6590
      @watersheep6590 Рік тому +1

      The way I feel about Kayn as well.

    • @drfirenugz2641
      @drfirenugz2641 Рік тому +3

      He's also disturbingly overturned so I'm sure you win more with him

    • @alexcat6685
      @alexcat6685 Рік тому

      Well all I say he's missing is his character design, its the only thing competely disconnected from his lore, voicelines, and even gameplan.
      He's resembles the sterotype he originally was, a Demon muscle guy with cool blood powers thats it.
      Not the abused Ascended infect with something, that keeps the threat of Chaining to get him to consume, leading to him wanting to kill himself.
      Also his W feels absolutely useless, enemies have higher ways of just ingoring it completely, especially if they have movement abilities, the thing the remedies it is his dash which is his main way of being unpredictable.
      I feel it should work similar as CC that helps keep the targets in check, like speedy opponents.
      I had the idea of it being a simple Slash forward that an AOE closer to Aattrox until evutinally lading in a Triangle, dealing Physical damage, slowing and crippling all targets hit.

  • @chrs-wltrs
    @chrs-wltrs Рік тому +144

    Part of it is also that anti-healing was nerfed, so Champs like Warwick, Aatrox, and Mordekaiser have been thriving

    • @quickredf0x143
      @quickredf0x143 Рік тому +31

      Honestly, sometimes it feels like you're better off building an extra damage item and hoping to kill them before they can reach you.

    • @jvmango3057
      @jvmango3057 Рік тому

      hmm idk aatrox's healing was cut down as well since the durability patch and then got 2 nerfs on his passive and R healing i think his hydra and eclipse just synergizes really well with him

    • @foodiefriendsclub4493
      @foodiefriendsclub4493 Рік тому +6

      @@jvmango3057 all healing has been cut down. but Rengar and Aatrox's healing, however, are exception. After durability patch consider the enemy bought anti-heal item, Aatrox will always heal more than before durability patch. Or if enemy did not bought a single anti-heal item, Aatrox rank 3 E and passive (maybe a recent nerf from 100% to 80% will be lower after the durability patch) will always out heal pre-durability patch.
      another small factor is with durability patch, it means the champion has more tankyness in a fight. For Aatrox, the longer he can survive the fight with his built in tankyness, the more he can heals since he is not about killing the enemy faster in the shortest amount of time but to deal the largest amount of damage with his sustain throughout the fight (+ more HP to suck from enemy with passive due to durability patch, but this might be a little exagerated )
      So no, in my book its just a big buff to Aatrox during durability patch.

    • @Omnifarious42
      @Omnifarious42 Рік тому +2

      Mord doesn't even have that much healing when compared to Warwick and the war crime that is Aatrox.

  • @Venmerr
    @Venmerr Рік тому +380

    Its weird to see Aatrox become so popular. Been playing him for two years and now I see other people pick and ban him, which kinda sucks cuz I never had to worry about that before.

    • @isaaclopezruiz9597
      @isaaclopezruiz9597 Рік тому +45

      Well that happened when a couple of items turned a champion with a skillfull and interesting ability set to a statchecker that heals and gets a lot of damage by default.

    • @BlackJackHD13
      @BlackJackHD13 Рік тому +12

      Same, it happened to almost all my mains, them being Aatrox, Bard, Fiddlesticks, Jhin and ASol. Only aSol remains

    • @dawidlol1337
      @dawidlol1337 Рік тому +10

      Happens to op champs, at least you get to play more champs and actually improve at the game instead of your champ which helps in the long run

    • @uncannybook581
      @uncannybook581 Рік тому +5

      when I started, NO ONE PLAYED HIM, it was just after the rework and his pick rate was like 1%, so funny how its changed

    • @justinwebb2773
      @justinwebb2773 Рік тому +3

      @@isaaclopezruiz9597 hes far from a stat checker even with good items

  • @jeremyguzman7936
    @jeremyguzman7936 Рік тому +209

    Aatrox its the Ahri of top lane, blind pickable everygame, incredibly consistent, sustain, every matchup feels like skill matchup where the better player always win, both are insanely safe and both are at its strongest in the mid game

    • @diskoebalo
      @diskoebalo Рік тому +5

      i pick illaoi everytime and kill him 10 times in lane

    • @eriquano9474
      @eriquano9474 Рік тому +78

      @@diskoebalo illaoi players when someone dodges their e

    • @u9477
      @u9477 Рік тому +6

      @@diskoebalo illaoi lane is easy you just dodge illaoi e and lane is won

    • @DeathwingRetro
      @DeathwingRetro Рік тому

      @@diskoebalo its skill matchup anyway

    • @davailama1808
      @davailama1808 Рік тому

      Maybe in gold yes atrox can be a good blind pick
      Only good ones are tanks cause you can never be useless

  • @TheClanBlade
    @TheClanBlade Рік тому +427

    As an Aatrox main myself I will say that the problem this season, and this may sound a bit biased, is that the champ didn't becpme broken until his items did. Eclipse and Jak'Sho are the only mythics you'll see on him even though they're designed for Assasins and Tanks respectively. And Eclipse provides damage but lacks CDR and Jak'Sho provides tankiness but lacks damage. Goredrinker does both perfectly with tankiness, CDR, damage and some healing but the item has been nerfed so much with healing reduced as well as the removed of the missing HP into AD passive gone as well. And his win and pickrate didn't start going up until Gore was so nerfed that people began abusing other mythics on him, don't believe me; If you go to LoL graphs, statistically Goredrinker has the 2nd lowest winrate of any mythic only ahead of Everfrost.. If Riot wants Aatrox to stop becoming a menace they need to incentivize people picking a BRUISER mythic and not one not desinged for him.

    • @adamnagel7436
      @adamnagel7436 Рік тому +47

      He was broken way before the preseason.

    • @st2whocares988
      @st2whocares988 Рік тому +15

      yeah pretty much, but his E also need a nerf, like the healing he get from E is so strong,

    • @luizotavio44
      @luizotavio44 Рік тому +19

      yeah goredrinker is treated as the best possible item for aatrox that will ever exist but after being nerfed so hard people HAD to build something else for him

    • @aidanthomas250
      @aidanthomas250 Рік тому

      Bulsh8t

    • @sasatofe7707
      @sasatofe7707 Рік тому +2

      i don't forget the funny hydra item amping what aatrox can already do healing alot and everyone rushes this item and it has no negtives to rush for it similar to BTROK

  • @nicopelolais70
    @nicopelolais70 Рік тому +26

    Got 4 minutes left of the video, but I still haven't heard that everyone plays him because he's just really fucking cool.

    • @eryklipinski3742
      @eryklipinski3742 Рік тому +7

      100% of my reason to play him.
      Literally downloaded LoR just bc he was added to it

  • @lukasminkevicius8519
    @lukasminkevicius8519 Рік тому +82

    to all non-toplaners, aatrox became the monster he is after the durability patch since the bonus survivabilty meant he could build more damage (lethality) instead of resists or hp. durability patch made him a tanky killing machine. prior if you tried the builds that people do now you would need to play nigh-perfectly and if you fucked up, you were waiting for the next game

    • @muncher1753
      @muncher1753 Рік тому +11

      The durability update didn’t help him initially. It forced a meta where Aatrox didn’t have enough damage to heal with Gore DD Grudge (Gore is bad). Naayil started promoting the Eclipse BC grudge build. Riot further nerfed healing on Aatrox and gave him More HP per level. This HP per level coupled with better Sweetspot damage and New Eclipse Build made him Forgiving and Overpowered. Before Eclipse and HP buff he was Feast or Famine. Now he is Consistent and Lower Skill. His playstyle changed imo.
      The Jak’sho build only has the Raw AD from Ravenous as it’s legs. Kill Ravenous and the build is meme. Then if they Kill Eclipse, Aatrox falls into obscurity (although before worlds Chinese Players still went Gore). At worlds it was Eclipse DD.
      But yeahhh you are still correct. Durability update and the Extra HP Buff allowed him this full damage Build. It kind of forced it onto him.

    • @socomical607
      @socomical607 Рік тому

      @@muncher1753 Sounds about right.

    • @WintersEnvy
      @WintersEnvy Рік тому +1

      durability patch(and 12.11) also nerfed his biggest counters into oblivion, anti-heal lost about 20% effectivness

  • @tface8366
    @tface8366 Рік тому +61

    I get the same vibe I get with Mordekaiser with Aatrox especially after their reworks, they became these "Raid Bosses" that once they get fed early to mid game, just ff ain't no way you stopping those two from killing your team with just a Soraka or Sona at their side in a skirmish

    • @jadonfernandes716
      @jadonfernandes716 Рік тому +2

      Unless if your bot lane feeds . Which happens almost once in three games

    • @andreabrighenti761
      @andreabrighenti761 Рік тому

      Morde, like Nasus, doesn't really scale that well into late game, where most AA based champions begin destroying him. His strongest moment is actually Mid game.

    • @andreabrighenti761
      @andreabrighenti761 Рік тому

      Among the toplaners that destroy him late game:
      Volibear, Olaf, Aatrox, Nasus, Yone, Kayle, Fiora, Jax, Tryndamere, Vayne

    • @valeriociarla1817
      @valeriociarla1817 Рік тому +1

      @@jadonfernandes716 1 out of three games? My bot feeds like 9 out of 10 times

    • @jadonfernandes716
      @jadonfernandes716 Рік тому +1

      @@valeriociarla1817 I didn't want to offend the ADC players

  • @MarianaBello-fq3hx
    @MarianaBello-fq3hx Рік тому +135

    I play aatrox because he is probaly top 5 champs in terms of amount of voicelines. I love hearing my champions talking more than 2 lines.

  • @A.Weirdo.I.Guess000
    @A.Weirdo.I.Guess000 Рік тому +33

    Fun fact:Currently Aatrox is dominating all 3 riot games, (LOL, Wild Rift, and LOR)

    • @harrysliyoko8809
      @harrysliyoko8809 Рік тому +5

      Truly the WORLD ENDER .

    • @GenjiGencyandOverwatch
      @GenjiGencyandOverwatch Рік тому

      He's really domination Wild Rift as well? Well if that's true then I'm glad to hear that even thoe that means he will get nerfed probably in first patch this year in all 3 games

    • @A.Weirdo.I.Guess000
      @A.Weirdo.I.Guess000 Рік тому

      @@GenjiGencyandOverwatch Aatrox already got nerfed several times after his release in wild rift, and soon he qill get his nerf on LOR too

    • @BlakeandMarjie
      @BlakeandMarjie Рік тому +1

      Aatrox is banned every game in high elo on Wild Rift on par with Yone and if these two champs aren’t ban they are insta picked and almost always ez dubs because BROKEN , BROKEN AF FAM

  • @boreldur
    @boreldur Рік тому +25

    "Why everyone bans Aatrox"

  • @crashka5860
    @crashka5860 Рік тому +27

    The statement about “honourable” picks hit close to home for me as lately I’ve been facing a very large amount of ranged top laners who hurt themselves by losing cs to poke me. It’s not hard to win against but it’s not fun at all

    • @olafthemoose9413
      @olafthemoose9413 Рік тому +2

      D shield second wind bing chilling

    • @mignob
      @mignob Рік тому

      reddit

    • @Omnifarious42
      @Omnifarious42 Рік тому +1

      As if Aatrox can't freely harass... Especially since he gets the benefit of not drawing minion aggro...

    • @reolsimple7036
      @reolsimple7036 Рік тому

      @@Omnifarious42ranged top player spotted

  • @BriTanuki
    @BriTanuki Рік тому +2

    Really enjoyed the choice of music this episode, great work as per usual.

  • @MrKillerbee124
    @MrKillerbee124 Рік тому +92

    as an aatrox main, I feel both honored and targeted by this, Vars

  • @bellliii1878
    @bellliii1878 Рік тому +6

    i used to agree with the whole "GIGA CHAD DARIUS AND MORDE MAINS " and " weak ranged top losers " but honestly the more I've played I realised I would rather face teemo or akshan than face most bruisers. bruisers just feel kinda boring to face. at least when I'm against a ranged match up and I die or get a kill I feel it was a because of their or my own misplay, with bruisers I just feel like they stat check me most times with no counter play if I make the slightest mistake.
    idk tho I know this opinion is unpopular

  • @angpham941
    @angpham941 Рік тому +5

    Lets be real. Everyone plays him because he's broken for nearly a full year now

    • @angpham941
      @angpham941 Рік тому

      More precisely since the grievous wounds nerf

  • @cactusboi9597
    @cactusboi9597 Рік тому +5

    "No one has a bad opinion about aatrox" naah what fantasy land are you living in because aatrox gotta be one of the most hated life steal champs out there 💀

    • @diagonal3715
      @diagonal3715 Рік тому

      yone irelia yasuo cammille warwick vladimir and others have way much more healing lol

  • @araigomi_nxs
    @araigomi_nxs Рік тому +3

    legends of runeterra and wildrift releases definitely helped aatrox gain popularity too, aatrox being popular is a double edged sword, its a redemption arc for most aatrox players while also making him unplayable most of the time

  • @kenmei1604
    @kenmei1604 Рік тому +12

    Great episode about great champion. Can't find anything to hate about him. Satisfying gameplay, cool(even if a bit edgy) design etc. Also very fitting for a vid about "Raid boss" of the game to have BGM of litteral Raid Boss. Binah theme is just to good and fits Aatrox so much.

  • @emilburatovic409
    @emilburatovic409 Рік тому +5

    I'm a support player, mainly playing Pyke, Rakan and Renata. However when I saw Kingen play Aatrox throughout Worlds, I was like: "Yooooo, I want to play like that", and then I went top for the first time where I was greeted by a lovely Irelia who proceeded to sink my teeth in, but hey, you live you learn :D

  • @mariowiiluigi1919
    @mariowiiluigi1919 Рік тому +3

    Oh damn, 3 videos on 3 different channels?
    Sure this is the christmas season
    Thanks for the videos!

  • @tedestrada57
    @tedestrada57 Рік тому +8

    I've been playing the old Aatrox along with Zed and Thresh since their respective releases, and he is by far my lowest winrate among them yet the most satisfying in terms of power fantasy. His Skirmisher feast-famine being worse than Master Yi definitely cemented him as one of the least viable picks, but when Rageblade became his staple and he can be picked in Jungle and Top, I just couldn't lay down this Darkin sword.
    Now, he's entirely different but arguably for the better. His no-cost, hard-to-land ability combos and drain-tanking passive makes him a really fair champion, though not the most balanced because as a Juggernaut, he needs it or he's not going to function well. As of late I think I agree with Naayil now that he's better off building Divine Sunderer/Eclipse/Jak'Sho and Ravenous Hydra than Goredrinker+Sterak though.

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      @FiggitClips Рік тому

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  • @TheDjpwn3
    @TheDjpwn3 Рік тому +4

    Shoutout to the weird but loveable bromance between Aatrox mains and Morde mains

  • @jackofromsouth
    @jackofromsouth Рік тому +5

    Aatrox is really fun to play and highly rewarding once you master it, but the issue nowadays is that you don't need to space yourself, the healing and damage on Passive and non-sweetspot Q is absurd

  • @BigMuskachini
    @BigMuskachini Рік тому +10

    because hes safe, forgiving, can spam endlessly in lane because he has no mana, and currently he happens to also be broken. Not sure why they made infinite sustain champs that have no mana but no going back now

    • @gabrielpanagsagan9741
      @gabrielpanagsagan9741 Рік тому +1

      Aatrox is only good when he has gold

    • @adamramos4063
      @adamramos4063 Рік тому +1

      @@gabrielpanagsagan9741 That could be said for any carry champion. It doesn't make them balanced.
      I don't think Aatrox is the most broken top laner now though, but he's not too far off.

    • @grimwill7686
      @grimwill7686 Рік тому

      It may be manaless sustain but at least it requires interaction with an enemy champion, Aatrox doesn't heal off of minion waves unless he has an item providing omnivamp. Unless you count his passive, which let's be fair the healing off of minions it provides is terrible.

    • @diagonal3715
      @diagonal3715 Рік тому

      Aatrox cant spam cuz if he spam, then he get punished. Aatrox not forgiving cuz if u mis ur Q u are dead. Just get out from bronze lol

    • @senbonkzakura7991
      @senbonkzakura7991 Рік тому

      Aint no way aatrox is a forgiving champ , if you ever get slightly behind you can never win a 1v1 anymore

  • @fuzzwobble
    @fuzzwobble Рік тому +1

    7:27 Thank you Kindred, very cool

  • @PlanetSparkler
    @PlanetSparkler Рік тому +2

    I think it is also relevant to mention that he is a melee champion that doesnt get bullied by range tops as easily as other melees.
    His q1+e has incredible engage range and w requires a dash to escape out of.
    If the range top laner wastes their high early game cooldown dash abilities on dodging his Qs, they are setup for aatrox to full combo with the w pull.

  • @drrrivevibes
    @drrrivevibes Рік тому +2

    After playing Mordekaiser for a couple weeks straight, I think the whole counterpick shindig is part of why he is so strong. With his W sustain, enormous Q range (that allows him to poke under tower as a melee champ) and the insane utility in his build paths, he is another juggernaut that will almost never lose lane if you play smartly.

  • @TheChristmasWarrior
    @TheChristmasWarrior Рік тому +7

    The consistency of Aatrox can be applied to many other popular champs tbh, for example yone can play good neutral and most matchups in mid are winnable

    • @Dingdong2730
      @Dingdong2730 Рік тому

      Not really, Yone has some of the same issues of double scaling, with attack speed gaving him more haste(thereby more cc and durability), but its not the same point as Aatrox where every point of AD not only gets amplified in ult but also in healing, thereby indirect durability.
      Yone’s lane isn’t nearly as safe either, from my perspective its a very easy champ to kill and bully.

    • @user-om5ue4id7q
      @user-om5ue4id7q Рік тому +1

      @@Dingdong2730 I like that the aatrox counter now also have double scaling which is ksante, although ksante's scaling is much more overloaded than what aatrox had since ksante directly increases dmg with armor/mr and also the hp to omnivamp which is ridiculous

    • @Omnifarious42
      @Omnifarious42 Рік тому +1

      @@Dingdong2730 Kassante also loses out on those stats plus cuts his own life in half with his ult... Aatrox has none of those downsides...

  • @ahmad-rw6lv
    @ahmad-rw6lv Рік тому +9

    you forgot the nerfs to healing reduction when they moved from 40/60% to 25/40% meanwhile his E healing got 2% reduced healing i guess

    • @hagalathekido
      @hagalathekido Рік тому

      his ult got some diced off as well, certainly not the 33% anti heal got removed but 2% is an understatement

    • @ahmad-rw6lv
      @ahmad-rw6lv Рік тому

      @@hagalathekido his omnivamp from E was 30% then 26% then 24% (1/6 reduced)
      His R healing was 60% then 55% then 45%(1/4 reduced)
      This is regarding max rank on both of them as early levels didn't get changes that much
      And remember that healing reduction went from 60% to 40% which is 33% reduction at all stages not just the early ones

  • @TheClanBlade
    @TheClanBlade Рік тому +2

    Finally a Vars video on my champ

  • @willmun7741
    @willmun7741 Рік тому

    I play gangplank and aatrox, love to see my champs be in both the why no one plays and why everyone plays series

  • @johnnymac6242
    @johnnymac6242 Рік тому +5

    Aatrox rework was a big reason I quit, mostly because they deleted Aatrox and then Yorick and released 2 new champions instead of actually reqorking them. Its actually insane he is still Meta. I would have thought he would have been gutted

    • @gabrielpanagsagan9741
      @gabrielpanagsagan9741 Рік тому +1

      The rework is the only reason why I started Aatrox from the get go

    • @Martin-yh7vi
      @Martin-yh7vi Рік тому

      lmao let it go 🤣 or not but it's kinda funny how seemingly bitter you are after all these years.

    • @johnnymac6242
      @johnnymac6242 Рік тому +1

      @@Martin-yh7vi cause riot when through a huge period of "reworking" champions by deleting them, and theb shortly after that Rito went woke for the gay crowd and ruined the community. Now the only people who play LoL are trannies, manchildren, and losers

  • @galanothi
    @galanothi Рік тому +3

    You are the first content creator I saw talk about the weird pride we toplaners have when selecting their rosters.

  • @Mathghamhan
    @Mathghamhan Рік тому +9

    Can confirm he’s the champ I refuse to play. I liked the original. As Swain main from Season 1, it’s the other main rework/overhaul that should have been a separate champion.

    • @IronKurone
      @IronKurone Рік тому

      Yeah, I've been playing seen s3, old Aatrox is my favorite. I really don't know why I hate playing him after the rework so much lol. And tbh, I don't play any of the reworked champs after 2017, even tho I play all the broken ass newer champ.

  • @ghostblade1042
    @ghostblade1042 Рік тому +1

    He is what i called a fighting game character, skill floor is high but once u learn or master them there is so much potential. All you use is ur skills, no mana or bs resource.
    I love him because he feels like a fighting gam character that can be play alone plus he is a GIGACHAD demon. People who insult him are only cowards with fear in their heart.
    I only play league because of AATROX. the most fun hero for me.

  • @sugarybomber2081
    @sugarybomber2081 Рік тому +4

    Aatrox was a respectable top laner until he started build lethality and Jake Sao now I hate his guts until they nerf him so he can build normal bruiser items once again.

  • @dorianmcdonald1674
    @dorianmcdonald1674 Рік тому

    Was hoping you'd hit upon the way he embodies his theme a bit more but overall a good summary 👌

  • @genista3604
    @genista3604 Рік тому

    Bruh, u almost made me think I was already doing my dailies in blue archive with that bgm.

  • @belindachen9033
    @belindachen9033 15 днів тому

    Unrelated comment but DAMN WHAT IS THE MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND, IT'S V/ CATCHY >.<
    Also, love ur content Vars, keep it coming :DDDD

  • @johnnasullaev
    @johnnasullaev Рік тому +4

    yeah aatrox is so honourable, its so exciting trying to cs just to be knocked up, lose a quarter of my health because aatrox presses q1 + e+ q2. very wholesome and gigachad. love the doran shield perma full hp strat

  • @TerraGreatestLoveMachine
    @TerraGreatestLoveMachine Рік тому +7

    Aatrox before nerf:
    Passive heal+ apply grievous wound
    Q damage on minion
    Double E + increase AD after E
    R increase AD + heal+ revived
    Went from 400 AD full build to 1000 AD just from press R and E
    Now he just heal.

  • @franconunez925
    @franconunez925 Рік тому

    Probably my favourite champion to see, I might not play him myself because the only positioning I like to have in mind is how far is my fist from their face, I love the idea of an angel of death who heals by destroying the enemy team, but also not having a "braindead win condition" like reaching late or snowballing since even when fed, he needs to position well so his Q lands on their sweet pot.
    That's all I got to say, is just that I really like Aatrox.

  • @alanevans5353
    @alanevans5353 Рік тому

    12:44 "unconscious prejudice" I do believe that prejudice is VERY conscious.

  • @byronmann4525
    @byronmann4525 Рік тому +1

    I'm an Illaoi main and I hope everyone watches this video... then plays Aatrox

  • @orixthesourguy
    @orixthesourguy Рік тому +5

    Hey Vars, mind if you talk about
    ,, Multiple cast ultimates "... you know the ideea of having more than one ultimate/single use without having a reset mechanic.

    • @rawen160
      @rawen160 Рік тому

      Like Riven? It's the same case as recastable abilities, you need to balance it with drawbacks. Her ult is powerfull if you engage engage, but useless if you don't/get kited. That includes the wave, which deals high dmg only to low hp targets.

    • @orixthesourguy
      @orixthesourguy Рік тому

      @@rawen160 kindaa but i am talking more about champs with more than one ult:
      Wukong being able to knock up twice
      Kha'zix being able to use invisibility twice ( 3 times evolved)
      Tf: First cast: reveal the enemy
      Second: Teleports where he wants
      Corki( even though is just another simple ability,not an ult)
      If we compare those with Darius, who needs to kill the target to cast his ult again, they can use the second ult with no condition

  • @Dainurian
    @Dainurian Рік тому +1

    Imo he's just a perfect soloq champ; there aren't many games where you feel completely useless because you picked Aatrox. He can hold his own in lane after the first few levels against almost every champion, does well in skirmishes, and can also do well in teamfights with big AoE and a resetting ult. And in terms of pro play, being a relatively safe blind who doesn't get run over even against a "counter" matchup like Fiora gives him an express ticket to a high draft presence.
    Aatrox is just a rock-solid champ, although I do think that he can feel extremely broken or rather mediocre depending on the state of his items because there isn't anything fancy or "different" in his kit. He has AD scaling and wants to hit you with pure physical damage, no funny max HP (outside of his passive auto) or mixed/true damage shenanigans. To do anything else, including fighting through armor, he is completely dependent on items. Honestly the fact that paying for Jak'sho, an item with HP, MR, and armor but 0 AD and 0 armor pen, is not completely troll on Aatrox, whose abilities ONLY scale with AD and ONLY deal physical damage, is absurd and shows that something about the item or the champ (or both) needs to change. It makes sense for Aatrox to build some health and resistances to let him vamp longer, but his vamp is based on damage dealt and imo needs to be tuned so that you are more heavily pushed towards building offensive items.

  • @soul_bolt
    @soul_bolt Рік тому +1

    it would be funny to see the new darkin champ have old aatrox's kit a revive on R, except the R bonus AD and healing bonus.
    May I ask what the song under to the vid is?

  • @botila
    @botila Рік тому

    I pray for the day a "Why EVERYONE Plays: Sett" video! Lets go VARS!

  • @nojaodoggo2896
    @nojaodoggo2896 Рік тому +1

    Never ask to Aatrox main what happen after 9.4 patch

  • @mehmetsahsert3284
    @mehmetsahsert3284 Рік тому +1

    It's naayil man. It's absolutely naayil. I was playing aatrox even before the rework. Since the shop was updated I lost aatrox and then saw a few clips of him so came back

  • @TheSuperskadoosh
    @TheSuperskadoosh Рік тому

    I've played aatrox since before his vgu and i love his new form always have but i hate that they have done nothing to reintroduce his old identity back into him in some small way like a bloodwell passive or a revive or stance swapping.
    all 3 of these where part of his identity.
    most think his was the revive but if you actually played him you would know its the fact he could swap between high damage or high healing and it was that balance that made him fun when he was an auto attacker.
    obviously that kinda play style is hard to implement with his current kit but not impossible.
    honestly blood well (the mechanic of stacking something for a reward like fury and such) is easy to implement in 2 ways in his current kit it could even make him more fun and feel more fair by locking some of his power budget away in a passive thats not permanent.
    the most frustrating thing in his kit to deal with is that he doesn't REALY have any down time post level 5 as trying to bait his q can lead to you taking damage that you cant recover from.

  • @leaflotus6726
    @leaflotus6726 Рік тому +9

    As a rakan main, I've tried almost everything on rakan (besides mabye some support items, cause screw support) and I started watching Naayil and I was like, wait, but that's fun, strong, and I can play Aatrox similair to how I play rakan, so if I go top I go AA if mid I go rakan.

  • @arkreborn5961
    @arkreborn5961 Рік тому

    Totally forgot about this channel lol
    Vars 2 was my go to xD

  • @Heybayday
    @Heybayday Рік тому +2

    I think not talking about how a lot of hos power is stored in 1 ability. I think that makes him super frustrating to play as and against, when landing or not landing his Q is all of hos power. The rest of his abilities are great at helping him hit, but especially late game and with the insane amount of mobility now days it's feels awfull to play aatrox late game.

  • @Captain_Garchomp
    @Captain_Garchomp Рік тому

    I absolutely adore Aatrox. But at this point in time, I cannot wrap my head around him and I wish I could play him. He was the first champ I bought, and now he's in the middle of my mastery. One day I'll play him, but with the recent nerfs coming it'll be a while until I feel the urge to play him. For now I'll enjoy watching Naayil and others play him, and play him in Runeterra.

  • @Zarouph
    @Zarouph Рік тому +1

    I started playing league in S11, instantly was an Aatrox main, and it was tough to win, because ignite gutted any healing you from your e and ult, and DD was no where near as good. But then the durability update, anti heal reduction and gore nerf happened. And Aatrox became a monster, the champ I loved playing became a pick ban in draft games of all things. I really hope Riot nerfs eclipse/Jaksho on Aatrox so he can go back to building goredrinker and not being pick/ban.

  • @heavyadrelingblogs5630
    @heavyadrelingblogs5630 Рік тому +114

    I love how this champ is still not nerfed after 4 years of being meta and winning worlds against t1 but sion got nerfed after 2 weeks of inting silvers

    • @TheSuperskadoosh
      @TheSuperskadoosh Рік тому +18

      ok your wrong here he has been bad and nerfed mutiple times in the last few seasons its only this season after the durability update that he has been good/ovetuned and not seen a substantial nerf. honestly overpowerd atm with hydra jak'sho atm

    • @miguelMickSummer
      @miguelMickSummer Рік тому +10

      It's only been meta this season lmao

    • @New.lol1
      @New.lol1 Рік тому

      @@TheSuperskadoosh OMG i though i already answer to this guy but no, WE just like both gnar

    • @New.lol1
      @New.lol1 Рік тому +10

      Meta during 1 season= meta during 4 years
      Ok ok

    • @Venmerr
      @Venmerr Рік тому +1

      @@TheSuperskadooshA little misleading in that Aatrox has only been nerfed after the durability update the last time he was nerfed was in 9.12 ie. season 9. I disagree with Heavy though. while Aatrox has been good for the past 2 years, he was never top tier until the item rework because he finally had items that enhanced his playstyle (goredrinker) or fixed an issue he had (eclipse, black cleaver).

  • @federicosimkus7979
    @federicosimkus7979 Рік тому

    If you have a music playlist i'd love for you to share it, all of your videos contain bangers.

  • @max-potato-muncher
    @max-potato-muncher Рік тому +7

    What I dislike about the recent champions and changes to items is that it is super easy to lose a trade, run off and "do nothing" and then you're full hp again from ravenous or innate vamp, from just farming minions.

    • @baptistecochennec5956
      @baptistecochennec5956 Рік тому +1

      I mean when you have a full item you mostly have the damage to all in kill your opponent

  • @nathan172
    @nathan172 Рік тому +1

    11:56 insert Dr.Livesy walk music

  • @RazzEuw
    @RazzEuw Рік тому

    What I disslike is the distance expression, because even though the enemy laner is in his face he still befenefits(wins the trade) due to his q still doing (more than nessesary damage) damage and healing

  • @amberspectre9615
    @amberspectre9615 Рік тому +1

    damm... The music in the background is poppin... why is it not linked in the description? i wish to listen to it... you know... without the voiceover

  • @hunter235100
    @hunter235100 Рік тому +1

    1:53 LMAOOOO, the damn GP Is trying to Bm and gets smacked for it

  • @ConfettiBerg
    @ConfettiBerg Рік тому

    Wanna see kled next, that champion was a passion project.

  • @Anistotle
    @Anistotle 8 місяців тому

    I feels cool playing him. He's mechanic and animation is so mich fun to play.

  • @ultimatesonic47
    @ultimatesonic47 Рік тому

    now that you mentioned the honorable champions i would like a video about honorable and shameful champions

  • @davronhanley8255
    @davronhanley8255 Рік тому +1

    Aatrox VGU actually brought me back to the game in 2020 after a 4 year break. He’s always been fun to play but now he’s actually strong. That’s why people play him.

    • @FiggitClips
      @FiggitClips Рік тому

      Check out more insane clips on THIS channel ! Click for funny league moment and news thank you !

  • @shinjenn0719
    @shinjenn0719 Рік тому

    Hi, can you make a video about Warwick or Evelynn?
    (why everyone plays / Why no one plays)

  • @AtomBacon
    @AtomBacon Рік тому

    When it comes to principal I refuse to play full AP mage supports.
    I'll occasionally play more mage-esque supports like Lux or Ori, but ill still build with and emphasis on team utility over selfish damage.
    If I wanna play a mage I'll play mid. (Or mage a mage but instead of adc)
    I also refuse to play Pyke for similar reasons, and Seraphine as it feels traitorous to play her as a Sona main.

  • @draconian4045
    @draconian4045 Рік тому +3

    I play top, I hate going up against the insane top bullies like Irelia and Fiora, but despite me losing almost every single game against an Aatrox i can't hate him because of the amount of skill expression he had

    • @maths6956
      @maths6956 Рік тому +1

      Yeah he had

    • @mignob
      @mignob Рік тому

      Fiora and irelia have way more skill expression you just have to hit your skillshots on aatrox. nothing interesting there

    • @draconian4045
      @draconian4045 Рік тому

      @@mignob yes, how could I forget getting hit by point and click abilities and auto attacks being so incredibly skillful. Anyone who understands directions can be good at Fiora, hell I have like a 70% wr on her, Irelia is just the embodiment of *insert combo that insta kills*

    • @mignob
      @mignob Рік тому

      @@draconian4045 and aatrox q w q2 q3 isnt just an unskilled combo that insta kills?

    • @draconian4045
      @draconian4045 Рік тому

      @@mignob gotta hit sweet spots at the very least.

  • @jeremybilger5978
    @jeremybilger5978 Рік тому

    I started to play the game since Aatrow release, and he is my favourite champ then

  • @vibingzilla5097
    @vibingzilla5097 Рік тому +5

    Honestly, i play aatrox since his rework, even when his pick rate was really bad i still picked him, just because i like his character; it's fun to cause chaos while he screams in my ears every 20 seconds, you also get the feeling of being a raid boss and make vayne top players smash their keyboards.

  • @moistfungus3780
    @moistfungus3780 Рік тому

    Well this explains why I love aatrox as much as I do.
    Only champion I have any significant mastery in cuz I fuck around and switch so much. Aatrox always feels good to me though.

  • @Peter-zg3em
    @Peter-zg3em Рік тому

    such a terrific channel.

  • @controversial101
    @controversial101 Рік тому

    The same reason people play aatrox is the same reason I play jinx and cait they have ways protect themselves so in solo que where ur sup differs from match 2 match I can still play the game against yi, kat, zed, vi, and etc.

  • @apollyon4529
    @apollyon4529 Рік тому +2

    Must frustrating thing about him this season is watching him miss all his sweet spots and STILL chunk your hp, if your able to hit every single one then sure go raid boss 1v9 mode but wtf is the point of dodging if non sweet spots basically do the same damage

    • @benjaminwilson8807
      @benjaminwilson8807 Рік тому +1

      No lie. Vars at about the 8:25 mark talks about his variance. Turns out, the difference at level 4 or one component is heavily favorable trade to outright killing you. Champ would be fine if he was actually punished for not hitting sweetspots.

    • @alex2005z
      @alex2005z Рік тому

      He cant if you are playing some thats strong in 1v1.

  • @UmbralScythe
    @UmbralScythe 10 місяців тому +1

    I am not your enemy, i am THE enemy! Made me main him

  • @mysticstelios
    @mysticstelios Рік тому +1

    7:32 That kindred r xD

  • @snave5188
    @snave5188 Рік тому

    Cant wait to have that "As a **insert champ here** main myself" moment some day
    Kayn btw,
    If you were wondering

  • @unofficialskins624
    @unofficialskins624 Рік тому +2

    Me listening to Vars explain neutral game for the 3206th time:
    😑

  • @Claxis404
    @Claxis404 Рік тому +15

    I hadn’t really thought about it, but the idea of “champs I refuse to play on principle” actually makes so much sense. I REFUSE to play the 4 horsewomen of top (irelia, Camille, riven, fiora). I have maybe 1-2 games on each of them and they were some of the freest games ever. They’re just so broken that it makes the game feel un-fun. Champs with strong early game that outscale most other champs should not be a thing.

    • @Raven116
      @Raven116 Рік тому

      fiora is a bit different from others, even if you are winning lane so hard your teamfight presence wont be as big as the others, fiora is good for splitting and taking 1v2s but thats it, carrying as a fiora is only possible if you are miles above enemy, others all have some kind of cc while fiora has a slow which can be easily baited, meanwhile others are able to carry much better. I agree with the part it is not fun but definitly not as strong as others

    • @pootisfilms8272
      @pootisfilms8272 Рік тому

      i'd swap out camille for darius tbh

    • @BigMuskachini
      @BigMuskachini Рік тому +3

      @@Raven116 cope fiora is easily the most broken and unfair of the 4 with the most autowin kit

    • @BigMuskachini
      @BigMuskachini Рік тому

      I have the exact same champs i refuse to play lmao, i have hated every single one of those champs since their release.

    • @pootisfilms8272
      @pootisfilms8272 Рік тому

      @@BigMuskachini i dont think she is autowin but she is very badly designed tbh, ridiculous laning phase allowing her to bully a lot of melee champs

  • @Armorion
    @Armorion Рік тому

    My Boy

  • @MrLethalZero
    @MrLethalZero Рік тому

    He’s always been played but now he’s popular, I miss when he wasn’t this popular, I actually stopped playing league after worlds because I knew he was going to be hard to pick

  • @Topunito
    @Topunito Рік тому +2

    I feel like Aatrox has one of the best gameplay designs in the game (in my opinion) but he feels a little too powerful at the moment.
    His design feels incredibly complete, fair, and ridiculously fun to play, but it may not be very clear when he's so powerful.

  • @StarRider253
    @StarRider253 Рік тому +1

    12:05 is a HUUUUGE stretch, at least at the moment. His numbers are currently pretty ridiculous

  • @myonwontstfu
    @myonwontstfu Рік тому

    Hiero bgm. Imagine aatrox TA where you gotta dodge/block his telegraphed aoes like balls on ShiroKuro... Mimesis is also pretty similar to what happened to darkins

  • @Hclody95
    @Hclody95 Рік тому +3

    tl;dr : its a stupid broken champ that they refuse to nerf

  • @zoemaomi
    @zoemaomi Рік тому

    is that blue archive bgm you're using in the vid

  • @CrityCrit
    @CrityCrit Рік тому

    So odd2 seasons ago seeing him was strange now he’s been op for 2 seasons.

  • @ranger3551
    @ranger3551 Рік тому +1

    May I ask why you don’t like Riven? I don’t find her annoying when playing against her and when I occasionally pick her, nobody’s talking crap about my champ even when I’m fed.

  • @noztk
    @noztk 7 місяців тому +2

    Aatrox is fun to play until you meet a stupid other champ who stacks conqueror in unser 2 seconds and are like "okay whatever"

  • @Gjozt25
    @Gjozt25 Рік тому +1

    Yo, I’ve played aatrox since his first release. Before the rework. THATS the version that would be disgustingly busted in the current game. He’s always been good. Items right now are just ridiculous. Eclipse, black cleaver or gore, grudge(bad rn), or jaksho, hydra are his first two items. ALWAYS.

  • @karsonkammerzell6955
    @karsonkammerzell6955 Рік тому

    I just can never get use to the Q + E. Just don't have the micro for it I guess. Same reason I don't try to do anything flashy on Lee.

  • @zyad48
    @zyad48 Рік тому

    I just wish anti-heal didn't suck :(
    There comes a point where the amount he can drain tank is just too much and I wish there were good anti-heal options for that

  • @chiki5152
    @chiki5152 Рік тому +1

    Pantheon has been dragged down a lot by the durability update while it just made aatrox lose skill expression and made him way easier, to the point where probably only spearshot could kill aatrox consistently

  • @trickle1386
    @trickle1386 Рік тому +2

    This one can be short. Cause he’s broken af right now.

  • @jackdeangelo7377
    @jackdeangelo7377 Рік тому

    When you said that people have one champ they refuse to play off of principle and for my that's fiora and teemo

  • @watmaname1117
    @watmaname1117 Рік тому

    did I hear Blue Archive soundtrack there?
    oh you naughty boy Vars

  • @Wlightning25
    @Wlightning25 Рік тому +1

    Does anyone know what the song is in the outro?