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Aatrox - How to be rembered as a hero (Remade)

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Choose Champion Build:

Top lane
Jungle (only build)

Spells:

Ignite

Flash

Items

Start Choice 1

Start Choice 2

Start Choice 3

Early Game

After Early

6th item

Boots and Enchantment

End Game build

End Game build (no boots)

Ability Order

Aatrox Passive Ability

Introduction

Hi! I'm SeekerOfJustice from EU West server and I will show you , The Darkin Blade. He is a melee dps champ, with good mobility, sustain, damage and lifesteal, he is indeed a good jungler. He's based on his AA, so his build is a mixture of attack damage, attack speed and lifesteal, with some health for more survivability.
(English isn't my first language so excuse any grammatical errors i made)

Lore

Aatrox is a legendary warrior, one of only five that remain of an ancient race known as the Darkin. He wields his massive blade with grace and poise, slicing through legions in a style that is hypnotic to behold. With each foe felled, Aatrox's seemingly living blade drinks in their blood, empowering him and fueling his brutal, elegant campaign of slaughter.
The earliest tale of Aatrox is as old as recorded history. It tells of a war between two great factions remembered only as the Protectorate and the Magelords. Over time, the Magelords won a series of crushing victories, leaving them on the brink of obliterating their sworn enemy forever. On the day of their final confrontation, the Protectorate army found themselves outnumbered, exhausted, and poorly equipped. They braced for inevitable defeat.

Just when all hope seemed lost, Aatrox appeared among the ranks of the Protectorate. With but a few words, he urged the soldiers to fight to the last before throwing himself into battle. His presence inspired the desperate warriors. At first, they could only watch in awe as this unknown hero cleaved through their enemies, his body and blade moving in unison as if one being. Soon, the warriors found themselves imbued with a potent thirst for battle. They followed Aatrox into the fray, each fighting with the furious strength of ten until they had won a most unlikely victory.

Aatrox vanished after that battle, but the Protectorate army's newfound fury did not. Their surprising triumph led to many more until they were able to finally return home victorious. Their countrymen hailed them as heroes, but though they had saved their entire civilization from destruction, darkness lingered in the mind of each warrior. Something within them had changed. Over time, their memories of battle faded, only to be replaced with a grim revelation: their acts of heroism were, in fact, brutal atrocities committed by their own hands.

Tales like these appear among the myths of many cultures. If they are all to be believed, Aatrox's presence has changed the course of some of the most important wars in history. Though these stories remember him as a savior in dark times, Aatrox's true legacy may be a world filled with conflict and strife.

"Some fight for honor, some fight for glory. It matters only that you fight."
―Aatrox

Pros/Cons

+ Good damage and life steal
+ Passive like a
+ Good escape with
+ No mana, and only 2 spells waste health

- Weak against hard CC
- Low base defensive stats
- You must know when to toggle off/on /

Aatrox weakness

Ability sequence

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

Innate Passive: Whenever Aatrox uses an ability that costs health, he stores 100% of the health cost into his Blood Well. The maximum amount of health the Blood Well can store is equal to 30 + (45 x level). If Aatrox has not dealt or received damage in the last 5 seconds, his Blood Well will deplete at a rate of 2% per second.
Upon taking fatal damage, Blood Well activates and places Aatrox in stasis for 3 seconds. Over the stasis duration the Blood Well is emptied and Aatrox restores health equal to its contents plus 10.5 + (15.75 x level). Blood Well's activation has a static cooldown and is unaffected by cooldown reduction.
Also, Aatrox passively increases his attack speed by 1% for every 2% in the Blood Well.

-Well, this passive is like a , but in addition give a lot of attack speed when is full charged. Must be full charged specially at death, so that earnings the max health as possible, poke with on the enemy champion, regain health with on minion is the best thing.

Blood Well

Active: Aatrox takes flight and slams down at a targeted location, dealing physical damage in a large area. Enemies in the center of the blast are also knocked up for 1 second.

-This is 's initiation skill, use to start a fight or go back in bad situation. The knock time of doesn't increase like slowing time of and with slow from this slow you can hit the enemy easily with your on, that why is better upgrade this skill for last.

Dark flight

Passive: TOGGLE OFF: Aatrox heals himself on every third attack. If Aatrox is below 50% health he will heal for three times as much.
TOGGLE ON: Aatrox deals bonus physical damage on every third attack at the cost of health.

-The skill about who is based , farm or poke using and when the bar of is charged toggle , excels as a duelist, able to switch to for heavy burst damage when trading with his lane opponent, when your health go under 50% against a enemy toggle the you gain more health when tour life is under the 50%.

Active: Aatrox unleashes and sends forward the power of his blade, dealing magic damage to enemies in a line and slowing them by 40% for a few seconds.

-Very good to slow down, chase and poke an enemy champion or run away from him, it's very good to poke the enemy from distance.

Blade of torment

Final Active: Aatrox draws in the blood of his foes, dealing magic damage to nearby enemy champions.
For the next 12 seconds, Aatrox gains bonus attack speed and 175 bonus attack range (325 total range). His attacks are still considered melee.

-This Skill is very useful, combined with and do a lot of AoE damage in teamfight, the extra attack speed is very good to do increase your DPS or recharge life quickly.

Massacre

1vs1

-You start the battle

-Begins the battle with , must be on to do de max damage as possible (before the battle, recharge lost the health with ),If you reach the >50% toggle on the and hope. When the enemy is knock up active and after burn his health with some AAs, he try to run away? + (if you haven't ignite use or chase him with ). If the enemy is another or a champion with lot of lifesteal like use ignite before, if he engage the battle.

-He start the battle

-Depending on the enemy, but anyone both, toggle on , active :

He is winning or his jungler is coming? Blades of Torment+ Dark Flight+ Flash or Ghost or Exhaust back to your tower, Bye!
You are winning or your jungler is coming? Blades of Torment+ Dark Flight+ Flash or Ghost or Exhaust to chase+ Ignite, Bye!

Team fights

’s mobility gives him an innate ability to pressure enemy carries in team fights. grants plenty of sustain as he tangos with enemy initiators and tanks. When he sees an opportunity to reach an enemy carry, closes the gap and allows the punishment to begin. When Aatrox is in deep, the area of effect burst and extra range from , and slow on prevent high-value targets from escaping. All the while the consistent healing from and resurrection effect from keep him alive long enough to cut through enemy squishes.

If ’s team is on the defensive, a well-aimed can slow multiple enemies and open a window for retreating allies to slip away. If you are focused, ’s sustain and the keep him in the fight, giving his teammates an opportunity to cut through foes as he resurrects and delivers the killing blow.

Masteries

TOP Lane

Jungler

- 21/9/0 is the best tree upgrade for , all to increase Armor Penetration, Attack Damage, Attack Speed, also i try the masteries 13/17/0 and it's was a good game. However the 9/21/0 are good too if you are the tank/initiator because you had some tenacity from and the self healing from . For the jungle masteries i take the 9/21/0 because usually i'm the tank if i go jungler.

Runes

Precision

Fleet Footwork

Phase Rush

Greater Seal of Armor+ Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist: Increase base stats, against a possible Ad or AP enemy champion
Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage+ Greater Mark of Attack Damage: As usual, doubts remain about the runes, i think this is the best runes for Aatrox, can be switched in greater quintessence of armor penetration or greater mark of armor penetration.

Items

Core Build

Usually the boots i take for are the , because after the early game items i go for the , so armor and magic resistance are almost equal and i have early the healing of the spirit visage, but if you need tenacity early (and aatrox benefit a lot from tenacity) take the and after the early take the so you have the same armor-magic resist proportion.

The essential item for , give all he need: attack speed, attack damage and lifesteal, more better then at early phase, because don't need snowballing and give the attack speed you need for reach the 3rd AA more times.

Tons of AoE damage, very good item for , give a lot of AD, lifesteal and in addition some health regeneration, the good thing of this item is the AoE life steal AAs. (ANNOTATION: works also with !

Give health, magic resist and 20 of CdR, the passive give +20% of the all things of health regeneration, that's why is one of the best item on aatrox

Actually with the is the main defensive items core of Aatrox, this item give a lot of health and armor, his active is very good because slow down the enemies around aatrox, so you can hit them easily with your AAs.

Usually i sell the mercury and take it, because i gain a lot of AD and attack speed and the same tenacity, but i lost 20 of movement speed so it's isn't very good for aatrox, however if you prefer hold your boots take the zephyr as 6th items and for boots the tabi or the berserker, it's the best way.

Items synergy explanation

1.+= Give lot of health and a good combination of armor and magic resistance

2.++= The health gain from the 27% of AoE lifesteal, the 15 health regeneration and the active of the Botrk are increased by the 20%

3.+= If you are running away, chasing one enemy or focus anyone in teamfight, the two actives of these items (use the blade for first) slow down the enemy as a hell so you can hit him very hard and easily

4.+= Give all the attack speed you need and a lot movement in teamfight when you throw the passive of the Botrk.

Other good items

: this item is very good defensive pick for aatrox, with Massacre slow down the enemies from the distance and burst them with AAs of Blood Price
: You deal more damage and take more health from the lifesteal (can replace Black Cleaver against an enemy team with lot of armor).
: Only if the enemy team focus you hard.

Situational

:It can be buy as last item, because gain much AD and lifesteal as a Ravenous Hydra, but only if you really need to do more damage.
:Well, aatrox benefit a lot from the attack speed, because he can reach the 3rd AA more faster, but i prefer the other 2 boots because give more defensive stats.
:Can be a good replacement of the Randuin's Omen if you want be more aggressive, but don't give the same health and armor and you are against a team which benefit from attack speed ( Kayle+ Fiora+another Aatrox) the randuin is more better.
: like Maw of Malmortius give attack damage an magic resistance, but the active effect remove all debuffs like Cleanse, good items for Aatrox against ALL CC (airbone and knock back aren't included, they are heaviest CC in the game), you must take it when you need to focus one champ who feed a lot but it's difficult to hit because he has a lot of CC or movement (ex: Ahri)
:If the enemy team have a lot of AD champ with lot of attack speed ( Fiora+AD carry+another Aatrox.
:Against a team with lot of AP champ is a good pick, the best thing of this is items is it's give more AD for your missing health, on aatrox is very good because he remain with low health a lot of time.

Wards

-Warding saves you from enemy ganks, see the blue circles, where you can put your wards.

warding

Summoner Spells

Best Choices for Aatrox

To take kills and to do some tricks or escape in bad situations, can be replaced with , because you already have for ista-escape. (combined with or )

Very good at begin for 1vs1 and if the enemy champion try to run away (combined with or )

To chase an enemy of run away quickly, i don't think is the best pick for (combined with )

is great for first blood or securing a kill (combined with all)

Terms and uses of the game

In game

GG: good game! / BG: bad game!
GJ: good job!
WP: well play!
GL & HF: good luck and have fun!!!
OMG: Oh my God :O
STFU: Erhm... keep quiet...
SS: Missing, write it when an enemy go away from your lane
Re: Returned, write it when the missing enemy return

Skills, Abilities, Stats and Other:

AP: Ability Power
AD: Attack Damage
MR: Magic Resistance
Ar: Armor
MP: Magic Penetration
ArPen: Armor Penetration
CdR: Cooldown Reduction
DpS: Damage for second
Aoe: Area Of Effect
AA: Auto attack, normal attack (right click)
CC: Crowd Control is divide into:
-Hard CC like Stun, Silence or Airbone (An abilities like is included in Hard CC)
-Soft CC like Blind, Slow or Snare

Thanks

I say thank at:

jhoijhoi for the guide on how to make guides
my friend God of Doom, because he help to write this words
You because you are reading now!

Changelogs

11/30/2013

Added "changelogs" chapter. Put the 2 point of Sorcery in Blade Weaving and Spell Weaving (still try to improve my English grammar)

12/10/2013

Add some situational or good items (working on a build for jungle games)

12/15/2013

Make a bit of changes in the build fixed the BB coding

12/21/2013

Fixed the item chapter, make some changes on the main build, add different upgrades of masteries

01/01/2014

Changed the ability sequence and the items section

04/19-23/14

Added jungle build, changed the masteries