Welcome to my Aatrox guide that will hopefully fill your needs as both a build and a basic guide on how to play the champion. Feel free to skip around to the parts you are actually looking for and leave a comment if you have any questions. And also, the standard item build, though it is standard, should not be used every single game. You should always change your items around depending on the aspects of the game you are in and make sure you have all the things you need to avoid becoming useless or getting instakilled and feeding.

Edit PSA: BEWARE CURRENT TOP AATROX GUIDE, FILLED WITH MISINFORMATION
Clearly the top guide maker doesnt even play the game, he recommends taking runes which no longer exist and also claims rage blade is your bread and butter, maybe if you like getting **** on all game and never being ahead that is a great item but in reality it is not needed at all, massive noobtrap. also claims akali is an easy match up but you will be looking like a dumbass if you walk into that matchup thinking you are gonna have an easy time, akali will dodge your Q everytime and she will massively outdamage you, beware mobafire guide makers, most are very low elo players who only have an imaginary concept of how the game works and do not apply it to reality. just a friendly PSA. EDIT: yes just confirmed it he is silver 4 people, beware.

Stop stealing my ****ing pros and cons for your stupid ****ing guide

Pros

-Heavy free sustain thanks to Blood Thirst / Blood Price

-Gap closer with crowd control with Dark Flight

-Really nice slow in Blades of Torment

-Nice nuke plus a massive steroid with Massacre

-So many free stats with Blood Well Massacre Blood Thirst / Blood Price

-Overpowered revival passive, Blood Well

-Decent cooldowns


Cons

-Will be nerfed, Updated, got nerfed ty riot

-Melee carry, Get fed or get ****ed

-Unreliable gap closer Dark Flight if you aren't very good at skill shots

-Abilities cost health, but his Blood Thirst / Blood Price will get it back since it's broken right now, update: not that broken anymore

-Very expensive itemization, requires very good farm or kills to get the items when you are going to need them.

Summoner spells can be game changing at times, so try to make sure you take the right ones for the occasion.

Take flash ignite every game or smite instead of ignite if jungling. Flash is by far the best summoner spell in the game and will allow you to make massive amounts of plays. Ignite will allow you to nuke people early game and shut down any life stealers later on and still do good damage.


Take teleport if you dont think you're good enough to snowball lane as soon as possible, it will allow you to stay in lane forever with your sustain and assist your team if needed, MAKE SURE YOU TP ON THE ****ING TOWER IF YOU GO BACK TO LANE IT LOWERS THE CD A **** TON DONT BE THAT NOOB.

So for new runes you take lethal tempo since your kit revolves around attack speed and it is currently a highly underrated rune, it makes your all-ins very powerful all game and can easily secure a kill level 2 if played correctly. the rest are self explanatory really triumph to save your *** in close fights alacrity for more attack speed, last stand since you will get low and sustain during fights, and resolve for some tanky stats though sorcery has some viable options in it as well.

So you rush the ol Ravenous hydra early since it gives a large amount of damage sustain and wave clear, you can hold off on attack speed since you get so much from your passive ult and runes. then move on to Blade of the ruined king for more chasing power and damage/attack speed. build tanky if you need to or just go all out damage and never group, do not build the same items every game you need to adjust your build to the situation learn to play the game clowns this is why you're low elo

Passive

Blood Well -

This passive is pretty simple but rather overpowered in my opinion. It is pretty much a Zac passive Cell Division minus the ability to actually reduce the amount healed or kill the target during the healing process. Not only that but Aatrox gains passive attack speed based on how much blood is in his pool. I do not really see why they would make his passive like this after just releasing Zac with a similar, yet clearly weaker passive. It heals for a little over half the HP bar when filled all the way and is activated upon hitting 0 Health. overall very helpful and will make Aatrox a pain to kill.

Dark Flight.
Aatrox's gap closer and crowd control effect all wrapped into one, it's like a skill shot version of Alistar's Headbutt + Pulverize combo. Since this skill is mostly for the utility you should only put one point in it early and max it last.

Blood Thirst / Blood Price UPDATED: MAX 2nd
This ability is, in my opinion, his best ability. It is a passive that you can re-activate to change to it's other state. The first component is Blood Thirst, this gives a massive heal every third hit, much like Xin Zhao's Battle Cry. This will keep you healthy in lane as long as you can get to your minions. When Aatrox goes below 50% HP the healing amount TRIPLES, that's right folks, triples, im not joking here. This means in extended fights Aatrox should be able to out damage and heal most champs making him a great duelist.

The second part of this ability is Blood Price, and like the name would suggest this passive costs HP, at that cost you gain a heavy amount of extra damage every third auto attack. This bonus damage, along with the healing part, scale off of bonus AD which is pretty crazy. With this passive combined with a nice mix of attack speed, AD, and crit damage, you will burst extremely hard with just your auto attacks.

Blades of Torment UPDATE: max 1st
This ability is a very nice slow with some pretty decent damage, it is a new skill shot that starts out as two lines and comes together into a point at the end of its path. This ability's slow has increased length as it scales, max first to poke a **** ton in lane
Massacre
Aatrox's Ultimate, this ability not only does a large AoE nuke but will also gain a heavy amount of attack speed and his auto attack range with be increased, this ability lasts for quite some time and it also has a nice 1:1 AP ratio on it making an AP on hit build pretty decent on him. This ability combined with his W and passive attack speed will make him a beast at dueling, he will gain so much health while dealing great amounts of damage.

Update: will be changed once he is reworked.

Laning

When you are laning as Aatrox you want to try and force trades often,as well as look to hit level 2 before your opponent and all in them instantly with Q + W, it can get many early kills, and with your high natural sustain you can heal back anything as long as you can safely hit the minions for lifesteal. Your opponent will likely not have the sustain you have since you W is very powerful. Once you have some lifesteal from items you can press this playstyle even more, but ward up and watch out for ganks, you can't sustain back if you get instakilled by their jungler and top.

Mid Game - Team fights

At this point you should have a few of your core items depending on how well you are farming and your kills. This is about the point grouping will occur and team fights begin. Aatrox has great teamfighting capabilities with his AoE abilities and crowd control.
but he sucks if you miss anything so you should probably just sit top and apply pressure while your team pressures the other side of the map, switch to bot lane if baron is up so your team can grab it when they come to 5 man you.

Your main goal should usually be to burst their AD or AP carry down fast, depending on which one is a bigger threat. Sometimes their front line is a bigger issue then their carries though so you should try to peel for your carries with your CC and take out the biggest threat first. Your going to want to try and get near the enemies without blowing your Dark Flight instantly as they will just respond with an escape of their own. Try and Slow them with your Blades of Torment and beat them till they flash or jump away then Dark Flight after them. Try to use your Massacre when you think the fight is going to start to get the full effect in the team fight.

Late game

At this point Baron Nashor and inhibs are going to be your main focus, along with just ending the game that is. Keep Sight ward and Vision Ward up on baron at all time and if there is a proper opening go for it, make sure there is little to no risk or you will throw the game right then and there. Once you have a clear advantage (baron, inhibs taken, massive gold lead) you are going to want to press this advantage to wrap up the game. If one lane is pushing with inhib down push down other lanes so they will not focus on protecting that lane. If you have Baron then just siege down towers with the health rejen. Beware, baron doesn't make you invincible so don't just tower dive for no reason. If you can make proper plays and work with your team pushing advantages you should be able to walk away a winner.

Well this has been another guide by me, TheRealGir("hi im gir"- ingame name), best guide maker ever. I have just now decided I will never be returning to Mobafire. I understand why it gets so much hate and is considered the worst build site for league. You people prefer **** filled guides that detail how to ward over and over as long as it has proper coding and pretty little pictures on it. I don't know if you people have picked up a book that was not meant for a six year old, but they are just pure text. No colorful pictures to help your feeble minds. You all suck and will stay in bronze and silver forever.
Good day. Update: Hi moba fire I have returned now as a diamond player to once again bestow upon thee my grand knowledge. Feel free to attempt to comprehend the things I bring to your feeble minds. Feel free to add me in game if you want any direct help

UPDATE AGAIN: hello hello my good people I am back once more to update my ultimate guide, I am currently looking to go indepth once aatrox is reworked to cash in on all the hype so look forward to that.