Buildin Aatrox

[quote=fbh91]So... I'm having a lot of trouble with aatrox. I looked at his skill set and bough him thinking he would be a fun top champion with good dueling skills. But I'm having a lot of trouble doing anything with him. I generally start with a doran blade and then build a blade of the ruined king because it seems like a good item for him (helping with attack speed which is good for his W, attack damage which is good for melee and life steal which makes him get even more health). But... I just feel I can't do much against most enemies. I feel VERY squishy to the point that a lot of champions can hurt me a LOT before I even get to the third hit (heal) and on the same note I feel like I'm not doing much damage at all. That on top of his other weak points (the fact that he has to be allways fighting for the best of his skills to be usefull, making him easy to gank) are giving me a hard time. As an example today I went against a nidalee and I couldn't do much. She had the advantage in ranged combat and even if I got into melee distance she could easily kill me (specially after LV 6). So yeah, I'm looking for advice on how to build him and how to play him. I've seen some of the guides on this site but they haven't worked very much. I just feel I'm really easy to kill and on top of that I don't do much damage.[/quote]

[quote=Melchee]I would built him like an Offtank. Blade of the Ruined King, Hydra/Bloodthirster, Randuins and Spirit Visage are great on him. Maybe Warmogs, maybe Malmortes, maybe Last Whisperer or something else as another item, but that's situationol. He needs tankyness because otherwise you won't survive long enough in a teamfight to dish your damage out even with your passive up (escept people completly forget to focus you even once).[/quote]

[quote=luizdeh]Played only one game. I built [[spirit visage]] coming out as a third item after [[blade of the ruined king]] and [[phantom dancer]]. Maxed R -> W -> Q -> E. I felt like he doesn't need much AD to be effective, as he does a lot of damage with W on high AS and heals insanely fast with LS, W heal and [[spirit visage]]. I finished with [[sunfire cape]] and [[wit's end]] and shit got even more ridiculous. I think I had 1.97 AS and it was a lot of fun.[/quote]

[quote=Melchee]I think that crit from Phantom is not that great on him. He isn't a carry with lots of AD who is able to land strong crits with his AAs and his W isn't benefiting from crits.[/quote]

[quote=luizdeh][quote=Melchee] I think that crit from Phantom is not that great on him. He isn't a carry with lots of AD who is able to land strong crits with his AAs and his W isn't benefiting from crits. [/quote] You are outstandingly correct, sir. He benefits from the AS, plus I like the passive and MS. Crits were an added bonus. It was definitely fun to build him that way, but he'll be more effective not going overboard on AS and getting tankier instead, be it through LS, HP or mitigation.[/quote]

[quote=Melchee]Hmm, I wonder how good Zephyr would be on him?[/quote]

[quote=caucheka][quote=Melchee] Hmm, I wonder how good Zephyr would be on him? [/quote] it lets him build ninja tabi for top lane too. that helps with early survivability.[/quote]