There are so many incorrect statements here. E max grants Aatrox better pushing power, and makes him harder to itemize against (his main damage tool being magical but still scaling with AD). Second, his W is honestly fine at rank 2 for early game. It does it's job just fine that way. Bork doesnt always have to be the first item. I don't agree with his build as a whole, but Hydra works fine too. It gives you more raw damage output, and quicker to spike people that you can't chase and auto attack. Next, who the **** rushes the recurve bow? You rush the Bildgewater when you got blade. the slow, the extra damage, the lifesteal. Sexy. And I like how you use the word "skilled" in the same sentence as Tryndamere and Nasus. Aatrox loses both of these lanes, but he does tend to have a better team fight than both of them, so he can atleast assist his team better than they can.

As an aatrox main I say this build is very bad. Reasons are that whatever you do, you always max W in any lane. I used to max E when I was noob and I lost all lanes. Now I only lose lane to very skilled trynda and nasus. Never losing lane in other cases. Buying BOTRK as 1st item is essential without it aatrox is **** champion. Aatrox when buys recurve bow starts to get huuuge advantage in lane that only few champs can get over. That is nasus and trynda on which u cant sustain enough bcs of those crits. Jax? hah what jax (deleted). Riven? hah what riven (deleted (tho take notice that riven in most cases win against aatrox tho i never lost to riven). BTW u win against trynda early game kill him as much as you can or u will be so behind that u wont be able to kill adc. Tho in every game I with aatrox I have alot of CS. So CS is important!!!!

It's not as much "not fitting in the meta" as much as it is that his skillset is very underwhelming right now. The meta is definitely shifting away from full tank top laners but that really won't help him that much yet.

He is in a weak state now as he doesnt fit the meta and most people know how to abuse his weaknesses and they know to drag out the game as Aatrox is weaker late game. Meddler did say that they plan on doing a soft rework sometime in the future but there are just other champions that need it more.

I don't know if your a top lane type of guy but if you are then you might know that the meta is slowly but surely changing away from the tank meta.

Welcome to mobafire! From my experience it is a nice community! Anyway to the subject, I dont play adc much but Aatrox does have the stats of a ADC and is auto reliant like a ADC and could be a champion to look into or maybe even Gnar. In "Elo Hell" he is amazing as people dont know how to abuse his weaknesses and his overall kit is to crush lower elo. Just read the guide in any areas you dont know about. If you still need help then message me.

Elo hell doesn't exist, get over it. He's a relatively easy champion but in a rather weak state right now.

I just made a account on moba because I saw your post on Reddit. I play ADC most of the time at lower elo (Im silver 5), and I sometimes don't get my role and I have to play top lane. Is Aatrox a easy champion for a ADC to transition to and is he gud in elo hell?

it is a good item but in certain situations as noted above.

It's not, but health as a whole has been nerfed hard and there needs to be a drawback to a perma-slow. I'd argue FM is pretty decent if you can really use the slow and aren't concerned about efficiency. In straight up stats and utility, FM is better than Warmogs. Think last item.

Frozen Mallet isn't cost efficient, second thing is that it has close to no defensive value since it doesn't provide any resistance. What this means is that Frozen Mallet has to be built as an offensive item, not a defensive one. Warmogs + Visage is needed for the increase HP regen and helps against poke comps or healing up after a fight and going to the next objective. Frozen Mallet can be good if your fight champions that have 0 gap closer but with the meta now days every carry has to have some gap closer/ escape to be good (kalista, zed, fizz, LB, Kat, and vayne). Its not a bad item but it just doesnt have to much of a high priority to build. I will say it can be institutional vs a team with no mobility except they have increase movement speed (trundle,Udyr,malz,sivir,leona is a perfect team to by this against)

700 gold is still a lot and does not do as much damage as you think. It adds 25AD compare to Hydra's 75 ad. In my build I try to find the way the best synergizes Aatrox's kit and playstyle to get the best possible win-rate and impact on the game. Statikk offers the same AS as BOTRK at a cheaper cost. Its easier to build Statikk as well due to zeal being cheap and avarice blade being cheap and granting gold per/sec. Also the 20% crit may not look like much but Aatrox attacks more then the average champion. Meaning the more you auto the more likely you will crit and it will do 450'ish damage compare to a added 8% of the current hp as physical damage.

Visage is better than maw as it offers tank stats, cd, and the passive heals you more in blood well. Both great items but Visage is a higher priority vs a evenly physical and magic damage team. HOWEVER BOTH ARE REALLY GOOD TOGETHER! So if you get thrown into a AP team then expect to own them.

Hi I don't agree with Staikk shiv in your build.

Blade only cost 700 + more gold and blade with Hydra allows for Aatrox to never have any health problems as well as do plenty of damage throughout the game. % damage scales well into late game. You don't need the active to push as well as you have Hydra already as well as E max.

Hex/Maw is also better than Spirit visage. Trust me. The passive + damage it gives heals you for more compared to the increased healing from Spirit visage.

Warmogs isn't needed at all. Mallet is better gives AD and is only 100 hp less. You don't have blue smite so it helps with people not able to kite you.

Just a quick post hope you actually test out what I said and get results.