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FIORA IS THE BANE OF AATROX MAINS. She is designed to counter you and punishes you for playing perfectly all because of her W ability. It makes her immune to your Q damage and stuns you if you hit her with the edge, it is also very easy for Fiora to land this as Aatrox Q has a long timer. Always ban this champ as she beats you early game and also outscales you. To counter try to bait her W as it has a long cooldown, you can do this by E out of the way before she can stun you then go all in. Additional buy an executioner's calling to reduce her ult healing and her ravenous hunter.
Irelia
Very hard to hit as she is super mobile, even with your E. She heals a lot so i recommend you buy an executioners. Her W is similar to Fiora's W except is doesn't stun or make her invulnerable but lasts longer, has a shorter cooldown and reduces physical damage by 50%. She will try to use this on your 3rd Q so be careful as the damage reduction is significant, her W is similar to Fiora but not as bad. To counter her E out of the way if she tries to E you and Ult or flash at the same time she does.
Jax
Just annoying as he is pretty mobile and able to jump onto you so it hard to land you Q knockup and his counters your passive. Just don't auto him if he E's you to save your passive and rush Tabi's for his W.
Camille
Camille is not very fun for Aatrox, not only does she outscale you, she also beats you early. Her high mobilty and shield makes it hard to damage her. To counter her try and Q knockup when she goes for her second E.
Wukong
Similar to Jax and Irelia as he is super mobile and able to dodge you Q and W with his E and clone dash. His high armour from his passive makes it hard to deal damage to him and heal of him. Get tabis quick and rush a cleaver by skipping Cauldfield's to deal with his armour.
Poppy
Tanky and deals lots of damage and has a way to dash up to you and stun you which makes it hard to get you Q knockup, but after she uses her combo she is useless so use that to all in her and poke her whenever she tries to get her shield. Stay away from walls to make her not stun you. Skip Cauldfield's and rush cleaver to deal with her armour passive on her W.
Riven
As you can tell, there is a common trend. Aatrox doesn't do well into mobile champs as it makes it hard to land his abilities. Riven is one of them as her Q and E make her very mobile and almost impossible for the W chains to proc. The only reason why she isn't on the top of this list is because she doesn't have an ability similar to Fiora and Irelia W. To counter her Q E backwards if she tries to Q into you.
Sett
He has low mobility so he is easy to kite but does lots of damage when he gets close to you so kite him with Q E. He will try to W you when his bar is full so dodge that and also don't Q him when he presses W so you don't damage his shield. If you follow these steps then you should be fine.
Darius
Similar to Sett, just learn to kite and E into him when he presses Q to avoid the edge. Also somthing i learned is NEVER go for the 3rd Q unless it will kill him or your jungler is ganking as you will just allow him to do his full combo with no retalition as make him easily stack his passive, his E has a long cooldown so use that to try and all in if he misses it. Buy an executioners so he can't heal that much of his Q.
Mordekaiser
This is really a skill based matchup. Similar to Darius, E away to try dodge his E then all in as it also has a long cooldown. Don't stand still as he can easily Q you and keep moving and stand near minions to avoid the bonus damage if it hits a single target.
Garen
His only way to get close to you is with his Q so kite him with Q E. If he Q's you, you are screwed as you can't Q him while silenced. his tankiness from his W also makes him annoying so skip cauldfield's and rush exectioner's.
Akali
Akali is very mobile but is very squishy. If she tries to E into you save up your Q to knock her up while she dashes to interrupt it. You also don't have any targeted abilities so take an oracle lens so you Q her while she is invisible and use control wards to scout for their
jungler instead.
Maokai
In theory he should counter you as his W makes you hard to Q him but his early game is garbage as he need items to scale and suffers from mana problems, abuse this to win the early game but beware, he outscales you hard.
Dr. Mundo
Similar to Maokai, Mundo doesn't do much without items as he is very 'stat checky'. Rush as executioners into cleaver to reduce the healing on his ult and buy a Doran's shield to deal with his Q spam.
Teemo
Most top laners despise Teemo but i love going against him. You Q and his auto have similar range so you can poke him whenever he autos you and make him afraid to poke you which is his only job. He is very squishy so your damage as healing is insane and you can usually kill him with one combo which is why i take electrocute against him instead of conqueror as you need burst and conqueror is better for dealing with tankier champs. His Q is useless against you as you don't rely on autos, you're a spell based champ and you can take oracle lens to see him invisible and his mushrooms and use control wards to scout for their jungler. Just take Doran's shield and second wind on your secondary tree as he can poke you more than you can to him.
Lulu
With Lulu ult you become unstoppable, the increased size from the ult and your own and Sterak's gage makes you look 50ft big,
Morgana
Aatrox has trouble catching up to people and hard CC which is why Morg is perfect, she has a 3 second root so you can land all your Q's without a single E or W and her Black Shield removes your CC weakness.
Yasuo
You have 3 knockups in your kit so you can easily set up big ults for your Yasuo if you play it smart.
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Lulu
With Lulu ult you become unstoppable, the increased size from the ult and your own and Sterak's gage makes you look 50ft big,
Morgana
Aatrox has trouble catching up to people and hard CC which is why Morg is perfect, she has a 3 second root so you can land all your Q's without a single E or W and her Black Shield removes your CC weakness.
Yasuo
You have 3 knockups in your kit so you can easily set up big ults for your Yasuo if you play it smart.
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