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Threats & Synergies
Fizz
Very dangerous. All I can say is good luck. Don't try to fight this guy, really. He just kites way too well with his PLAYFUL ******* TRICKSTER. What I usually do is change up my runes, go for Boneplate, and for Chryssalis (how do you spell that..). This will prevent his early all ins, and simply farm up. At level 6 it becomes more even. Some idiots playing Fizz may burn their E too early, too early being when you haven't Q'd yet. If he uses his E, you can simply knock him up and start hitting his fish face. Still, you have to be careful. His damage is absolutely broken, and they often take ignite, to ruin your healing. How to punish a fizz using his E? It's covered in the all-ins video, in the all in section. Fiddlesticks is/is not on the list of level 1 harassing champions. (This means that you can start W, but don't use it to prepare an all in, you won't win it, except if they burn their E's.)
Introduction
THIS GUIDE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, A LOT OF THINGS ARE STILL MISSING, YOU CAN STILL GIVE FEEDBACK THOUGH :)
Hello Aatrox maties!
Welcome to the Midtrox guide. Yes, I know, I'm stupid and I should feel ashamed for doing this. Guess what? I'm not. This somewhat cheesy way of playing Aatrox climbed my 50% winrate butt from Diamond 5 to Diamond 3 in the span of 3 days, and I feel like I should celebrate that with sharing my knowledge to the rest of the world. This build is actually insanely strong. Why? Surprise factor. People were always surprised in toplane, but now that conquerer is in the game, I feel like I've been seeing more Aatrox mains playing him in toplane, so people aren't as suprised anymore. Midlane though, WOW. The ignorance flows in their faces when they get 100/0'd by level 2 Aatrox, or when their jungler dies insantly trying to kill you. It's amazing, truly, truly, amazing. And it will 100% win you games when played correctly.
So follow along Aatroxies, let's build ourselves a masterpiece!
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Pros!
- Good oneshot potential at level 6, and early all in level 2.
- Underrated, so people don't expect his damage.
- Insanely good splitpushing.
- Strong 2v1.
- Easy to play safe with.
- Easy to pick up.
- Relatively easy to master.
- Can still win after feeding first blood.
- Insane late-game power in teamfights.
- Aatrox generally counters ranged champions.
- Incredibly strong diving potential.
Cons!
- Very squishy early on, prone to jungle ganks.
- Easy to fall behind with.
- Can be difficult to keep track of passive.
- Easy to throw with once you have a lead.
Aatrox' Role
Midtrox' role is kind of weird. It's very cheesy, so it's quite difficult to put him in the right spot in the team. Generally I play Aatrox to completely shut down the enemy midlaner, to tilt them, and to then tilt their jungler by pushing in and taking all their camps. Aatrox has an insanely strong dive, due to his Q, R, E, Passive, what am I saying, he's called a Diver, for gods sake, he's insane! In the early game you shut down your enemy midlaner. In the midgame you take all drakes and dive the enemy botlane until they ragequit, in the lategame you delete adc's even though you're building full tank and disrupt the enemy backline so much while your team can safely clean them up. When teamfighting is a struggle, you become a second toplaner, and an insane splitpusher.
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Passive:
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Q:
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W:
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In fights, before you've died and revived, almost always use Price, to deal as much damage as possible before turning into Zhonyas Mode with your passive. Only use Thirst when you can finish someone off but don't need the damage or you don't have your passive up, or if you feel like your team needs more time killing the enemy frontline, so you have to stall longer, especially when you're not carrying your team with damage.
E:
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R:
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Skill Sequence explained:
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LEVELS 1 - 6:
I think I've explained it a lot, so I won't do it much again. Against Harass? Go E level 1, farm up, wait for level 6, max W first, always. Not against harass? Go W level 1, Q level 2, all in them if you have the oppurtunity, 3 level 3, and then max W.LEVELS 6-18:
We will always upgrade our ult, which is standard. You max W first generally, like, 99% of the time, but if you are having big trouble with your lane, E is also a way to go. Q is maxed last, as it doesn't provide much damage or cooldown reduction, at least not enough to make it worth it.In the build section, most of the items are already explained, so I'm just going to go over the 6th item options real quick.
- Phantom Dancer: Alright, this is not one I pick up often. However, it can be really nice if you're facing a situation where you have to become a second toplaner, but your own toplaner doesn't splitpush (tank, swain for instance). You may have to face up against Jax, who is going to be your #1 counter in the whole game. In this case taking Phantom Dancer may increase your chances of dueling him. Also it helps you with Attack Speed and Crit, which severely increases your damage and objective taking speed, and you can easily solo Baron with this item, but it also turns you into a glass cannon. Not even 4 tank items can save you from being squishy, so be careful!
- Mercurial Scimitar: Another very situational item. Usually I buy this into Fiddlesticks, who has a point click fear that renders you useless in teamfights. Sometimes I also buy it against very strong morgana players, or possibly even against other cc champions, like Malphite to cleanse his AS reduction, or Maokai, to get rid of his annoyances.
- Sterak's Gage: This one is a standard pick. If you don't know what to buy, buy this. It helps with a ton of things Aatrox wants to do. It gives health, AD, and a passive that counters burst. It also increases your size, which sometimes I feel like increases your attack range by quite a bit, which synergizes with your ultimate.
- Mortal Reminder (Not lord dominics! You're building health! : This item is useful against more than 2 or 3 tank compositions. Usually this means that the enemy team will be playing around their adc, as the adc is their only damage source besides their APC. Thus whenever you engage on them in teamfights, it's very useful to have healing reduction, to avoid the enemy adc from healing up in an instant with their millions of jannas and WHY THE HELL DOES EVERYONE PLAY SORAKA?
- Thornmail: Obvious. If you play against Yasuo's, Yi's, Vayne's, just all that annoying auto attacky stuff, build this. Also gives them grievous wounds, which helps you actually kill someone for once.
- Warmog's Armor: I don't know. I felt like putting it in here just for the 5000 hp lulz, but this isn't a very optimal item. Consider buying it only when the enemy is building insanely heavy poke. I've seen Xerath / Ezreal / Nidalee / Swain compositions being insanely irritating to play against, and you're not always going to be able to heal, so it can be nice to get free regeneration.
- Wit's End: Against high AP, when your team has AP too. Games where your jungler is nidalee, your toplaner is swain and the enemy vladimir is just pissing you off? This item's got your back. It compensates for the lack of Attack Speed in your build, but I don't think it's too optimal, because it only provides so much resistance, and the on hit damage isn't all that big. Consider buying it as an Aatrox-Version-Abyssal-Mask. When your AP's are carrying, like having scaling ap's on your team like vladimir, who wants to dive on the backline aswell, consider supporting him with this item.
- Even bloody BotrK: Against health stackers. Consider Zac/Mundo. But it's also VERY nice against some specific champions. For instance, I love this item versus Fiora and Ezreal. Fiora because as soon as she pops her ult she becomes so fast and you can steal all her movement speed to make her useless (you outscale her pretty badly), or whenever ezreal E's away and you somehow manage to miss all your abilities, you can just steal his movement speed and kill him for free, there's better options though, in most situations.
- Guinsoo's (Im sorry!): Only play when you're playing for fun. Are you 10/0 and about to win the game? Screw it, go ahead and buy it, but only buy it when you're further ahead than you've ever been, since it makes you so squishy that you won't even be able to stack your Guinsoo's stacks before you die. The AP also is mostly useless, since there's only AP scaling on your R, and you need to stack your Guinsoo's before it becomes truly strong.
- Maw of Malmortius: Pretty straight forward. Pesky burst champions like Fizz pissing you off? Maybe the enemy AP's just can't stop focussing you? Take it, and watch them cry. You get extra lifesteal until the end of the fight when it pops it's shield, which is very underrated, and people seem to forget that this item grants lifesteal, so it adds to your bonus surprise meter.
- Adaptive Helm: Vs specific champions. For instance: Cassiopeia (Q and E are affected), Heimerdinger (Turrets are affected, and burst from R-W is lowered), Evelynn (Lowers her burst), Teemo (Toxicity, gradually lowers E and R damage), Rumble (Q and R are affected. Also E when spammed), Singed.
If all goes well, and you're not playing versus an early harass midlaner, follow these steps:
1. Start W.
2. Gradually stack up your Blood Well using the first minion wave, don't push it too hard, let the second wave crash back in the middle.
3. Time your auto attacks so that you hit the first 2 attacks to kill the first minion of the second wave, now your W will be ready and you hit level 2.
4. Upgrade Q, and jump INSTANTLY on the enemy laner. Knock them up (will be very easy because they are trying to CS and will stand still. They also usually don't have mobility spells).
5. Your Q will give you the 5th stack, and then you can hit a full power Price on your opponent, which takes away about 1/3 of their health already.
6. Pop ignite, and start auto attacking.
7. Usually they flash quite late, so keep autoattacking. When they flash away (they usually do), consider flashing after them, but don't take risks! You can always kill them afterwards, since this cheese can be performed every time you have 4 stacks and Q up!
8 Use the rest of your 5 stack passive to quickly heal back up and start stacking again.
If you kill the enemy laner, simply back and buy long swords and work towards your Tiamat. Then tell your jungler mid is a free game, and abuse the enemy midlaner as much as possible from there.
If you don't kill them, well thats unfortunate. If you spagetthied your knockup, run away instantly, it's not going to work, and try again later, they still don't know your damage! If the enemy laner is 30% health, simply heal back up to full and try it again later!
AATROX ALL-INS:
Old Video's. These belonged to the Toplane Guide I originally made this for. Now, they are mostly irrelevant, but still nice to watch :)
Old Video's. These belonged to the Toplane Guide I originally made this for. Now, they are mostly irrelevant, but still nice to watch :)
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