Champion Spotlight
Learn to dominate top lane through
and in the Champion Spotlight.Aatrox's combination of
and enables a hyper-aggressive playstyle, punctuated by brazen dives and daring escapes. He excels at relentlessly pushing lanes, relying on his and to evade incoming ganks. In team fights, Aatrox's mobility takes on a more offensive bent, allowing him to dive past tanks onto valuable back line targets.Learn how to
your enemies with Aatrox in the Champion Spotlight, where we'll sample the Darkin Blade's tactics, masteries and more.Recommended Items
Tips
- Playing As
- Avoid engaging in a fight with low health unless your is full so that you regain enough health to continue fighting.
- Building Life Steal can be very potent on Aatrox to help compensate for his health costs.
- is great at turning the tide of a battle. Make sure to use it at the right moment to maximize its benefits.
- Playing Against
- When Aatrox takes fatal damage he is healed for the amount currently in his , landing a fatal blow on him while the is low will result in him reviving with a lower amount of Health.
- When Aatrox casts towards your location, avoid being knocked up by moving away from the center of impact.
- Aatrox is auto attack reliant for most of his damage and survivability, reducing his attack speed by purchasing or can help reduce both of those components greatly.
Tricks
- Ability Usage
- When it is safe to do so,
- This is more useful in the jungle than it is in lane, as intentionally lowering your health makes you vulnerable, especially to being bursted down.
increases clear speed greatly by sacrificing health. Then will quickly refund that health when you are low.
- Paying health to fuel his abilities will fill his . Remember, that it doesn't only increase health with which you will revive, but it also increases your attack speed.
- Dealing damage will stop leaking 's blood. If possible, deal damage to keep the full attack speed boost from it by attacking a minion frequently.
allows to play aggresively early on, allowing you to revive after the first death.
- Use it when starting a fight to set enemies airborne and auto-attack them a few times to maximize damage.
- Note that you have to hit with it's center to actually knock your enemies up. Hitting them with edge of this ability will only deal damage, which isn't actually high.
- When being surrounded, use it on one of approaching enemies to set them airborne, then when the effect expires, cast to slow them and allow you to escape.
- Use to jump through the walls for an unsuspected hit or to escape from the enemy.
- Use this ability to initiate fights, as the airborne effect will stop them for short duration and allow your team to lock them furthermore or just burst them down.
can be used defensively and ofensively.
- Use it when starting a fight to set enemies airborne and auto-attack them a few times to maximize damage.
- Note that it's healing is tripled when below 50% of your health, so it's better to toggle off when low on health, as healing is mostly more effective than damage.
fulfills 's great source of healing. Toggle to to heal between fights or to keep alive during the fights.
- It also deals magaic damage, so even if your enemy is building armor, they will still take significant damage from it.
is his main tool of harassing enemies when top laning. It has pretty long range, and it also slows, allowing to land some bonus attacks to your enemy.
- Maxing is probably the best option, as it grants him magic damage, decreases it's cooldown, and increases duration of slow, allowing you to endure even versus .
- has deceptively strong burst damage. Attack two times, jump into an enemy with , then cast and to take most of the health out, then attack your enemy with well-prepared .
- Mastery Usage
- Template:Rune. can in fact have enough life steal at the beginning of the game to completely negate . This requires the use of , , and
- Item Usage
- To counteract the effects of 4.2% - 20.3% Life Steal.
- The more AD acquires, the more Life Steal too, but this effect is practically marginal as it never realistically increases enough to require more than one Life Steal item.
, needs at least - Attack speed is a significant stat on
- One of the most effective items on is . It grants bonus attack speed and lifesteal, from which benefits. It also grants great active and passive components, both helping in assassinating his targets. Also, as grants bonus attack speed from , the health shred will occur more frequently.
- Another useful item on
- When going for
- grants lots of health and magic resistance. It also decreases cooldowns of your abilities and increases your base health regen greatly. It's unique component also increases health gained from life steal items, and even .
- grants bonus armor, health and critical hit resistance. It also allows you to slow surrounding enemies, allowing you to land a few more attacks. The slow from mentioned item and will allow you to near-root enemies hit for around 2~3 seconds.
- will allow you to stick to your targets. Even if your enemies will attempt to blink away, you can hit them with or just increase your attack range with . The extended attacks sstill count as melee, so it might help catch fleeing opponents. also grants some bonus damage and greatly increases health, allowing to survive for longer and increase damage from . However, it doesn't grant any other defensive stats as armor or magic resistance.
, take into consideration and . can also be considered.
is , however only if you also are going to take other health items. This item grants an on-hit effect, that will apply frequently thanks to 's attack speed boost and health boost will allow him to survive in the fight longer.
- When going for
- Ability Power will not waste, as he has medium-high ratio on his and huge ration on his .
- When going , might be also good option, as it will turn you to hybrid champion with lots of magic damage and physical damage. However, it is suggested to play him more AD-oriented, so when taking , consider also an AD item. seems perfect to match these items.
works very good on Aatrox. It will allow him when stacked to trigger / once every two attacks and fully stacked it grants attack speed and attack damage.
. It will benefit not only his damage, but also his healing from both Life Steal and .
- will allow to deal lots of damage as it grants bonus attack damage. It also grants bonus life steal and increases already high area of effect damage.
- When damage-oriented, might be pretty good, as it will allow you to reduce incoming damage and heal from all your abilities. It also grants you some form of life steal and lots of attack damage.
- When under focus of enemy mages, might prove useful. It's spell shield will negate most of the crowd-controls affecting you. Also it's magic resistance boost will greatly reduce your damage and health boostt will improve generally your survivability.
- Countering
- Template:Cctip reduces healing from . This is essential to executing any that can't be bursted down.
- seems to be an excelent counter for . He does have lots of armor from his , plus his abilities scale with armor and he can greatly reduce 's attack speed, while granting very useful ultimate for his team. However, remember that when laning, deals also much magic damage, thanks to his nad . Also, the further can negate the attack speed reduction from , so probably 1v1 is still in 's favor.
- Attack speed reduction is very effective versus , so when playing against him, consider taking or .