Talk:Vladimir/@comment-24010081-20150530154016/@comment-5955640-20150614045229

Mordekaiser has sustain via his shield. He mitigates a lot of his damage so that when he buys spell vamp he can get free health even in trades as long as his shield's up.

Aatrox has been rather thoroughly nerfed so that his natural sustain isn't good enough to make up for the fact that he has to tank a fight to survive it and be useful. Aatrox is now operating under melee carry rules rather than sustain tank rules (he needs to get fed early where he is technically at his most weakest to carry the game as the focus you can't quite kill.)