Talk:Aatrox/@comment-4542190-20140510191205

Imho, Aatrox needs a good mix of offense and defense. If you go full damage, you'll be squishy as *** and the passive won't be enough all the time. If you go full tank on the other hand, you'll have no damage and an aa-based hero with no damage is...well, no need to expand.

My preferred defensive items are Guardian Angel and Spirit Visage. Guardian Angel is essentially another Blood Well (it goes first)-when you have both up, you're REALLY difficult to kill. Spirit Visage's stats are pretty good and the passive benefits Aatrox in many ways: the Blood Thirst proc, the lifesteal from items and the health you get from Blood Well.

Offensively, I use many different items at times. I get Blade of the Ruined King almost every time (in one game, this was the only offensive item I had-built many defense, because the enemy team was heavy on both AD and AP-went 11/4/something.) Others I consider are Youmuu's Ghostblade (the AS you can get from full bar Blood Well + ulti + Youmuu's active is just insane among other things. Or you can use it to compensate after the bar depletes for the revival.), Black Cleaver, Hydra, Zephyr (haven't tried that one yet) etc.

Haven't tried the hybrid items yet (Hextech, Guinsoo's) since Aatrox have AP scalings (mixed in Blades of Torment and 1:1 ratio on ulti. By the same token, do you consider scaling AP glyphs good on him?