Talk:Aatrox/@comment-24823977-20140603111146/@comment-4636093-20140603201706

I'm a huge advocate of Rageblade on quite a few champions. It's one of the strongest items you can buy if you can use all the stats it gives and keep the stacks high enough.

But I'm not sure if Aatrox really counts. If he's sitting in lane last hitting, then engages on the enemy while he has a full blood pool and all 8 rageblade stacks, ults then chops them up, then he has gained the full use of the stats a rageblade gives.

But if he ults before he has all 8 stacks then half the AP is wasted. And if he waits to ult until he has those 8 stacks then he misses out on the attack speed until then.

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I am looking quite closely at the item right now and comparing it to Aatrox's kit and I must say it gives quite a lot of what he likes if you're going for a damaging item, and fits into his kit provided you can fit at least one auto attack in between spellcasts to keep the stacks high.

But the AP and the Spellvamp is barely effective. It gives a little bit to his Blades of Torment I guess but that's about it.