Talk:Aatrox/Strategy/@comment-24823977-20140416120620/@comment-24823977-20140428144118

OR for a less tanky build and more of an AD assassin style of play:

Smite and Ghost 

start : 5 health pots/  Hunter's Machete 

then build from their into(in this order):

Wriggle's Lantern -witch changes to Feral Flare when fully charged-

Blade of the Ruined King -you already have some AS so get Bilgewater Cutlass first-

The Bloodthirster-get B. F. Sword because you already have sistain so this will help with extra damage(by now you should eather have Feral Flare or be very close)

Ravenous Hydra -Tiamat first for the splash damage in a team fight and allows you to wave clear fast for split pushing also lets you get stacks for Bloodthirster and Feral Flare much faster now-

after you have thoes 4 items built look at your enemy team and how well (or bad) youve been doing and decide witch to build first out of theses two:

if your doing well but your facing a very tanky team get this first:

The Black Cleaver-get The Brutalizer first for some armor pen

if your haveing trouble surving and/or facing an AP heavy team get this first:

 Maw of Malmortius  -Hexdrinker comes first because of the sheild it gives-

if you cant decide witch to get first then get The Brutalizer and Hexdrinker (and personaly i would advise this regardless if your doing well or not). Both will help you short term by providing armor pen and a nice sheild when you get low on hp. Then once youve got some more gold you can build them up witch ever one you want first

This build focus is on damage and quick kills but the risk is that you become a hi priorty target due to your massive damage. Also CC shuts you down easly (due to your heavy reliance on AA for sistain and damage)  and your fairly squishy (tho  The Black Cleaver and  Maw of Malmortius    helps makes you a bit less squishy) so always be careful of a CC heavy enemy team.

ALSO just a side note stay near the edges of team fights AND NEVER INITIATE!! yes your dive is an ok initiation ability (and ill admit ive done it myself and still do it and its a habit i need to stop) but even if you build tank if you dive first you will get focused and even with your high amount of sistain and tankyness 1 v 5 still isent in your favor and you will be shut down fairly quickly. and yes your passive will bring you back BUT unless your Blood Well is full you will com back with almost no health(and even with Blood Well full you will only reach half health) AND your passive also provides AS (the more "Blood" you have in that resorce bar the higher your AS will be even if its on CD) cuse the moment you drop to your knees (cuse thats what he dose when he enters his stasis) your AS drops alot as well.

stick to the edges of a fight and when someone initiates you can do two things:

1) after your initiator dives you dive in after to keep the enemy off balance (its not a bad thng to do but personaly i would advise against this unless you build fairly tanky)

OR

2) look for their ADC (or APC) get as close as you can without geting caught in the fight and dive over the fight to the carry and 1 v 1 then and destroy them- if your qick and they have both and ADC and an APC murder the APC first usualy they bigger burst damage but less sistain ablilitys so if your fast kill the APC then go for the ADC (even a well fed ADC will have trouble 1 v 1ing you). this route is the opption i would advise if your pure damage)