Talk:Aatrox/@comment-39175116-20190418024315/@comment-2179912-20190420153145

Aatrox (current or the one on the PBE) is not well-suited to face down mobile, powerful duelists that often live in the top lane. More often than not you want to simply drive your enemy out of lane and outfarm them, with your main goal being to transition into destroying the backline in mid and late game teamfights.

Aatox is quite poor at dealing with Skirmisher champions that are mobile and output enough damage to kill you in mere seconds (like Jax, Fiora, Yi), and he's also quite poor at killing tanks fast.

However he excels at being a massive disruption in scenarios where the enemies have to pay attention to a ton of threats (like a big teamfight), and therefore they can only try to kite you and run away- and if you manage to land a Q3 with enough AD and Rank 3 ulti active you can break 1000 damage if you hit the sweet spot- in other words, the squishy backline must either break formation or get oneshot.

Not many other Juggernauts function like this. Garen, Trundle and Urgot have higher and more reliable DPS but it doesn't come in bursts. Illaoi is capable of nuking the enemy team but she needs a perfect setup by landing her R first. Darius is not a huge damage threat in fights until he gets 5 stacks or an execute at which point he starts chaining kills. Nasus is the most similar to Aatrox in the sense that usually he gets kited but his lategame Q is something that no squishy can withstand, and his R is not a nuke but a giant steroid that amplifies both his Q DPS and his tankiness.

Aatrox with the new R changes will be a hybrid between Nasus and Darius. You wanna dive into the enemy backline at the correct moment and start demolishing them (like Nasus), but at the same time you also wanna land a dunk on a squishy because if you get one takedown you can start going ham and chaining kills more and more, like Darius.

TLDR: As Aatrox it's good that you can bully your lane, but don't worry if they sometimes get away. Aatrox is quite easy to avoid in 1v1s. The important part of his ultimate (revive and reset) will kick in when you're facing more than one enemy. In lane you can still pop it and go all out with the +movespeed, +healing and +AD, just don't play like you can't die during it anymore.

However if you really wanna dunk noobs in the early game, have you tried taking him mid? Lots of mid laners are squishy and immobile and can't just jump out of your W.