Talk:Aatrox/@comment-KBKvothe-20130522025223/@comment-KBKvothe-20130522193443

You are right about the SotD being statistically worse than a standard ADC/crit build, but it's strength lies in usability for the champion. With a SotD a champion can still build defensive items, yet have access (for a limited time) full crit as though their build was that of an adc. Ths is important especially for melee champions who in an ordinary situation wouldn't be able to get away with building crit due to their range.

I'll try and confirm whether or not Aatrox's W contributes to critical hit damage once the servers are back up. There are only really three possible ways it could interact with crit; 1. W does not crit whatsoever and what I saw previously was a bug, 2. W crits with a basic auto-attack resulting in obscene damage, or 3. W is bugged in it's scaling taking a percent of the auto-attack damage instead of bonus AD resulting in a higher damage W proc on critical strike.