Talk:Aatrox/@comment-MarKassiN-20130528221206/@comment-Akumaryukendan-20130529163019

AD carry builds on melee champs are contingent on early and continued success. You could use this build for Xin Zhao or J4 if you happen to be dunking your opponents, it doesn't make it good to build these on them all the time or even most of the time.

GA is typically a good item on melee champs who build squishy (like Riven or Jax) BUT Aatrox (man, I hate typing this guy's goofy name) already gets a GA passive. So two are better, right? Well... if Aatrox is dying enough that he needs two rebirth passives in a team fight, he's probably not dealing the damage he needs to do in order to fulfill his role. I don't see this as a bad item, just not as good as it is on other melee carry-ish champs.

I'd recommend you fit in Merc Scimitar and some form of armor penetration like Cleaver or Last whisper (Cleaver may edge out LW due to greater AD, early Brutalizer, and HP). Scimitar is good because Aatrox's passive will be useless if they can just kite, CC and get the passive to pop before you can close the gap (a la fishing for Trynd ulti).

Hydra is a garbage item, especially when you have BT's *AND* BorK's lifesteal *AND* Aatrox's passive W.

Zephyr isn't a bad item BUT CC reduction isn't as useful on squishy champs as it is on tankier champs. Reducing a 2 second stun to 1.2 seconds isn't going to mean much to them, they're still going to get exploded in that time; this is where Scimitar comes in handy because you can cleanse imidiately and either close the gap or gtfo.

Not having crit chance. is going to hurt any AD carry's late game, this allows them to chunk enemy health far quicker and scales with everything you build.