Talk:Aatrox/@comment-28642928-20180711081700/@comment-7709681-20180712165653

You didn't read right, he isn't strong, he's abusable. The kit is inherently weak because of the concentric design, existing to make Q work out, so if he doesn't land Qs or is on CD he's easily killable, but otherwise those over-inflated Q numbers are too high and as such if manages to land on targets with the sweet spot they're pretty much dead. Same applies to Kaisa, if you get rid of her over-inflated damage values she's nothing, but are so high that is abusable enough to become 1st pick, specially after the itemization changes to crits.

He's only strong early during laning-phase, zone him and deny him farm, because if he doesn't have his core items when laning-phase ends, he doesn't have a presence in combat.

Also, if you're dealing with an Aatrox during his ultimate, you're dealing with him wrongly. Threat him like a Tryndamere, avoiding combat with him, or kiting him until the effect wears off, or have access to enough burst to get rid of the revive quickly, because ending the revive also gets rid of the AD buff.

And again, as stated before, having his entire damage budget on a single ability is bad, but for how the kit is structured cannot go elsewhere, specially because of R that now is an on-demand Revive, which is by itself enough power regardless of how is executed design-wise simply because is gained with the press of a button.