Talk:Aatrox/@comment-9984340-20150516060528/@comment-25688877-20150517080407

Aatrox can make full use of many item builds, but the question you have to answer is "Why did I die?" in the lane phase. Flash/TP Aatrox will have a lot less offensive power than most other laners, especially if they took Flash/Ignite. You can run a passive lane, where you focus on CS and brute force farm, by taking and healing off poke (Like a Nasus). Or you can run an aggressive lane if the enemy can't trade with you with E spam (then you build offensive, wait for your W Proc to ready, then Q in and hope to win).

Learn to master lane freezing manipulation tactics. If they hit you with an auto, it makes their minion wave push to your tower (because your minions switch targets to them, while their minions keep killing yours if you haven't auto'd back). Aatrox has massive sustain, but if you don't know how to manipulate and freeze waves (opening up the target for ganks and lessening the potential of getting ganked yourself), that sustain goes to waste.