Talk:Aatrox/@comment-5889036-20130701073640/@comment-3466579-20130701091455

In my opinion, Aatrox has too many strong synergies. Besides improving his dps, attack speed works really well with his Blood Thirst / Price, and Aatrox gains bonus AS from both his passive and ultimate.

The Blade of the Ruined King seems being built for this champion, as it gives BOTH Attack Speed and Life Steal, plus all the other stats and effects that are definitely useful to Aatrox.

Not only, as we have seen, he has a lot of synergies to boost his sustain (and damage, obviously) but he's been given a passive that revives him: Aatrox is difficult to kill, plus you may have to do it twice!

His early game is quite poor, from my experience facing him as a top laner, but in the late game he becomes, more often than not, borderline overpowered thanks to his insane sustain + reviving passive.