Talk:Aatrox/@comment-24835178-20141018125403/@comment-3546228-20141019014448

The is a pretty big power spike for Aatrox just because of how he works. The active is golden on him because you can combo it right after you hit someone with the Q and also having more wave clear on him means he's even faster of a splitpusher.

So yeah, Hydra is super strong on him but keep in mind that there are certain tradeoffs. If you go Hydra then you can't go for a hard attack speed item, because if you do then you will be too squishy to teamfight and you will be forced to split push all game and look for duels.

Going as a first item then going  has been my strategy for the longest time - you get the attack speed, the lifesteal and the AoE clearing and you are still able to both duel and manage to get a tank item for lategame teamfights.