Talk:Aatrox/@comment-26128186-20170306071319

Not sure how relevant this is because the upcoming aatrox changes might just be temporary before a big rework, but if they are gonna make blood price not have a cost anymore, shouldn't they change the name to something else? It might seem like nitpicking, but coherency between ability names and what the abilities do should at least be kept.

The best possible names I could think of were "blood ravage" and "blood-starved". For "blood ravage", I was thinking that it could evoke a sense of violence and savagery in war, which aligns well with aatrox's character and the extra aa damage that the ability provides. For "blood-starved", I was referring to the fact that the blade isn't being sated with the blood of others (blood thirst provides that instead), nor is it being sated with aatrox's own blood since the health cost is removed. And so, the blade is left in a hungering state that makes it more deadly, which would explain the increased aa dmg it gives. I was thinking about how certain, carnivorous animals are actually more dangerous to deal with if they are starving, and so I drew the parallel with aatrox's living blade.

I might be thinking too deeply into this, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.