Talk:Aatrox/@comment-Unevent-20130614110923/@comment-Unevent-20130619055257

I'm not an idiot and I've dueled ADCs before. What ADCs don't tend to have is a relatively low-CD passive that makes them virtually immune to burst along with high innate sustain scaling with the AD they stack that makes them DPS-resistant and most ADCs suck at chasing without CC from another teammate to help them out. Aatrox has all of these with the drawback being that yes, he's melee. Which makes me think that hard CC along with an imperative to focus him is his only real counter, seeing as it's fairly hard to stop him being constantly in your face if he wants to be. But in a duel? Even Jax struggles against that much sustain. With just a RH and max rank W he heals 175 damage every third hit before lifesteal after he's below 50% health, and he can quite easily get close to max AS with his passive and ult. That's ~1000 health every ten seconds BEFORE lifesteal with ONE item, assuming you can keep him below 50% health when he has that much sustain. Or in other words, he can stand in a Karthus's max rank Defile and sustain through it.