User blog comment:Krauserlols/Aatrox doesnt live up for his Legend/@comment-5194571-20130517134243

I didn't read much, but I do want to say you are slightly mistaken on the concept. As a philosophy student, I can see you missed something out about morals.

The whole idea of "you must fight" not caring about what you fight for is based on the idea that action precedes meaning. Suppose 20 people are in a bank and the bank gets robbed. The current moral/just thing to do is sit around, scared, do nothing and wait for the authorities to save you. This is a moral framework that promotes weakness, promotes, passiveness, and is above all, concerned with keeping the hands of the individual clean.

If one of those 20 people in the bank were to fight back, however, and make an escape, that is different. They did something. Instead of being passive, they decided "I'm not taking this crap" and decided to fight back. To the moral theory I am saying you missed, this course of action is the admirable one. Basically, it's about the strength of the will and how it's better to act and have your own will than to be passive for the sake of keeping up appearences and being free of guilt.

How does this relate to LoL? Making plays. You have two teams, both teams have a Twisted Fate. (I chose TF because of his play style.) The blue side TF ganks other lanes every time his ult is up, while red side stays in lane and farms, using his ult to get back to lane after buying. Who is more likely to win? Playmaker TF of safe farm TF? Playmaker. That's why he's so scary at high skill levels of play.

How does this relate to Aatrox? Judging by his kit, there are two ways to play him. There's the safe farm passive way where you sustain with the heal on W, or the aggresive way where you try to kill people instead. Which is more likely to win? The one where you make plays and kill people. Tying this in with the moral theory above and his lore, it is actually very fitting.

"It only matters that you fight". Perfectly sensible to me, a great concept that, with deeper thought, can actually promote a lot of interesting gameplay.