User blog comment:Doeniel/Aweful Game Design - The Ridiculous Failure Of The Aatrox Rework/@comment-25281296-20170311113730

Earlier at least he was playable - with some and  he could be at least a threat. Now they just nerfed his passive greatly and his synergy with AP. Nothing keeps me to play him now, which is sad, as before he could at least do some potent skirmishing.

Also, probably I am not the only one, who thinks that his and  are wasting his potential. Personally, I think that his E and R could be replaced with SMITE's Guan Yu's 1st and 4th skill respectively (the former would also be in the form of old ).