User blog comment:Doeniel/Aweful Game Design - The Ridiculous Failure Of The Aatrox Rework/@comment-7709681-20170311165952

As I understood, this was a provisional patching to keep him attractive enough to be played until his actual rework comes likely with the Divers patch, but with such balance changes already stated as pre-season updates and the provisional patching having such backlash makes is not worth the wait, but make you fear for Aatrox direction within the minds of the rework team.