Previous Champion Spotlight[]
Learn how to dominate top lane through damage-heavy exchanges and potent 
life steal in the 
Aatrox Champion Spotlight.
Aatrox's combination of 
mobility and 
survivability enables a hyper-aggressive playstyle, punctuated by brazen dives and daring escapes. He excels at relentlessly pushing lanes, relying on his Dark Flight and Blood Well to evade incoming ganks. In team fights, Aatrox's mobility takes on a more offensive bent, allowing him to dive past tanks onto valuable back line targets.
Learn how to 
Massacre your enemies with Aatrox in the Champion Spotlight, where we'll sample the Darkin Blade's tactics, masteries, and more.
Previous Abilities[]
Aatrox Base Statistics
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Price: 6300 /  975
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Secondary Bar: Blood
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| Release Date:2013-06-13 | Last Changed:V8.3 | ||||
Secondary Attributes: Melee
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- Aatrox's resource bar colors red when Hellbent is active (light red when the revive is off cooldown, dark red when on cooldown)
Chronoshift and 
Guardian Angel's passive will take precedence over Blood Well's revive.- Blood Well's
stasis causes Aatrox to become 
untargetable, which will reset turret aggro. - Tethers from abilities ( Soul Shackles) will remain active while Aatrox is reviving.
- Blood Well's healing component interacts with Spirit Visage's passive.
- Dark Flight possesses a considerable overhead for a dash ability, able to traverse many walls that are otherwise much wider than the indicator suggests is possible to vault.
- If Aatrox is sent airborne or forced into Blood Well's stasis during the initial flight time, Dark Flight will fail and will not cause him to dash.
- Other forms of crowd control applied while the animation is in progress will be suspended until the animation finishes.
- Dark Flight does not cancel other commands. Aatrox will immediately begin attacking after he lands.
- With smartcast on, Dark Flight will be cast immediately and at 650-range if the cursor is beyond that.
- Flash cannot be cast during Dark Flight.
- Dark Flight has a 0.6 second cast time. 0.3 second wind-up, and 0.3 second wind-down.
- The attack counter between Blood Thirst and Blood Price is shared, meaning that toggling the ability with one empowered attack prepared will immediately allow use of the empowered attack of the other.
- Toggling between Blood Thirst and Blood Price does not reset the basic attack timer. It will, however, cancel an empowered basic attack in its windup animation if it is toggled during that time.
- Toggled abilities do not count as ability activation for the purposes of effects such as Spellblade or Force Pulse.
- Aatrox's basic attack animation correlates with the amount of stacks for Blood Thirst/Price. The first basic attack animation (after leveling up Blood Thirst/Price or proccing an empowered basic attack) is Aatrox swinging his sword to the left, the second is to the right and the third basic attack animation (which will be affected by Blood Thirst/Price) is Aatrox stabbing the target.
- Blood Thirst/Price will not proc against turrets or wards.
- The triggering attack will apply other on-hit effects and can critically strike as normal.
- Unlike most other on-hit physical damage, Blood Price's bonus damage does not apply life steal; this is a special case. The triggering attack will still apply life steal.
- However, using Death's Dance would then heal Aatrox for 15% of the Blood Price's bonus damage.
- Blood Thirst/Price will miss if Aatrox is blinded.
- Critical strikes do not interact with the bonus damage of Blood Thirst/Blood Price.
- If Blood Thirst/Price is blocked or parried, the effect will still apply, but the base damage will not.
- If Blood Thirst/Price is dodged, the effect and base damage will apply as normal.
- Units may only be damaged by one projectile of Blades of Torment per cast.
- The ability fires two narrow skillshots, converging at a fixed range. Very small units (such as minions) can potentially avoid the damage and slow altogether if the blades are fired from a close enough range.
- Flash can be cast during the cast animation of Blades of Torment. If done so, the ability resolves after Flash from the location Aatrox flashes to.
- Has a width of 150 decreasing as it converges on its max range.
Previous Quotes[]
Champion Select[]
- Pick
- ▶️ "This battle will be my masterpiece."
- Ban
- ▶️ "Hesitation is death."
Original 
MechaMovement[]
- ▶️ ▶️ "Violence is elegance."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Pain is temporary, victory is forever!"
- ▶️ ▶️ "Peace is the greatest lie of all."
- ▶️ ▶️ "War reveals what is within us."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Surpass the frailty of your form."
- ▶️ ▶️ "They will greet you as heroes."
- ▶️ ▶️ "True warriors are born in blood!"
- ▶️ ▶️ "I am as timeless as war."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Let fear become fury!"
- ▶️ ▶️ "I know what lurks in the hearts of men."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Hesitation is death."
First Encounter[]
- First Encounter with Tryndamere
Taunt[]
- ▶️ ▶️ "Fight and be remembered as a hero, or die and be remembered as a coward."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Fight as a hero, or die as a coward."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Fight and be remembered, or die and be forgotten."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Die with fear in your heart, or win with blood on your hands."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Even those who have nothing can give their lives."
Joke[]
- ▶️ ▶️ "Nobody understands me! They called my work a hack job."
- ▶️ ▶️ "This is no mere massacre; this is my masterwork!"
Laugh[]
Attacking[]
Basic Attacking[]
Attacking[]
- ▶️ ▶️ "Cut the courage from them."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Every kill brings victory closer."
- ▶️ ▶️ "There will be no retreat."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Fight or be forgotten."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Honor will not save them."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Break and fall."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Teach them to fear us."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Now we turn the tide!"
- ▶️ ▶️ "Sow the seeds of strife."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Rage against the dying of the light."
Ability Casting[]
Using Massacre[]
Death[]
Previous Splash Art and Chromas[]
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_old.png "Aatrox Mecha (Obsidian) old.png (70 KB)")
_old.png "Aatrox Mecha (Pearl) old.png (75 KB)")
_old.png "Aatrox Mecha (Tanzanite) old.png (71 KB)")
See also[]
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