Aatrox Base Statistics
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Price: 6300 / | |||||
Secondary Bar: Blood | |||||
Release Date:2013-06-13 | Last Changed:V8.3 | ||||
Secondary Attributes: Melee | |||||
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Background
One of the ancient darkin, Aatrox was once a peerless swordmaster who reveled in the bloody chaos of the battlefield. Trapped within his own blade by the magic of his foes, he waited out the millennia for a suitable host to wield him - this mortal warrior was corrupted and transformed by the living weapon, and Aatrox was reborn. Though tales of the darkin have now passed into legend, he remembers only too well the destruction of his race, and wreaks his vengeance one sword blow at a time.
Aatrox is a legendary warrior, one of only five that remain of an ancient race known as the Darkin. He wields his massive with grace and poise, slicing through legions in a style that is hypnotic to behold. With each foe felled, Aatrox's seemingly living drinks in their blood, him and fueling his brutal, elegant campaign of slaughter.
The earliest tale of Aatrox is as old as recorded history. It tells of a war between two great factions remembered only as the Protectorate and the Magelords. Over time, the Magelords won a series of crushing victories, leaving them on the brink of obliterating their sworn enemy forever. On the day of their final confrontation, the Protectorate army found themselves outnumbered, exhausted, and poorly equipped. They braced for inevitable defeat.
Just when all hope seemed lost, Aatrox appeared among the ranks of the Protectorate. With but a few words, he urged the soldiers to fight to the last before throwing himself into battle. His presence inspired the desperate warriors. At first, they could only watch in awe as this unknown hero cleaved through their enemies, his body and blade moving in unison as if one being. Soon, the warriors found themselves imbued with a potent thirst for battle. They followed Aatrox into the fray, each fighting with the furious strength of ten until they had won a most unlikely victory.
Aatrox vanished after that battle, but the Protectorate army's newfound fury did not. Their surprising triumph led to many more until they were able to finally return home victorious. Their countrymen hailed them as heroes, but though they had saved their entire civilization from destruction, darkness lingered in the mind of each warrior. Something within them had changed. Over time, their memories of battle faded, only to be replaced with a grim revelation: their acts of heroism were, in fact, brutal atrocities committed by their own hands.
Tales like these appear among the myths of many cultures. If they are all to be believed, Aatrox's presence has changed the course of some of the most important wars in history. Though these stories remember him as a savior in dark times, Aatrox's true legacy may be a world filled with conflict and strife.
Abilities
- Aatrox's resource bar colors red when Hellbent is active (light red when the revive is off cooldown, dark red when on cooldown)
- and 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 ( ) will remain active while Aatrox is reviving.
- Blood Well's healing component interacts with 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 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.
- 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 .
- 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 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 or , the effect will still apply, but the base damage will not.
- If Blood Thirst/Price is , 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.
- can be cast during the cast animation of Blades of Torment. If done so, the ability resolves after from the location Aatrox flashes to.
- Has a width of 150 decreasing as it converges on its max range.
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Movement
First Encounter
- First encounter with
Attacking
Using Massacre
Development & Media
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