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Aatrox - How to be remembered as a hero (Top lane)

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Normal build
Full dps

Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Items

Start Choice 1

Start Choice 2

Start Choice 3

Early Game

Core

Late game

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Boots and Enchantment

End Game Build

Ability Order

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Introduction

Hi! I'm SeekerOfJustice from EU West server and I will show you the newest champion , The Darkin Blade. He is a melee dps champ, with good mobility, sustain, damage and lifesteal, he is indeed a good jungler. He's based on his AA, so his build is a mixture of attack damage, attack speed and lifesteal, with some health for more survivability.
(English isn't my first language so excuse any grammatical errors i made)

Lore

Aatrox is a legendary warrior, one of only five that remain of an ancient race known as the Darkin. He wields his massive blade with grace and poise, slicing through legions in a style that is hypnotic to behold. With each foe felled, Aatrox's seemingly living blade drinks in their blood, empowering 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.

"Some fight for honor, some fight for glory. It matters only that you fight."
―Aatrox

Pros/Cons

+ Insane damage and life steal
+ Passive like a
+ Good escape with
+ No waste mana with

- Weak against hard CC
- Low base defensive stats
- You must know when to toggle off/on /

Aatrox weakness

Ability sequence

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

Innate Passive: Whenever Aatrox uses an ability that costs health, he stores 100% of the health cost into his Blood Well. The maximum amount of health the Blood Well can store is equal to 30 + (45 x level). If Aatrox has not dealt or received damage in the last 5 seconds, his Blood Well will deplete at a rate of 2% per second.
Upon taking fatal damage, Blood Well activates and places Aatrox in stasis for 3 seconds. Over the stasis duration the Blood Well is emptied and Aatrox restores health equal to its contents plus 10.5 + (15.75 x level). Blood Well's activation has a static cooldown and is unaffected by cooldown reduction.
Also, Aatrox passively increases his attack speed by 1% for every 2% in the Blood Well.

-Well, this passive is like a , but in addition give a lot of attack speed. Must be full charged at death, so that earnings the max health as possible, to charge quickly, poke with on the enemy champion, regain healt with

Active: Aatrox takes flight and slams down at a targeted location, dealing physical damage in a large area. Enemies in the center of the blast are also knocked up for 1 second.

-This is 's initiation skill, use to start a fight or go back in bad situation. The knock time of doesn't increase like slowing time of , that why is better upgrade yhis skill for last.

Passive: TOGGLE OFF: Aatrox heals himself on every third attack. If Aatrox is below 50% health he will heal for three times as much.
TOGGLE ON: Aatrox deals bonus physical damage on every third attack at the cost of health.

-The skill about who is based , for farm using , excels as a duelist, able to switch to for heavy burst damage when trading with his lane opponent. If you can kill the enemy champion steal life on as fast as possible.

Active: Aatrox unleashes and sends forward the power of his blade, dealing magic damage to enemies in a line and slowing them by 40% for a few seconds.

-Very good to chase an enemy champion or run away from him, this is the second must be upgrade.

Final Active: Aatrox draws in the blood of his foes, dealing magic damage to nearby enemy champions.
For the next 12 seconds, Aatrox gains bonus attack speed and 175 bonus attack range (325 total range). His attacks are still considered melee.

-This Skill is very usefull, conbined with and do a lot of AoE damage in teamfight, the extra attack speed is very good for recharge your life quickly.

Aatrox's skills

1vs1

-You start the battle

-Begins the battle with , must be on to do de max damage as possible (before the battle, recharge lost the health with ). When the enemy is knock up active and after burn his health with some AAs, he try to run away? + (if you haven't ignite use or chase him with ). If the enemy is another or a champion with lot of lifesteal like use ignite before.

-He start the battle

-Depending on the enemy, but anyone both, toggle on , active :

He is winning or his jungler is coming? Blades of Torment+ Dark Flight+ Flash or Ghost or Exhaust back to your tower, Bye!
You are winning or your jungler is coming? Blades of Torment+ Dark Flight+ Flash or Ghost or Exhaust to chase+ Ignite, Bye!

Team fights

’s mobility gives him an innate ability to pressure enemy carries in team fights. grants plenty of sustain as he tangos with enemy initiators and tanks. When he sees an opportunity to reach an enemy carry, closes the gap and allows the punishment to begin. When Aatrox is in deep, the area of effect burst and extra range from , and slow on prevent high-value targets from escaping. All the while the consistent healing from and resurrection effect from keep him alive long enough to cut through enemy squishies.

If ’s team is on the defensive, a well-aimed can slow multiple enemies and open a window for retreating allies to slip away. Alternately, he can kite enemies with , and create an opportunity for the remainder of his team to turn and counter-initiate. If you are focused, ’s sustain and the keep him in the fight, giving his teammates an opportunity to cut through foes as he resurrects and delivers the killing blow.

Masteries

Runes

Precision

Fleet Footwork

Phase Rush

Greater Seal of Armor+ Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist: Increase base stats, against a possible Ad or AP enemy champion
Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage+ greater mark of armor penetration: As usual, doubts remain about the runes, i think this is the best mixture of armor penetration and attack damage for Aatrox, can switch in greater quintessence of armor penetration+ Greater Mark of Attack Damage but never do AD marks + AD quints or ArPen marks + ArPen quints

Items

Core

Well ,if i took with Start Choice 1, after is better take as item with Tenacity or a against possibility enemies's CC spells, but usually the best boots for are the , so to have a wide choice for the items after core

The essential item for , give all he need: attack speed, attack damage and lifesteal, more better then at early phase, because don't need snowballing

CdR for aren't very useful (don't need mana, but "W" has already 0,5 sec of cooldown, not bad for other spells), but some health and more attack damage of a

Tons of AoE damage, very good item for , Give a lot of Damage lifesteal and in addition some health regeneration (ANNOTATION: works also with !!!

Offensive items

:It can be buy as second or last item, because gain much AD and lifesteal. But at early game a Blade of the Ruined King is more better.
: I prefer teke Black Cleaver because get more damage and some health, but can be buy together to increase a lot the ArPen, therefore also increase the health
gain from lifesteal (can replace Black Cleaver against an enemy team with lot of armor).
: I recommend this item for Aatrox, some critical chance and damage can be very useful, because doubles (+50% with IE) the AAs's lifesteal (can replace Bloodthirster).
: a mixture of attack damage, armor penetration, cooldown reduction and critical strike chance, in additional an active effect that icreases for few second movement and attack speed, good to chase enemies (can replace Bloodthirster).
: attack speed and damage, cooldown reduction and movement speed passive give tenacity against CC spells (so is very good for Aatrox, good replace instead of Bloodthirster).
: like Maw of Malmortius give attack damage an magic resistance, but the active effect remove all debuffs like Cleanse, good items for Aatrox against ALL CC (airbone and knock back aren't included, they are heaviest CC in the game, can replace Bloodthirster against a enemy team with lot of CC).

Defensive items

: much bonus healt and some attack damage, plus your basic attack slow the enemy, I reccomend this item for Aatrox because is very good to chase an enemy.
: unlike the Frozen Mallet it don't give attack damage, but it is the item with more HP in the game and the passive increases the health regeneration for more survivability (can replace Frozen Mallet).
: give a lot of armor and health, passive is very good to run away or annoy enemies in teamfight (can replace Frozen Mallet against heavy AD enemy team)
:I recommend this item for Aatrox, especially if the enemy team is composed mainly of AP champion, because give a lot of magic resistance an some health, also increase the total of lifesteal, healing effect and health regeneration by 20% (very good with Ravenous Hydra, can replace Frozen Mallet against heavy AP enemy team).

Wards

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- sight ward saves you from enemy ganks, see the blue circles, where you can put your wards.

warding

Summoner Spells

To take kills and to do some tricks or escape in bad situations, can be replaced with , because you already have for ista-escape. (combined with or )

Very good at begin for 1vs1 and if the enemy champion try to run away (combined with or )

To chase an enemy of run away quickly, i don't think is the best pick for (combined with )

is great for first blood or securing a kill (combined with all)

Terms and uses of the game

In game

GG: good game! / BG: bad game!
GJ: good job!
WP: well play!
GL & HF: good luck and have fun!!!
OMG: Oh my God :O
STFU: Erhm... keep quiet...
SS: Missing, write it when an enemy go away from your lane
Re: Returned, write it when the missing enemy return

Skills, Abilities, Stats and Other:

AP: Ability Power
AD: Attack Damage
MR: Magic Resistance
Ar: Armor
MP: Magic Penetration
ArPen: Armor Penetration
CdR: Cooldown Reduction
DpS: Damage x second
Aoe: Area Of Effect
AA: Auto attack, normal attack (right click)
CC: Crowd Control is divide into:
-Hard CC like Stun, Silence or Airbone (An abilities like is included in Hard CC)
-Soft CC like Blind, Slow or Snare

Thanks

I say thank at:

jhoijhoi for the guide on how to make guides
my friend God of Doom, because he help to write this words
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