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"The Silence of Annihilation" Aatrox Guide

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Very good guide man keep it up!

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Thank you for the support, Glad you liked the guide!

I try to keep it as up to date as I can so people can enjoy a bit of Aatrox now and then.

How to nail aatrox's Entire Q combo, I keep finding trouble with it as the enemy always dodges the next two Q's and when I use the ultimate, I can't nail any of them either due to being close ranged and his Q needs a certain distance to be used so i only end up using my AA's in his ultimate

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Best way to hit his entire combo would be to start off with Q1 and try to be in a position to land after that, use Q2 + to guarantee the chains pull them back, and finally time Q3 with the pull of the W.

You can activate at any point during this but right before would be best to guarantee Q1 and Q2 because of the movement speed burst, and to maximize survivability and damage.
That would be the ideal trade for . However sometimes if you are being chased its better to use your with Q1 and then the rest of the combo.

Its also worth mentioning that if chasing someone down you can wait for them to run into Q1 range if they are too close, and then use and to close the gap, you can also weave in with any part of for a unexpected burst of damage.

Hope this information helps, and good luck on the rift!

Hello and thanks for the guide. I just wanted to point out that, in my opinion, bone plating absolutely sucks against ranged champions. In that case, specially against teemo, isn't second wind miles better? VS ranged means they can hit you easily, so just popping your bone plating really isn't much trouble, then it enters a long cooldown. Second wind, on the other hand, is always available, and just like doran's shield, it continuously procs on teemo's poison. Teemo is my most played champion and I really like when the oponent has bone plating. On the other hand, people who get dorans shield + second wind + spectre's cowl become basically immune to my damage lol. They just have to back off for a little bit and everything gets healed back up quickly. I just created this account to post this so I don't know how to link the runes/items in the text, sorry bout that.

PS* I'd only recommend spectre's cowl rush on aatrox vs teemo in matches where you are just plain worse than the teemo and is having trouble, since IMO aatrox absolutly destroys this match up so the regular cdr rush would be better.

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Hey, sorry for the late reply but here goes.

About the comment, yes is not very efficent VS ranged champions and as you pointed out would be much better in those scenarios since ranged champions have more harass potential, but the rune set with is for matchups in which struggles with early game. Such as , , even and who rely on their first burst of damage to keep the trade in their favor.

I personally have not had problems with or other ranged champions on top due to 's range and ability to close the gap and I usually run the first rune set with more healing than survivability. As you pointed out is a great item to get early VS to keeps trades in your favor even if you fall a bit behind and is a core item on due to its healing amplification so most likely you will be building it anyway.

Hope this helps, and good luck on the rift!

Pretty good guide overall, could be nice to get some champion specific scenarios, im not quite sure about going instead of unless you are really fighting against someone with lots of armor in which aatrox is kind of weak to as all his healing comes from his damage dealt but still I think its more convenient going for for the sustain.

As for its really your choice as I always like going for attack speed does favor a lot and its very beneficial in the early game, can get you those close kills where you need your last AA to proc your passive.

But overall nice job on the guide!

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Hey, thanks for the feedback!

About champions specific scenarios, I try to get as much information about the core way to beat them in the Threats tab, while keeping it short, I could try when time allows it to dedicate a guide chapter which would give more freedom to cover most of the matchups (i.e Darius, Renekton, Sett, Mordekaiser etc.)

And the vs it really comes down to preference and matchup. If I know im going to get harassed back to base or going againts a ranged laner its time for , but if its a melee laner I mostly go , partly due to how the old gave a burst of AD and synergised really well with the bonus armor penetration and still find it viable even though a bit outclassed, guess I am a bit stubborn.

I've tried going instead of and from my experience will indeed help you out a lot more in the laning phase in most matchups (expect agaisnt champions like ), and will get you snowballing earlier. giving up Alacrity is the main reason I take the attack speed rune to offset the malus of not having attack speed early game, and find them both really beneficial in different parts of the game, but mostly stick to due to the nature of how hard CC shuts down really hard and would like to keep that to a minimum. Both are great for different reason.

Best of luck in your future Aatrox endeavours! :)

Oh and by the way it should be worth mentioning that doesnt heal on shields for some reason

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Did some digging on this, apparently there was a bug with and his making 's healing not apply properly because of that,

As of patch 10.11 this bug has been fixed but other barrier-like abilities will most likely still prevent 's healing due to his healing being applied post-mitigation and not pre-mitigation.

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