League of Legends Champion Aatrox Aatrox is in the a tier of champions

Aatrox

Fighter Tank
Aatrox is a fighter Role fighter
Difficulty Average
Power Spike Early-Game
Deathbringer Stance ability p
The Darkin Blade ability q
Infernal Chains ability w
Umbral Dash ability e
World Ender ability r
Stats Build Counters
Runes
Synergies
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Aatrox Build

based on 86,201 matches
Win Rate
50.6 %
Pick Rate
10.2 %
Ban Rate
15.5 %

How We Come Up with Our Aatrox Builds

We process over 1 Million League of Legends games every day to bring you the most accurate Aatrox build so you can destroy your enemies and improve you win rate. We've broken down our Aatrox builds by rank, position, and enemy team type, so you can find the most accurate set of Aatrox core items and runes for any situation.

Aatrox Build Summary

Aatrox is a an average top lane champion in League of Legends. His best rune sets are Precision Domination. Incorporating the specific runes shown below in your Aatrox build will provide you the additional bonuses to help him play well through the laning phase of the match and into the late game. Aatrox players should start by leveling up his q ability first.

Best Build for Aatrox

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Long SwordHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Caulfield's WarhammerIronspike Whip

Core Aatrox Items

~22 Mins
EclipseGuardian AngelDeath's DanceMercury's Treads

Optional Items

Ravenous HydraSerylda's GrudgeForce of NatureSerpent's Fang

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Aatrox to level up q
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Second ability for Aatrox to level up e
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Last skill for Aatrox to max out w

Runes

Precision Conqueror TriumphLegend: TenacityLast Stand
Domination Taste of BloodTreasure Hunter
Adaptive Adaptive MagicRes
Aatrox's passive ability p
Aatrox q ability q
Aatrox w ability w
Aatrox e ability e
Aatrox's ultimate ability r
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Aatrox Matchups Overview

Aatrox is Weak Against

Heimerdinger Heimerdinger 42.7% winrate Illaoi Illaoi 47% winrate Yorick Yorick 47.4% winrate Volibear Volibear 47.4% winrate

Aatrox is Strong Against

Gwen Gwen 56% winrate Kennen Kennen 55.5% winrate Rumble Rumble 55.4% winrate Gragas Gragas 55.1% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

Zyra Zyra + 53.2% 2482 Games Heimerdinger Heimerdinger + 55.5% 984 Games Ivern Ivern + 56% 409 Games Karthus Karthus + 57.2% 481 Games

More Gameplay Tips for Aatrox Players

Tips and Tricks

Try to build a few stacks in blood well before engaging to ensure you can revive if slain.

Use Massacre to activate your passive for quick reaction revives.

Get easy kills early game by using the high damage from Massacre for ultimates at level 6 and 11.

Use Blades of Torment to guarantee landing Dark Flight's knockup.

Additional Aatrox Build Insights

League of Legends Aatrox players could find him to be a confusing champion to build out properly. You'll find that his build is modified when he is fighting either diversified or homogenous team compositions, meaning you shouldn't take the same Aatrox build every single game of League of Legends

The best items to incorporate into your champ's build are: Eclipse, Guardian Angel, and Death's Dance. Those who included these pieces in their setups had a greater win rate than players who tried for other builds for Aatrox. Moreover, if you are playing a well-mixed enemy team arrangement, you should really consider grabbing him the Precision, and Domination runes. In recent matches, he won the greatest fraction of his games when built with these runes.

We came up with our Aatrox build guidance by analyzing 86,201 recently ranked LoL rounds with him in them. We only advise the highest winrate Aatrox builds that were built by ranked players enough times for us to advise them. With so many rounds in our data, we are very confident in our provided builds.