Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
The stats shown here emphasize some critical Senna against Aatrox matchup statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Senna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aatrox’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Senna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Aatrox. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Senna often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Aatrox. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Senna usually wins when trying to fight Aatrox, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Senna makes a good counter to Aatrox.
While Senna does have a higher winrate compared to Aatrox, when facing one another, Senna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Senna into Aatroxas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Senna has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Senna vs Aatrox matchups, Senna is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Senna is an above average counter for Aatrox. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Senna against Aatrox.
If you would like to truly master Senna in order to counter Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Senna often gets a lot less CS compared to Aatrox. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Senna versus Aatrox build include Eclipse, Muramana, and Rapid Firecannon. When Senna used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Aatrox than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Senna boasted an average win rate of 52.8% battling Aatrox with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Aatrox as Senna, Senna players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Cut Down, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Senna vs Aatrox matchups, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% winrate overall.
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