League of Legends Wiki: Aatrox Champion History and Abilities
Aatrox's evolution in League of Legends spans multiple iterations, with significant changes to his abilities and playstyle over time.
Previous Champion Spotlight featured Aatrox as a dominant top laner, focusing on aggressive exchanges and life steal mechanics. His playstyle centered around pushing lanes aggressively while using Dark Flight and Blood Well for escape tactics.
Original Abilities:
Blood Well (Passive)
- Filled through abilities
- Granted Hellbent status when full
- Provided attack speed bonus and revival mechanism
- Healed 30% max health upon revival
Dark Flight
- Dash ability with knockup
- Filled 20% of Blood Well
- Could traverse walls
- 0.6-second cast time
Blood Thirst/Blood Price
- Toggle ability affecting every third hit
- Blood Thirst: Provided healing
- Blood Price: Dealt bonus damage
- Shared attack counter between toggles
Blades of Torment
- Dual converging energy waves
- Applied physical damage and slow
- Filled 20% of Blood Well
- 2-second slow duration
Massacre (Ultimate)
- Dealt magic damage to nearby champions
- Granted bonus attack speed and range
- 12-second duration
- Filled Blood Well for each champion hit
Demonic warrior with massive red sword
Winged warrior with glowing golden sword
Mecha Aatrox skin
Sea Hunter Aatrox from League
Armored warrior with curved dark sword