Passive: Your passive is something very important you should play around. When you go in for trades, always try to use full potential of your passive (time it to reduce heals/shields). You should also play around the cooldown reduction mechanic (autoattack first before using abilities and use your Qs out of combat if possible).



Q: Always use it to poke the Enemy and NEVER use it on minions early game (unless it helps you freeze the wave, which is a bit more advanced). Late game you should go try to use your Q to CC the enemy team and leave them exposed to your team.



Q-Flash combo is something very important you should learn to do. You start your Q and while channeling it you flash in a certain direction. With good practice and execution it has pretty much no counterplay.



Also you should remember than your Q is your biggest source of damage so try to use it to full potential and don't use it mindlessly because you're leaving yourself heavily exposed.



W: This ability is decent in the laning phase (it has some dmg and CC), but it's strongest at late game. It's extremely strong tool to catch enemies off guard and secure easy kills if they don't manage to escape it.



E: This ability is a key part of your combos throughout the whole game. You can experiment some combos with it (such as Q-E-W E-W-Q). The passive is really strong as well. Although the heal is not heavily noticable, you heal A LOT over time.









Ultimate: A HUGE reason Aatrox is such a good pick in all elos is his Ultimate. It's really good because whenever you are about to die, you can just press it and get a free out-of-jail card to escape bad situations.





A very big mistake some Aatrox players do is that they don't use the Ultimate effectively in the late game. What you should do is use it as soon as the teamfight starts, charge into the Enemy team and tank all damage while heavily CCing and damaging them. Even if you are behind, you can still tank all Enemy abilities and still not die because of your Revive.

