Full Crit Aatrox Build
Full Crit Aatrox build with runes and items. Full Crit Aatrox guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Full Crit Aatrox build in League of Legends Patch 14.23!
Updated: 2024-11-13 ()
TLDR
Starting items
Quick Skill Order
E
Q
W
Final items
Quick Runes
Summoner spells
Full Crit Aatrox Runes
Domination
Precision
Passive
How it works
General
- You go Full Crit.
- You go in and play around Hail of Blades to burst enemies.
- You back away and wait for Hail of Blades. Repeat.
- This build works best if enemy team has squishy champions. If you are against a lot off-tanks/bruisers, this might not be best build. You can make it work, however, by rushing Lord Dominik's Regards.
How to play
General
- This build shines with 100% crit. You will instakill squishes. Until that, it might be challenging to 100-0 anyone. Look for opportunities to go in and score kills. Also focus on farming minions if possible (to scale faster).
- Wait for your moment to go for a kill. You have a big burst thanks to Full Crit and Hail of Blades, but you are squishy. And outside of Hail of Blades procs (especially early game) you don't have much damage.
- Snowball / Mark is an essential cooldown for this build. Do not waste it or even wait to hit the enemy at point-blank range to ensure hit (so you follow them, if they Flash).
- Enemy team might not check your items right away, you could use that for your advantage to nuke unsuspected enemy.
- After they checked your items and noticed that you have damage and are squishy, they are going to target you in fights. Be careful, after early game probably you need to modify your playstyle and stay back and wait for a good moment to join fights.
- If they have tons of CC, get Mercury's Treads, Edge of Night or even Mercurial Scimitar to counter that.
- If you are not doing well, or an enemy team is slightly ahead, you can adapt and buy tank items. Worst case scenario, you can sell everything late game and 'respec' into full tank.
Aatrox Full Crit specific
- Full Crit Aatrox is a very different take on regular Aatrox Bruiser build. Instead of focusing on maxing Q, going AD / Lethality and casting abilities, you are gonna be relying on auto attacks and Crits, auto attack resets from E and Hail of Blades.
Tips and Tricks
General
- Q + Flash combos: You can use Flash during any time of Q animations. You can even combine that with Umbral Dash (E). You can Flash and E in any direction, making very spectacular and flashy plays.
- You can use Umbral Dash (E) for short dash, this way animation lasts shorter, and you can get crucial milliseconds to auto attack faster (can be deciding a factor in 1v1).
- You can reset your auto attack timer with Umbral Dash (E). It might be crucial in duels, or when pushing enemy turrets.
Riot
- Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
- Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
- Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Skill Order
- The Darkin BladeQ
- Infernal ChainsW
- Umbral DashE
- World EnderR
Items
Starting items
Good first items
Boots
Get it post 15 lvl
Good items
Situational items
Situational vs. tanks
Situational vs. healing
Situational vs. shields
Good MR/Armor items
If you need to go tanky
For the last fight
Example final build