Aatrox·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Aatrox Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Conqueror as your keystone, followed by Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand in the primary tree, as well as Bone Plating and Revitalize in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Eclipse as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Sundered Sky. For your last 3 items, you should build Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance and finish with Spirit Visage. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 54.4% winrate over 26 240 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Bone Plating with Revitalize in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Black Cleaver as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Sundered Sky as a third item. You want to finish the build with Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance and Spear of Shojin. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 55.8% win rate across 2 547 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Aatrox Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Bone Plating with Revitalize as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Sundered Sky as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Black Cleaver as third item. The last 3 options are Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance and Spirit Visage. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 54.0% win rate over 1 824 matches played.

Situational Aatrox Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Aatrox build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.