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Aatrox Baron Lane Wild Rift Guide
Aatrox Baron lane counters include Fiora, Jax, and Irelia. See the best build, runes, matchups, and game plan for Wild Rift Patch 7.3.
How to play
- Hit with the edge of your blade Your 1st ability has three swings. Hit with the outer edge of the first two, then move closer to hit the center of the third.
- Trade when your healing is ready When your passive is ready, your next basic attack deals extra damage and heals you. Use it in a short trade, then back away.
- Use your ultimate before committing Fight where you can keep hitting enemies and healing, rather than chasing someone you cannot reach.
Strengths
- Big AoE damage with built-in knockups: his sweeps hit whole teams, and a clean combo wins almost any lane trade.
- Great sustain in long fights, especially with World Ender (Ult) up; the longer a fight runs, the more it favors him.
- Strong into immobile enemies and HP stackers, who cannot step out of his sweet spots and feed his max-health passive damage.
Weaknesses
- Can be locked down and bursted: once his dash is spent, a crowd control chain kills him before his healing matters.
- Grievous Wounds reduces the healing that keeps him in extended lane trades and teamfights.
- Everything is a skillshot: miss the sweet spots and he loses the trade he started.
Build Snapshot
Rune Setup
Summoner Spells
Aatrox Baron Lane Counters
Who counters Aatrox Baron Lane in Wild Rift (WR)? These champions beat Aatrox in the Baron lane matchup, with how each one wins. Learn to play around them or ban them in ranked.
- Fiora: Fiora heavily punishes a predictable sweet spot: a riposted swing leaves you stunned, slowed and chunked. Vary your Q (1st) timing and spacing so she cannot reserve Riposte (2nd), since she out-duels you once she is even on items.
- Jax: Counter Strike (3rd) dodges your autos and blunts your sweeps, his stun starts trades on his terms, and he out-scales you hard in the 1v1.
- Irelia: Bladesurge (1st) resets let Irelia cross Aatrox's Darkin Blade (1st) sweet spots instead of standing at their edges, and a fully stacked Ionian Fervor (Passive) wins the sustained auto-attack fight. Do not spend Umbral Dash (3rd) on the first swing: hold it to realign a later sweet spot after her dash, and back off while her passive is stacked on the wave.
- Kennen: Constant poke and his stun chain ruin your combo timing, and you can only walk up when his energy is low or his stun mark is not loaded.
- Vayne: She kites you and slips out of your Q (1st) wind-ups with ease, then shreds you with percent-health true damage that neither armor nor a bigger health bar blunts.
Champions Aatrox Is Strong Against
Aatrox's best matchups in Wild Rift. Aatrox holds an edge against these picks in the Baron lane role, so look to press the advantage and contest objectives.
- Shen: Shen's block stops your empowered auto but does nothing against the Q (1st) sweeps that carry most of your damage, so you win the trades.
- Sion: Sion is big and slow, so your sweet spots land freely, your passive chunks his huge health pool, and a knockup interrupts his charging Q (1st).
- Dr. Mundo: Deathbringer Stance (Passive) and Aatrox's sweet-spot knockups punish the maximum health Mundo stacks, while World Ender (Ult) can sustain through the return damage. Open with the first Darkin Blade (1st) edge to consume Goes Where He Pleases (Passive), then use Infernal Chains (2nd) and the later sweet spots after Mundo's crowd-control immunity is down.
- Teemo: His blind turns off your empowered attack but not your Q (1st) sweeps, which carry most of your damage, and he is too squishy to survive your all-in once World Ender (Ult) is up.
Early Game
Levels 1 to 3 are about short, sharp trades. Walk up with your passive attack ready, start with Q1 (1st) at max range so the tip lands, and weave the empowered auto between casts since it both damages and heals. The full combo is Q1 (1st) into W (2nd), Q2 (1st), E (3rd), then Q3 (1st) with an auto at the end. You can also use E (3rd) in the middle of a Q (1st) to slide a sweet spot onto a dodging enemy. Level 5 is your first real all-in window: World Ender (Ult) plus Ignite kills most Baron laners who are not near full health. In ranged matchups, save E (3rd) to dodge their key spell instead of using it to attack.
Mid Game
Your first core item flips close trades into wins, and that is your cue to play the map. Crash the wave, walk to river, and set up Rift Herald, since few champions contest it as well as Aatrox with World Ender (Ult). In skirmishes, remember that takedowns extend your ult: commit where a kill is likely, then carry the extension into the next target. Your W (2nd) pull punishes anyone who face-checks a river brush, so play around vision and use it to threaten the enemy jungler's path through river.
Late Game
Late game Aatrox is a teamfighter, not a side laner. He falls off in pure 1v1s against scaled duelists, so ignore advice that tells you to split push. Group with your team, look for flanks, and save W (2nd) for a carry instead of wasting the pull on a tank. Track enemy anti-heal: once their carry buys it, you are much less tanky in practice and need to fight around their cooldowns instead of face-tanking. Use World Ender (Ult) as the fight commits, not before, so the bonus damage and healing cover the real fight.
Teamfights
Activate World Ender (Ult) right as the fight starts, then position so your Q (1st) sweeps hit two or three enemies, since every target hit means more healing. Use E (3rd), or even Flash mid-cast, to drag sweet spots onto the enemy carry: the knockups set up your team's follow-up and the bonus damage is what actually kills. If their front line blocks your path, do not force it. Sweep the tanks, heal off them, and let your passive chip at their big health pools. One takedown extends your ult, and an extended World Ender (Ult) Aatrox usually decides the rest of the fight.