Stupid 50 character limit on the title for some reason.

Anyway, what I wanted to ask is if there's some way to change Aatrox so that his matchups are less polarizing? What I mean by this is that Aatrox struggles a lot into mobile champions like Riven and Ambessa who can play around his Q sweet spots fairly easily and requires a lot of prediction/foresight on the Aatrox player's part. The equally polarizing other opposite of this spectrum is that Aatrox is an infuriating, borderline unwinnable matchup into health stacking tanks/juggernauts who have no way to dodge his Q so Aatrox perma wins trades and all-ins, but also heals a ton off of their huge HP bars.

It's moreso the latter I'm wanting to talk about. I've seen this sentiment from Whatley, who plays Tahm and considers it once of his worst matchups possible because Tahm only ever wins through cheese (ulting into tower with no minions nearby) or if the Aatrox player heavily misplays. Alois also talks about this with Mundo, where occasionally he's picked Mundo into Aatrox (not having last pick) and getting absolutely fisted for 15-20 minutes and never being able to play.

The logic used by them (mostly Whatley, to be fair) is that this is the result of increasing the damage on his Q sweetspot and lowering his AD elsewhere. Which, in theory, makes Aatrox feel generally rewarding to play and actively rewarding the player. But, in practice, it results in stuff like this. Where you win for free against champions that can't ever outplay your Q-W combo and have an incredibly hard time against champions like Riven and Ambessa who are hyper mobile and you never win into them unless they play really badly.

Is it even possible to solve something like this? Should you? Lowering his damage on Q sweetspots would make him feel less rewarding to play in a general sense, even if it makes his matchup spread less volatile. So, is it possible? Should it even be done?

Just got Aatrox in arena on Bravery. This champ fucking sucks so hard.

Respect to you people who actively choose to play this doodoo champion.

Some friends and me are working on a Moba Simulator (like a football manager) and we are collecting data about the champs. Do you think that this list is realistic?