Minion damage modifier now continues scaling past level 18.
Abilities
PassiveDeathbringer Stance
Periodically, Aatrox's next basic attack deals bonus magic damage and heals him, based on the target's max health.
QThe Darkin Blade14/12/10/8/6s
Aatrox slams his greatsword down, dealing physical damage. He can swing three times, each with a different area of effect.
WInfernal Chains20/18/16/14/12s
Aatrox smashes the ground, dealing damage to the first enemy hit. Champions and large monsters have to leave the impact area quickly or they will be dragged to the center and take the damage again.
EUmbral Dash9/8/7/6/5s
Passively, Aatrox heals when damaging enemy champions. On activation, he dashes in a direction.
RWorld Ender120/100/80s
Aatrox unleashes his demonic form, fearing nearby enemy minions and gaining attack damage, increased healing, and Move Speed. If he gets a takedown, this effect is extended.
Patch history
26.12 · Jun 10, 2026
The Darkin Blade
Sweetspot bonus damage increased to 75% from 70%.
26.2 · Jan 22, 2026
Deathbringer Stance
Health ratio increased to 4% to 10% of target's maximum health from 4% to 8%.
The Darkin Blade
Bonus monster damage increased to 25 from 15.
25.24 · Dec 3, 2025
The Darkin Blade
Bonus monster damage reduced to 15 from 40.
25.23 · Nov 19, 2025
Deathbringer Stance
Monster damage cap increased to 100 to 320 from 100 at all levels.
The Darkin Blade
New Effect: Now deals 40 bonus physical damage to monsters, affected by the subsequent cast and Sweetspot damage modifiers.
25.12 · Jun 11, 2025
Deathbringer Stance
Heal increased to 100% of post-mitigation damage from 80%.
Minion heal increased to 25% of post-mitigation damage from 20%.
Umbral Dash
Heal health ratio increased to 1.1% per 100 bonus health from 0.9%.
35 older patches
25.11 · May 29, 2025
Deathbringer Stance
Damage health ratio reduced to 4% to 8% of the target's maximum health from 4% to 12%.
The Darkin Blade
Sweetspot bonus damage increased to 70% from 60%.
First cast sweetspot base damage increased to 17 to 119 from 16 to 112.
Second cast sweetspot base damage increased to 21.25 to 148.75 from 20 to 140.
Third cast sweetspot base damage increased to 25.5 to 178.5 from 24 to 168.
Maximum base damage increased to 63.75 to 446.25
Base stats
Health650 +114/lvl
Attack Damage60 +5/lvl
Attack Speed0.651 +2.5/lvl
Armor38 +4.8/lvl
Magic Resist32 +2.05/lvl
Base Health Regen3 +0.5/lvl
Move Speed345
Range175
Melee · Resource: Blood Well
from
60 to 420
.
First cast sweetspot AD ratio increased to 102 to 153% AD from 96 to 144% AD.
Second cast sweetspot AD ratio increased to 127.5 to 191.25% AD from 120 to 180% AD.
Third cast sweetspot AD ratio increased to 153 to 229.5% AD from 144 to 216% AD.
Maximum AD ratio increased to 382.5 to 573.75% AD from 360 to 540% AD.
Infernal Chains
Damage type changed to physical from magic.
25.10 · May 14, 2025
Infernal Chains
Bug Fix: Now once again has the proper tooltip description for the debuff after a tooltip change to Aurora in patch 25.09 unintentionally affected it.
25.4
Infernal Chains
Bug Fix: Corrected tether visual.
14.23
Deathbringer Stance
Bug Fix: Attack can now trigger both this ability's damage and any and on-hit effects when the attack kills the target. Deathbringer Stance's damage is no longer discarded, previously causing Aatrox to lose the healing.
14.22
World Ender
Bonus attack damage reduced to 20 to 40% AD from 20 to 45% AD.
14.17
Umbral Dash
Bug Fix: Issued basic attacks no longer unintentionally cancel when dashing towards an enemy.
14.14
Deathbringer Stance
Bug Fix: Attack now triggers attack effects if damage originating from Deathbringer Stance would have killed the target.
The attack effects' damage now applies first/is prioritized, which may lead to losing the ability's healing.
14.12
Stats
Health regeneration growth reduced to 0.5 from 1.
Armor growth increased to 4.8 from 4.45.
Umbral Dash
Healing reduced to 16% at all ranks from 18 to 24%.
Removed: Healing is no longer increased to 20 to 36% during World Ender.
New Effect: Healing now scales with 0.9% per 100 bonus health.
World Ender
Healing amplification increased to 50 to 100% from 25 to 45%.
14.9
Infernal Chains
Bug Fix: The timing of the damage is no longer unsynced with the tether. Previously, the target would still sometimes be dealt damage after properly breaking the tether.
Umbral Dash
Bug Fix: No longer references to his long-deprecated ammo system.
14.4
Deathbringer Stance
Cooldown reduced to 22 to 10 seconds from 24 to 12.
Bug Fix: Empowered attack no longer reduces the cooldown by 2 seconds.
Infernal Chains
Bug Fix: Potentially fixed inconsistencies with the tether pulling a target when they leave the area at the last 0.25 seconds of the duration.
13.20
World Ender
Bug Fix: VFX for bonus movement speed no longer disappears prematurely when the buff refreshes upon takedown.
13.17
Deathbringer Stance
Damage type changed to magic from physical.
Infernal Chains
Damage type changed to magic from physical.
13.15
The Darkin Blade
First cast AD ratio reduced to 60 to 90% AD from 60 to 100% AD.
Second cast AD ratio reduced to 75 to 112.5% AD from 75 to 125% AD.
Third cast AD ratio reduced to 90 to 135% AD from 90 to 150% AD.
First cast sweetspot AD ratio reduced to 96 to 144% AD from 96 to 160% AD.
Second cast sweetspot AD ratio reduced to 120 to 180% AD from 120 to 200% AD.
Third cast sweetspot AD ratio reduced to 144 to 216% AD from 144 to 240% AD.
Maximum AD ratio reduced to 360 to 540% AD from 360 to 600% AD.
13.14
The Darkin Blade
First cast base damage reduced to 10 to 70 from 10 to 90.
Second cast base damage reduced to 12.5 to 87.5 from 12.5 to 112.5.
Third cast base damage reduced to 15 to 105 from 15 to 135.
First cast AD ratio increased to 60 to 100% AD from 60 to 80% AD.
Second cast AD ratio increased to 75 to 125% AD from 75 to 100% AD.
Third cast AD ratio increased to 90 to 150% AD from 90 to 120% AD.
First cast sweetspot base damage reduced to 16 to 112 from 16 to 144.
Second cast sweetspot base damage reduced to 20 to 140 from 20 to 180.
Third cast sweetspot base damage reduced to 24 to 168 from 24 to 216.
Maximum base damage reduced to 60 to 420 from 60 to 540.
First cast sweetspot AD ratio increased to 96 to 160% AD from 96 to 128% AD.
Second cast sweetspot AD ratio increased to 120 to 200% AD from 120 to 160% AD.
Third cast sweetspot AD ratio increased to 144 to 240% AD from 144 to 192% AD.
Maximum AD ratio increased to 360 to 600% AD from 360 to 480% AD.
Minion damage increased to 55% to 70% from 55% at all levels.
13.11
General
Bug Fix:Mecha Aatrox and Lunar Eclipse Aatrox no longer return to and freeze into their idle pose when their Recall animation was paused.
The Darkin Blade
Bug Fix: VFX of the third cast on some skins no longer render above impassable terrain.
13.9
Deathbringer Stance
Damage health ratio increased to 4% to 12% of target's maximum health from 4% to 10%.
World Ender
Bonus movement speed increased to 60 to 100% from 50 to 80%.
13.5
Infernal Chains
Slow increased to 25 to 35% from 25% at all ranks.
Cooldown reduced to 20 to 12 seconds from 20 to 14.
World Ender
Bonus attack damage increased to 20 to 45% AD from 20 to 40% AD.
13.1
Deathbringer Stance
Damage health ratio reduced to 4% to 10% of the target's maximum health from 5% to 12%.
Umbral Dash
Healing during World Ender reduced to 20 to 36% from 25 to 45%.
World Ender
Bonus movement speed reduced to 50 to 80% from 60 to 100%.
12.20
Deathbringer Stance
Heal reduced to 80% of post-mitigation damage from 100%.
12.14
Stats
Health growth increased to 114 from 104.
Umbral Dash
Healing reduced to 18 to 24% from 18 to 26%.
Healing during World Ender unchanged.
World Ender
Healing amplification reduced to 25 to 45% from 25 to 55%.
12.10
Stats
Base health increased to 650 from 580.
Health growth increased to 104 from 90.
Armor growth increased to 4.45 from 3.25.
Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
Umbral Dash
Healing reduced to 18 to 26% from 20 to 30%.
Healing during World Ender reduced to 25 to 45% from 26 to 50%.
World Ender
Healing amplification reduced to 25 to 55% from 30 to 60%.
12.7
General
Bug Fix: Voice lines now properly play when the conditions are met.
12.4
The Darkin Blade
Sweetspot bonus damage increased to 60% from 50%.
11.19
Infernal Chains
Cooldown reduced to 20 to 14 seconds from 26 to 14.
11.2
Umbral Dash
New Effect: Healing against champions is now increased to 26 to 50% during World Ender.
World Ender
Healing amplification reduced to 30 to 60% from 50 to 100%.
11.1
Stats
Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
10.20
World Ender
Healing amplification increased to 50 to 100% from 50 to 70%.
10.17
World Ender
Bonus attack damage increased to 20 to 40% AD from 20 to 30% AD.
10.15
World Ender
Bug Fix: Now properly fears and stops Zyra enraged Deadly Spines.
10.11
Deathbringer Stance
Bug Fix: Now properly heals when attacking an enemy Malphite with Granite Shield.
Umbral Dash
Bug Fix: Now properly heals when attacking an enemy Malphite with Granite Shield.
10.9
General
Taunt lines have been moved to his joke.
Three of his old ultimate's revive lines have been repurposed as his taunt.
World Ender
Undocumented: No longer cancels if Aatrox would take lethal damage but is saved because of Death's Dance damage storage or other effects. (before - [https://youtu.be/WWLCX9sAh1w] [https://youtu.be/373_7L8SHj4])
Undocumented: No longer cancels before entering resurrection.
9.19
The Darkin Blade
Damage against minions increased to 55% from 40% at all levels.
9.18
Deathbringer Stance
Healing against minions reduced to 25% from 100%.
The Darkin Blade
Damage against minions reduced to 40% at all levels from 50% to 100%.
9.14
General
Undocumented:Aatrox's walk animation for all his skins now performs correctly.
Stats
Health regeneration growth increased to 1 from 0.75.
World Ender
Removed: If Aatrox takes down at least one champion, taking lethal damage during World Ender no longer revives him over 3.25 seconds, during which he is untargetable, invulnerable, slowed by 99%, unable to basic attack, cast abilities, or use summoner spells or item actives and heals himself for 30% of his maximum health. While reviving, The Darkin Blade recast timer is locked.
Healing amplification increased to 50 to 70% from 40 to 70%.
Cooldown reduced to 120 to 80 seconds from 140 to 100.
9.12
Deathbringer Stance
Cooldown changed to 24 to 12 seconds from 15 at all levels.
World Ender
Bonus healing changed to self-healing only from all incoming healing.