Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
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.
Catching Milio with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Milio.
Milio's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some important Aatrox vs. Milio counter statistics that can help us realize the differences between the two. Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Milio’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Milio. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Aatrox normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Milio. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aatrox usually fairs equally well when taking on Milio, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Aatrox makes an ok counter to Milio.
While Aatrox does have a lower winrate than Milio, when on opposite teams, Aatrox also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Aatrox into Milio.
Moreover, Aatrox also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Milio. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Milio matchups, Milio is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Aatrox is a somewhat poor counter for Milio. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Aatrox against Milio.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox to counter Milio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox on average gets much more CS relative to Milio. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Aatrox versus Milio build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Aatrox included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Milio than with most other common item sets. In fact, Aatrox had an average winrate of 49.9% when playing against Milio with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Milio as Aatrox, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Aatrox vs Milio counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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