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.
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
The stats shown here clarify some strategic Aatrox against Soraka counter stats that may help us interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Soraka. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Aatrox typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Soraka. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aatrox usually wins when trying to fight Soraka, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Aatrox makes a good counter for Soraka.
While Aatrox does have a higher winrate compared to Soraka, when on opposite teams, Aatrox also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Aatrox into Soraka.
Moreover, Aatrox has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Soraka matchups, Aatrox is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Aatrox is a decent counter for Soraka. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Aatrox against Soraka.
To learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox in order to counter Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox most often racks up much more CS as Soraka. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Aatrox versus Soraka build consist of Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Aatrox bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Soraka than with most other common builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average winrate of 51.0% battling Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Soraka as Aatrox, Aatrox players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Aatrox vs Soraka battles, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.
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