Morgana vs Aatrox
How to Beat Aatrox as Morgana
based on 8,517 Morgana vs Aatrox matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Morgana vs Aatrox Matchup Summary
Best Morgana vs Aatrox Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aatrox as Morgana
Tips for Playing as Morgana against Aatrox
Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
Advice to Win Against Aatrox
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
Morgana vs Aatrox Counter Stats
How to Counter Aatrox with Morgana in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several critical Morgana vs. Aatrox counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aatrox’s ratio of NaN, showing that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Aatrox. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Morgana normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Aatrox. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Morgana and Aatrox
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Who is Better, Morgana or Aatrox?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Morgana usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Aatrox, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Morgana makes an ok counter to Aatrox.
While Morgana does have a higher winrate than Aatrox, when on opposite teams, Morgana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Morgana into Aatrox.
Moreover, Morgana has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aatrox. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Aatrox matchups, Morgana is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Morgana is a decent counter for Aatrox. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Morgana against Aatrox.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Morgana in order to counter Aatrox during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana usually accumulates a lot less CS compared to Aatrox. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Morgana versus Aatrox build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Morgana included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Aatrox than with most other common builds. In fact, Morgana boasted an average winrate of 50.7% battling Aatrox with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Aatrox as Morgana, you should use the Glacial Augment, Triple Tonic, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Morgana vs Aatrox counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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