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On March 02 2010 04:07 Mogwai wrote:
word on the streets is that Jax went from pretty bad to really fucking good with this patch. I see the two major changes as a big deal, but I'm not sure I buy the amount of hype over him right now... Anyone have any experiences to confirm/deny that Jax is really fucking good now that he gets bonus HP off his passive and can jump to friendly units?

On March 02 2010 04:34 Southlight wrote:
One of the problems with Jax was keeping up his attack speed (his ult gives attack speed but especially pre-level 11/16 it was hard to get much speed going, you can feel this) whilst not compromising damage (attack speed items often expensive, and damage items don't usually give attack speed) and survival (hp, armor, MR).

Guinsoo's Rageblade, which has become the norm for him, has become like a perma-max buff, because 8 stacks on GRB is like what, 30% attack speed and 50 AP? And because he has two! spam skills, both of which are relatively inexpensive, he can charge up to 8 stacks and maintain it, even outside of combat, for a decent amount of time. This also increases damage, because you get like a flat 30/30 damage and AP, plus another 50ish from max stack, and the 30 damage gives you some good HP. That one item basically sets up his basic damage output for good. Beyond that now you have the option of balancing damage and survival, with the caveat that any damage item you make gives you ridiculous survival. Finish Bloodthirster and you get more HP than a Giant's Belt (1150 gold). While also giving you some crazy damage output. Get Treads and you'll be staring at about 25% dodge rate (with runes) and 85 magic resist, and with the passive giving HP he's a free tank at the cost of damage.

LOCUST actually considers Jax the #1 hero now (over TF!) because it's so difficult to kill a Jax, who will tank and punish you. He's Alistar-tier in terms of tanking prowess now. If you ignore a Jax you'll lose some heroes. If you attack him he's liable to doing AoE stuns.

I don't think I would go that far (although LOCUST generally knows what he's talking about) but he's definitely a very, very powerful hero, I'd consider him top 10 easily. He's by far the best hybrid melee DPS/tank character now (easily trumping Nasus).

Edit:
Case and point, go Guinsoo, Treads, and Thirster; you're looking at like 50 armor, 85 MR, roughly 3000 HP, and something like 200 attack damage and 80 AP, the last of which obviously affects the damage output of every single skill he has. That's like 7000 gold. Most matches over around the 10k gold mark.