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Sandster
Profile Joined November 2006
United States4054 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-02 13:57:08
November 02 2012 13:54 GMT
#481
Because once again...the extra life lets you alter your playstyle, and puts insane pressure on the other team. If a GA jax dives your team, you can collapse on him and burst him down, but then the rest of his team comes after you blow your team's cds, and you didn't even kill him. If a non-GA jax does that, you just kill him and either 5v4 or disengage and regroup. And like I said, it's the same way with Irelia - the moment she gets GA she has the option dive your back line much more aggressively. The fact that they can revive with defensive abilities (counterstrike/leapstrike out, stun/bladesurge out) makes it even more appealing.

It's like the difference between an AD going IE+vamp vs BT+QSS when facing Skarner. The moment you have QSS you can suddenly be much more aggressive with your positioning, which lets you increase your damage output while making the other team much more cautious.
clickrush
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Switzerland3257 Posts
November 02 2012 15:45 GMT
#482
well but GA isn't even up all the time while warmogs is. is the time you take to actually revieve what makes it better?? So you 1on5 and instantly die force a 4on5 for a couple secs and then fight with a tiny bit of health and mana? In this case zonyas would be way better wouldnt it because you actually dodge the burst instead of tanking it and its up much more often. I allways thought GA is good for synergy with health/lifesteal/regen and generally on ranged carries because they tend to die less in teamfights.

the comparison with QSS is BS imo because QSS does something completely different.

again iam not saying GA is bad on him. I think its awesome but I still don't see why it should be better than warmogs except if you want early resistance in lane or as you said the revieve time is actually that significant. but I kinda feel that this is largely a psychological thing.
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ExoFun
Profile Joined August 2010
Netherlands2041 Posts
November 02 2012 16:03 GMT
#483
What do you guys think of stinger on Jax?

After Phage and Sheen or in between.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
November 02 2012 16:55 GMT
#484
If it's good on Irelia then it's good on him too. But it's slot-inefficient and slows his more important items (like getting a triforce earlier), same as with Irelia.
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obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-04 23:34:12
November 02 2012 17:23 GMT
#485
GA is pretty broken as far as items go when it's up. When the passive is down it's not even cost efficient. Disregarding that it gives you free HP on revive, it also allows you to waste overkill, and waste the enemy time as they wait for you to revive. It's not like GA's passive doesn't stack with resists. M5 often goes for 4/5 GAs.

And I don't know if it was buffed but I thought jax's ult lasted a really short time.

Nashor's is not slot inefficient. It's just that whenever I try any cdr builds I feel really weak. Go into a bot game and go kindlegem soul shroud or shurelias or nashors brutalizer xin zhao. Then do it again with no cdr. The difference is night and day. The extra passives on other items and combat base stats means that cdr is a choice, not a necessity on anyone.
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Lmui
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada6223 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-04 21:22:45
November 04 2012 21:21 GMT
#486
Alright with Maknoon, a player far superior to any on this forum building nashor's +trinity + hexdrinker on jax, any thoughts?

You get to use W literally a quarter second after sheen proc comes off cooldown. Sounds good? Maybe?

He's building it after trinity but before any defensive items beyond boots 2

Edit:; Also worthwhile to note that there's a zilean+lulu on his team so no real need for GA early.
Zess
Profile Joined July 2012
Adun Toridas!9144 Posts
November 04 2012 21:26 GMT
#487
Nashor's and Trinity are the strongest damage items for Jax. I think Nashor's is a much better buy than the nerfed Gunblade (and the stats are nicer than Rageblade).

With CDR+MPen and CDR/lvl masteries, Nashor's gives you near max CDR so your W reset matches up exactly with Sheen CD. The DPS is insane.

What I'm more curious about is Ionic Spark Jax. His passive+ult passive is a built in Wit's End and Ionic Spark would let Jax just farm up and push in against unfavorable matchups the same way Irelia can do it.
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Leonite7
Profile Joined July 2011
Ireland921 Posts
November 04 2012 21:36 GMT
#488
Part of the reason he could get that nashors early was because he has zil so he had a free GA.
WilDMousE
Profile Joined July 2011
Chile1335 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-04 21:48:14
November 04 2012 21:48 GMT
#489
What about wit's end and/or spark? Is there any viability to see those items on jax?
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obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
November 04 2012 22:10 GMT
#490
On November 05 2012 06:21 Lmui wrote:
Alright with Maknoon, a player far superior to any on this forum building nashor's +trinity + hexdrinker on jax, any thoughts?

You get to use W literally a quarter second after sheen proc comes off cooldown. Sounds good? Maybe?

He's building it after trinity but before any defensive items beyond boots 2

Edit:; Also worthwhile to note that there's a zilean+lulu on his team so no real need for GA early.

Dyrus used to max Q on jax. He's still a better player than me, but I watched the game where he realized "hey, W is pretty good." I don't agree that just because maknoon does something, that something is good. I like phage and I don't like the idea of leaving off phage until after nashors is finished.
I think in our modern age technology has evolved to become more addictive. The things that don't give us pleasure aren't used as much. Work was never meant to be fun, but doing it makes us happier in the long run.
ZERG_RUSSIAN
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
10417 Posts
November 04 2012 22:27 GMT
#491
Clearly you get phage first but stinger is insane, have you tried it?
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ZERG_RUSSIAN
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
10417 Posts
November 04 2012 22:31 GMT
#492
On November 02 2012 20:18 clickrush wrote:
I didn't say its not useful. I said why I think it is useful but why I consider warmogs more useful and when. For me when an Item is good but situational or even suboptimal then I don't consider it as a core. Basicly I just want to know why people make GA despite the fact that jax allready has free mr/armor. I allready mentioned that the parts of GA might be situaionally more useful in short term. in a lategame situation when you have free mr+armor + a warmogs you definitely will tank more damage when you initiate than with a GA.

Do what you want if you think GA is "situationally useful" because you're right.

It's useful in situations, like every teamfight...
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Zess
Profile Joined July 2012
Adun Toridas!9144 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-04 22:49:50
November 04 2012 22:47 GMT
#493
On November 05 2012 06:48 WilDMousE wrote:
What about wit's end and/or spark? Is there any viability to see those items on jax?

Stinger > Wit's End in every case imo. Costs less so you can make up the difference with a real MR item like Negatron.

I just tried Ionic Spark. Seems like a really expensive Stinger ><

The one advantage is if your opponent starts to lose early and just plays passive under tower, Ionic lets you shove very hard and still harass them under the tower. It turns the lane into free farm for you and just lane pressure for them, which might be useful in something like vs Darius or vs Olaf.

Spark + Trinity + Nunu = 2.5 AS is pretty hilarious to see though. Lightning bolts everywhere.

Edit:

Regarding Q vs W max, in melee lanes (so exceptions for dumb things like Kayle, Jayce, Teemo etc), W max feels pretty mandatory. The CDR lets you get 2 W resets in a trade in most situations which really lets you chip them down and also stacks the ult procs. Plus it costs like no mana.
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Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14104 Posts
November 04 2012 23:26 GMT
#494
This nashors business is nothing new. I've advocated for it earlier and I really like it and a lot of other people like it.

The problem is that its not Triforce/ga and not as good as those 2 items. If you have a teamcomp that can compensate for your lack of GA then you can go nashors and really beast it up but its still not going to be as good as a GA.

However after the triforce/GA I don't know if it would be smarter to get a LW/Black cleaver instead of nashors to compliment your triforce procs.

Hex is clearly the most op item in lol right now. Just don't tell anyone and if you don't don't justify it or they'll start stealing my mail rush/hexdrinker taric build.
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obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-06 03:30:26
November 06 2012 03:28 GMT
#495
Well... uhm.
http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/12p4qf/ga_to_receive_a_similar_treatment_as_dfg/
Fuck.

GA nerf has to hurt all players who buy the item. Thankfully it will hurt every class.
I think in our modern age technology has evolved to become more addictive. The things that don't give us pleasure aren't used as much. Work was never meant to be fun, but doing it makes us happier in the long run.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
November 06 2012 03:44 GMT
#496
I don't like the way the original tweet phrases it. It's just whining that something "counters" his champ. Hey guess what, Karthus doesn't like Zhonya, Amumu/Skarner doesn't like QSS, etc.
Plus one GA won't ruin all of Kat's teamfighting, she'll just have to shift her priorities (and her teamfighting would be even more gimped by people buying FoN or BV for around the same price, requiring a lot more EHP to die from her). His reasoning is dumb, GA and similar effects (Zilean) have always been good against burst/assassins comps, well deal with it dude.
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obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
November 06 2012 03:50 GMT
#497
On November 06 2012 12:44 Alaric wrote:
I don't like the way the original tweet phrases it. It's just whining that something "counters" his champ. Hey guess what, Karthus doesn't like Zhonya, Amumu/Skarner doesn't like QSS, etc.
Plus one GA won't ruin all of Kat's teamfighting, she'll just have to shift her priorities (and her teamfighting would be even more gimped by people buying FoN or BV for around the same price, requiring a lot more EHP to die from her). His reasoning is dumb, GA and similar effects (Zilean) have always been good against burst/assassins comps, well deal with it dude.

Yeah. This kind of whining happens a lot on reddit. I used to assume that the guys at Riot just had a rule that they all ignored it but I guess they really do pay attention to the whines.

Morello says a lot of stuff. GA may not be nerfed.
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xDaunt
Profile Joined March 2010
United States17988 Posts
November 06 2012 03:52 GMT
#498
Meh, get Zhonya's instead of GA and call it a day.
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
November 06 2012 04:53 GMT
#499
Well lots of people started buying GA more often after the Banshee's and QSS nerfs hit those items fairly hard (although they bought it before that as well, just saying I think those things are correlated a bit).

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Jumbled
Profile Joined September 2010
1543 Posts
November 06 2012 04:57 GMT
#500
On November 06 2012 12:28 obesechicken13 wrote:
Well... uhm.
http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/12p4qf/ga_to_receive_a_similar_treatment_as_dfg/
Fuck.

GA nerf has to hurt all players who buy the item. Thankfully it will hurt every class.

I was expecting this. It was becoming more of an autobuy item than DFG or Abyssal ever were, and for all champ types too.
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