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Wheres Jax at?

 
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KaXaSA ?? Senior Member
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08-16-2010

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Originally Posted by killsteel View Post
...What does Riot think? They are blatantly ignoring the issue as usual. 100 Jax is weak threads in the last couple weeks and not a single red post on the issue, typical.
welcome to teemo and eve club :/

 
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RasaQ ?? Senior Member
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08-16-2010

Since the multiple nerfs to his passive atma's is no longer very effective unless you get some type of health item or giants belt.

 
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RasaQ ?? Senior Member
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08-16-2010

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Originally Posted by Malak al Maut View Post
Tryndamere can't be forced out of a lane once he hits level 5 so Trynd's early game woes end around 4 if you're decent at last hitting. Also, Tryndamere has one of the highest early game burst when he crits so an aggressive Tryndamere is problematic.

In Terms of Items:
Tryndamere only needs an IE and Boots, this is not a 40 minute endeavor. Jax is only good against teams with physical carries and even then Sword of the Divine blows him up.
Not to mention Tryndamere can be jungled from lvl 1

 
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Malak al Maut ?? Senior Member
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08-16-2010

Well, the only time I've jungled with Tryndamere from 1 is when I had smite so I can't really comment on that. I have left lanes at level 3, without smite, to jungle until 6 though. Unfortunately I can't solo Dragon until like 8/9.

 
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Janna B0t ?? Member
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08-16-2010

Jax's early game is an epic failure. Mid game is ok, and so is end game. Atmas no longer works too well on him either.

 
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RasaQ ?? Senior Member
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Well, the only time I've jungled with Tryndamere from 1 is when I had smite so I can't really comment on that. I have left lanes at level 3, without smite, to jungle until 6 though. Unfortunately I can't solo Dragon until like 8/9.
True smite is required, but considering he no longer relies on cleanse its not much of a drawback.

 
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hunkfish ?? Senior Member
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08-16-2010

at home sleep under his "nerf" store house.

Im waiting, waiting to hear this:

" I'm Back~~~" -Jax

Do it Riot!

 
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LordZero ?? Senior Member
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08-16-2010

Jax isn't the only melee carry that needs some love. I feel that all of the older melee carries like tryndamere and yi could use a few early game buffs so that they can compete with their softer and ranged counterparts. These hard melee carries are not only easily countered, but have crappy early games too whereas other softer carries have no such problems. Sure if you get to late game the hard carries will do better but the softer carries do almost as good of a job late game while still having a good early game and great mid game.

So please Riot, can you look at some of these old melee carries? Right now they are far out done by their newer counterparts.

 
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DapperJope ?? Senior Member
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08-16-2010

I don't think Riot cares much about the older characters like Jax anymore. He doesn't make them as much money as the new champion bundles will. Move along and let the memory of old Jax rest in peace.

Poor *******.

(maybe god wills a Jax buff in the future. Until then, our grandmaster at arms is a nub compared to other melee heroes.)

 
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Tanerian ?? Senior Member
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08-16-2010

Jax is as good as he was before the newer characters were released. Take the newer characters away, and jax is still completely viable.

All the new characters are just better in comparison to the others. Tristana and Ashe don't suck, Ezreal is just better.

Jax doesn't suck, Garen and Xin are just better.

The trend with the new characters is they almost all have an easy early game. Give a good player an easy early game and they will be able to take full advantage of it. The new characters are as good as or better than the older ones when fully geared, and get there way easier.