Gunblade on jax

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60% AP Ratio on Q, 60% AP Ratio on W, 70% AP Ratio on R Passive.

Not to mention his R Active that grants MR equal to 20/35/50 + 20% of his AP.

A lot of dedicated Mages don't even have AP Ratios that high.

EDIT: Total AP from Trinity Force (30 AP) + Gunblade (80 AP) + Rageblade (40 AP) = 150 (206 if you include Rageblade's Passive). Total MR from Rank 3 Ultimate Active = 50 + 30 (41.2) = 80 (91.2).

Listing out AP ratios is usually an invalid argument. I can say Nunu has 100% AP ratio on his E and 250% on his ultimate. Does that justify building AP on him? No it doesn't.

Mages deal damage in an AoE from more than half a screen away. Meanwhile Jax has to leap into melee range. Okay you built rageblade Hextech. That's like 144 extra damage combined on your Q + W. Then you somehow stick on long enough without getting oneshot to land ur third auto. Your ult third hit does 84 extra damage. Except you won't stick on long enough. You have no sticking power/ability to deal damage in any scenario except a 1v1. And there aren't going to be many 1v1's by the time you have hextech and rageblade.

Okay imagine you build gunblade and rageblade. If you build anymore damage than this, then you're useless and squishy unless the game is snowballed extremely hard. So assume these are your only damage items.

You suffer during early game because building these items focuses damage on spells. You can't trade as effectively as a simple Sheen would get you. The spell cooldowns are long and you don't have enough AP early on for the spell damage to be worth it over a BoRK or a Tri.

Maybe mid game the 120 AP will increase your damage but by that point it's mid game and you should be going tank and you can't build anymore damage items unless you like getting oneshot every fight. Your AP damage falls off while a BoRK would've scaled in damage.

Your only sticking ability is Hextech active. No Bork or Phage means Jax is a lot easier to peel off and kill.

You can't take towers as quickly since you have less attack speed, less AD, and you built AP. No sheen proc either.

Building one of these two suboptimal items is okay I guess if you're ahead but straight up rushing both of them is ridiculous. Rageblade's upfront stats are not worth investing 2600 gold into. Gunblade is costly and wastes gold on spellvamp and AP that won't benefit you.

Oh yeah that 80 Mr will definitely make you invincible. Still not worth it in the end. The armor and MR from your ult just aren't good enough to keep you alive. Void staff and Last whisper shred through it easily. What you need is some HP from tank items and much higher values of resistances from them.

If I wanted more sticking power I'd probably get both.

Regardless, the CDR from Frozen Heart (20%) and Spirit Visage (10%) provides a total of 30% CDR. At 30% CDR, Rank 5 Leap Strike has a 4.2 Second Cooldown. Take into account Mercury's Treads's % Tenacity, Phage's Passive (Rage), and the % Movement Speed from Zeal along with the 4.2 Second Leap Strike Cooldown as well as the increased mana pool and you could quite literally stick to a target from one side of the map to the other.