Balancing Jax: Unique passive: Spellblade

CrownClownBuilds·10/12/2019, 9:31:05 PM·2 votes·3,041 views
What exactly is Jax's weakness?

Recently I saw a post about Jax being broken and generally the comment section seemed to agree that Jax was a broken champion. However it's difficult to change Jax without gutting him as a playable champion. That's where a small fix to a set of items would perfectly balance Jax. In that post I have a comment about my thoughts, but I would like to make a separate post to discuss just this one change. "I was thinking about this for a while now, and I think I've found the perfect balancing item for Jax. Unique passive, Spellblade. It is used by Sheen, Triforce, Lich bane, and Iceborn Gauntlet. If there was an added effect of Spellblade where only the empowered attack cannot be dodged, then Jax would easily be balanced. There are many toplaners and mages who use Spellblade through Lich Bane or Triforce. Of course, Jax would still be able to dodge ordinary attacks, but if just that one hit every two seconds is guaranteed to hit, then it allows some counterplay where Jax isn't entirely invincible. Champions like Fizz, Ez, Fio, Camille, Dar, GP. etc would be able to still land some damage while not entirely ruining Jax as a champion. Also, this is a very niche change in that it wont affect any champions except for Shen and Jax. Thoughts?"

5 Comments

DOUBLE TAPPED E10/12/2019, 10:12:52 PM3 votes

Idk I play Katarina and just kill him while it's still spinning, since the vast majority of her damage completely ignores his E, and item 3135 turns his R active into a pretty lightshow I get to watch while he's dying.

SFHFWill10/12/2019, 10:39:41 PM3 votes

This would completely crap all over Shen , would hurt Xin if faced against an Ezreal for the sole purpose of fixing Jax. Jax is broken because of Spirit of Shojin. There are a few champions that abuse that item far too well. This is basically the issue Rito had with DFG, a few champs used DFG far too well and they kept trying to balance champs that abused it around that item, making that item 100% required rush on them. It's bad design.

Champs that abuse Shojin too well: Camille Jax Renekton Riven

There might be more but these are the ones I see that make far too much use out of that item.