Why is it that Jax is never getting nerfed??

TrikzterzArma··70 votes·16,879 views

Like come on, you can't defend his kit anymore. He is broken.

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d0riyah29 votes

Jax is NOT broken, he is NOT overpowered. If he goes top, he loses to literally everyone that's meta right now. Akali Aatrox Darius Urgot Irelia Viktor Sion not to mention his late game couldn't beat them still. If he goes jungle, he has to powerfarm to get items because he sucks early. Therefore the enemy jungler could be proactive around the map way more, and get everyone fed. Jax can't countergank. The only thing he can do is get dragon at 6, but if he's spotted then he's dead. By the time he gets his item spikes their jungler's gotten everyone fed af and Jax can't fight them. His e, the so called 'broken ability' isn't even broken. Late game he needs to use leap to go into the fight, and then he's stunlocked to death. he ain't broken, quit whining about Jax just because you died to him late game once. man, i feel bad for Hashinshin because nobody realizes he's right about Jax haha.

HopeStartsWithU17 votes

Sorry but he literally has ALL the tools to go even with the champs you listed. Especially Sion should have a tough time to keep up with him. He is by no means overpowered but he is frustrating as fuck because top champs love to use their aas.

He is the toplane equivalent of Ahri because of his safety and how straightforward he is. You defending hashinshin is because you are a Jax main and are clearly biased. That guy called Riven op when she is in a shit state for several months, fuck it actually the whole fucking season. I mean if you lose against Akali, Irelia, Darius top then you should stop playing Jax.

GayFluffyUnicorn19 votes

Wow im defending jax despite jax hardcountering my main. Cant even lane against jax as camille and jax is not op, not broken. He is SO easy to beat. Just five minutes ago another jax that went 0/3, lost fb turret and was 80 CS down against me.Guess what i played an AA champ. . Just git fuckin gud.

it annoys the shit out of me how ACTUAL broken champs like urgot,like viktor, like sion, like kennen, like irelia, like akali, like lucian ruin the entire fuckin game cuz they get picked EVERY SINGLE GAME and instantly win everything due to how fuckin broken they are and yet all you people do is complain about fuckin jax and darius on these shitboards. When a player like ventair answers twitch chat he wouldnt advise playing jax currently cuz he is not good (you know talking to low elo players in his chat) but jax is SO BROKEN literally noone wants him on his team. Oh god jax can jump on me and i cannot melee rightclick him to death what is this mimimimi babyrage i have to move my character riot please nerf this is so op.

Edit: Holy fuckin shit you are actually a fuckin riven player. Are u joking? you call jax op and riven shit despite her being LITERALLY THE BEST CHAMPION TOP IN SOLOQ RIGHT NOW. Talking about jax "safety" when he has NO way to clear waves, no sustain and no ability to farm from range. Salty fuckin riven shitter because jax is one of the few champs you cannot just one combo into and kill him. WHO is actually biased? Riven that got NOTHING but MASSIVE buffs since 5.21 complaining about anything. MASSIVE base dmg buffs on ulti (150 base btw), better ratios, health regen from 1,3 to 7,5 DESPITE HER HAVING A SHIELD WITH NO RESOURCES, animation cancels made easier and easier. your champion gets buffed the moment he is not toptier anymore.

Blackii72 votes

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Wow im defending jax despite jax hardcountering my main. Cant even lane against jax as camille and jax is not op, not broken. He is SO easy to beat. Just five minutes ago another jax that went 0/3, lost fb turret and was 80 CS down against me.Guess what i played an AA champ. . Just git fuckin gud.

it annoys the shit out of me how ACTUAL broken champs like urgot,like viktor, like sion, like kennen, like irelia, like akali, like lucian ruin the entire fuckin game cuz they get picked EVERY SINGLE GAME and instantly win everything due to how fuckin broken they are and yet all you people do is complain about fuckin jax and darius on these shitboards. When a player like ventair answers twitch chat he wouldnt advise playing jax currently cuz he is not good (you know talking to low elo players in his chat) but jax is SO BROKEN literally noone wants him on his team. Oh god jax can jump on me and i cannot melee rightclick him to death what is this mimimimi babyrage i have to move my character riot please nerf this is so op.

Edit: Holy fuckin shit you are actually a fuckin riven player. Are u joking? you call jax op and riven shit despite her being LITERALLY THE BEST CHAMPION TOP IN SOLOQ RIGHT NOW. Talking about jax "safety" when he has NO way to clear waves, no sustain and no ability to farm from range. Salty fuckin riven shitter because jax is one of the few champs you cannot just one combo into and kill him. WHO is actually biased? Riven that got NOTHING but MASSIVE buffs since 5.21 complaining about anything. MASSIVE base dmg buffs on ulti (150 base btw), better ratios, health regen from 1,3 to 7,5 DESPITE HER HAVING A SHIELD WITH NO RESOURCES, animation cancels made easier and easier. your champion gets buffed the moment he is not toptier anymore.

Wait, if you actually think that Riven is in a good state, then you need some serious help. Jax isn't broken, he is just strong. However Riven is in a really bad state right now. In fact no1 can play her except Riven OTPs and Riven mains. She got no Runes that works well with her, (Most take Spellbook) She can't build lethality anymore. Her shield is fine, but no where near viktor, sion, urgot, etc....

Zardo4 votes

Riven is not in a bad state.

Source: I play riven, do not main her and am not a OTP. I do well. Just go into practice tool, learn some combos, learn your basic fast combo, and play a few normals to learn your powerspikes.

NemeBro3 votes

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Wait, if you actually think that Riven is in a good state, then you need some serious help. Jax isn't broken, he is just strong. However Riven is in a really bad state right now. In fact no1 can play her except Riven OTPs and Riven mains. She got no Runes that works well with her, (Most take Spellbook) She can't build lethality anymore. Her shield is fine, but no where near viktor, sion, urgot, etc....

https://lolalytics.com/ranked/worldwide/diamond/plus/champion/Riven/Top/

So weak. ;_;

HopeStartsWithU1 votes

Because ONLY her mains play her in high elo. Its REALLY not a hard concept to grasp. Like aurelion sol mains. And since Riven is kind of a favourite in lol she will also have a lot of mains playing her. I mean nobody plays aurelion sol but he is broken as fuck when mains play him. Same goes for Riven. But Riven players usually invest more into the champ than any other player.

She isn't weak yes. But she isnt as op as people say she is.

Blackii71 votes

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https://lolalytics.com/ranked/worldwide/diamond/plus/champion/Riven/Top/

So weak. ;_;

For a champion mainly played by mains and OTPs yes. she is weak.

HopeStartsWithU2 votes

Buddy, keep your tone down. Stop being a salty kid and learn to keep a discussion in a peaceful manner.

First of all, Camille counters Jax. You can see it in pro play, soloq literally everywhere. Camille is one of the most obnoxious champs in the fucking game with her adaptive shield, her insane amount of true damage and her insane lockdown.

Second of all Riven is by no means strong. She is extremely item dependant and is by far the worst early top laner in the game. She scales well into the late game but by no means is she op. Nobody will tell you (except for hashinshin) that Riven is op. Literally nobody. Anything that goes toplane counters her ass. Renekton, Camille, Jax, Pantheon, Aatrox, Irelia, Viktor, Kled, Urgot. And the rest is literally skill matchup. Fuck even GP with resolve runes can make her laning as boring as it can be. Her early is literally dogshit and when the game favours early/mid game champs, Riven will just be a bad champ to anyone who doesn't main her.

Third of all, learn to fucking read. I never said Jax is op. I said he is frustrating just like how Zed can be annoying as fuck or any other champ that is hard to reach. Jax isn't bad he is above average which makes him clearly better than other champs and when a fucking RIGHT CLICK MELEE CHAMP IS "ABOVE AVERAGE" THAN HE IS FRUSTRATING TO PLAY AGAINST.

Instead of being toxic, how about you think a bit before and ask yourself: "why would someone say jax is frustrating to play against?" maybe then MAYBE you will understand that not everyone shares your opinion?

Automated Riven2 votes

wait wat??

RIven is fine right now. She isnt shit, she isnt OP. you just have to know how to play her.

secondly,

Anything that goes toplane counters her ass. Renekton, Camille, Jax, Pantheon, Aatrox, Irelia, Viktor, Kled, Urgot. And the rest is literally skill matchup. Fuck even GP with resolve runes can make her laning as boring as it can be. Her early is literally dogshit and when the game favours early/mid game champs, Riven will just be a bad champ to anyone who doesn't main her.

what the fuck is this shit? renekton is garbage and only has kill pressure on you if you feed early. Otherwise you pretty much destroy him. pantheon cant poke through dorans and second wind. AAtrox is impossible for either of you to kill if both players have a brain. He cant land his skillshots because they are obnoxiously telegraphed and she cant kill him without him over commiting. Jax only beats riven if you fast combo his counter strike or the player is flat out better. (he does out scale tho) irelia loses to riven until she gets triforce. One of viktors worst winrates in toplane is against riven. Kled is a skill matchup. Urgot hard counters her, And any self respecting riven player would have put poppy on this list as she is the only other champion in the game right now that riven cannot lane against. In fact. The only toplaners in the game right now that she has a negative winrate against are quinn teemo garen nasus poppy rengar urgot kled. Of which you only mentioned 2. Urgot and Kled. Literally every other lane matchup in toplane she has a possitive winrate against. Most of these are garbage champions and the stats likely come from low ele where people cant play riven, like at all. Poppy Urgot and I will grant you kled are the troublesome champions for riven. she is favored in the rest of the lanes.

Its like the fucking riven sub reddit. stop fucking complaining and learn how to play the damn champion. -

HopeStartsWithU1 votes

I reached platinum with Riven and having a constant winrate of 60+% winrate for almost 2 seasons. You are talking to the wrong guy, gameplay board warrior. I know you from a lot of posts in which you just post garbage anyway.

I wanna see the source of your "facts" because all I know is that anything meta stomps riven except for sion. renekton, pantheon and jax are natural riven counters since the beginning of this freaking game (or since their releases before you cry about that sentence again).

https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/de/champions/counters/riven/platinum now tell me fucking again that Kled is "skill match up" and pantheon is garbage against her.

Before you talk, check your facts or in your case, make it out of silver ffs. In fact you didn't even play her this season http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Automated+Riven

Automated Riven1 votes

My source website was lol analytics. I can't link the website because I'm on mobile.

And I didn't play ranked at all this year. However I did play a fair amount of riven early in the year before I quit. Then I played her fairly rarely because I don't play enough to maintain a general mechanical level to not suck.

HopeStartsWithU1 votes

Makes sense, mb then.

TonyTonyMordecai1 votes

Is Viktor actually broken, or is it just the build he takes...? I don't remember the last time I heard people unanimously complain about Kennen, but then again, I don't go top lane very often.

Nicolasbo1436 votes

Jax is not overpowered or strong right now, he doesn't have a strong early game, sucks at team fighting, and only does well when ahead. He is not broken.

SilentBomber1 votes

Calling any player that defends Jax a "hashinshin fun" is not the right way to argue.Jax has been the least problematic champion for the past seasons.Only his W has been changed (+ 50 range).

Half of the champions pool deal high damage early game with cheaper items.Other champions are far from simply broken unlike Jax.

Your problem guys(including those players that created more topics about jax) is not if Jax is op or not.It's his kit.He is a splitpusher,got ways to escape and counter your skilled plays with his E,which it has a respected cd.

Lux Is Mai Waifu2 votes

jax is like the only thing hashinshin is right about, so they're really just strengthening their argument

Lady Hammerlock2 votes

But his engage is also usually really telegraphed, and playing against him in lane is mostly about playing around his E especially if you're mostly auto based.

This also holds true in teamfights, if his E is down, he's probably going to wind up dead.

Illabethe2 votes

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But his engage is also usually really telegraphed, and playing against him in lane is mostly about playing around his E especially if you're mostly auto based.

This also holds true in teamfights, if his E is down, he's probably going to wind up dead.

Depends. Jax has a way to cut those skill animations and hide them (Like Riven).

Also, there's some really interesting combinations once he has CDR which make him almost impossible to run from (Ward Jump max distance, Flash >Counterstrike is EXTREMELY hard to play around, and by the time the stun's over, he's got his Leap up again, so fat chance escaping after he counterstrikes)

HopeStartsWithU1 votes

And what is with Riven in teamfights? Ever tried to do a teamfight while flash is on cd? Literally anyone at high elo (i mean challenger by that) tries to avoid teamfights if they can because without flash rivens engage is as obvious as jaxs E engage. Her preparing her Qs alone is in indicator to wait out. Sorry but the "telegraphed" argument doesn't work if jax STILL wins the lane against her if the Jax player isnt braindead. The problem with Riven right now is that she doesnt have much dps to hold up against early lane bullies while her bullies has been buffed over the curse of patches. Riven buffs were all compensations.

I dont mean she is shit. She really isnt bad. But by no means is she the best. She is far from it. She is a pure soloq champ because of the many tools she has but she also comes with high risk.

Unlimited Ninja1 votes

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Jax is NOT broken, he is NOT overpowered. If he goes top, he loses to literally everyone that's meta right now. Akali Aatrox Darius Urgot Irelia Viktor Sion not to mention his late game couldn't beat them still. If he goes jungle, he has to powerfarm to get items because he sucks early. Therefore the enemy jungler could be proactive around the map way more, and get everyone fed. Jax can't countergank. The only thing he can do is get dragon at 6, but if he's spotted then he's dead. By the time he gets his item spikes their jungler's gotten everyone fed af and Jax can't fight them. His e, the so called 'broken ability' isn't even broken. Late game he needs to use leap to go into the fight, and then he's stunlocked to death. he ain't broken, quit whining about Jax just because you died to him late game once. man, i feel bad for Hashinshin because nobody realizes he's right about Jax haha.

the Darius/jax matchup is more skillbased. If jax avoids his q during fights, he wins

Joseraph1 votes

I really feel like what makes or breaks this matchup is also if Jax can get his E up after Darius E, but before a AA>W

Unlimited Ninja1 votes

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I really feel like what makes or breaks this matchup is also if Jax can get his E up after Darius E, but before a AA>W

Darius can also counter jax e with his e, if darius cant get away from jax e, he can pull jax right when it goes off. This gives a little mini stun after the pull is complete. Pretty much cancelling out Jax e.

Daddy Ants27 votes

Lucian is more desperate for nerfs.

Wicked Hunter1 votes

ADC is really in a shitty state atm so why we need to nerf him? Do we need to nerf every single adc till the role is more dead than is atm?

Daddy Ants1 votes

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ADC is really in a shitty state atm so why we need to nerf him? Do we need to nerf every single adc till the role is more dead than is atm?

Because he's broken and needs them?

Kersho24 votes

they are probably waiting to see how the preseason patch treats him even though hes not that op imo

AirKingNeo23 votes

because Jax still isn't being picked competitively?

because Jax isn't broken?

because Jax is only statistically above average?

Neptunia xoxo3 votes

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because Jax still isn't being picked competitively?

because Jax isn't broken?

because Jax is only statistically above average?

uninstall

AirKingNeo7 votes

Woops, I forgot I was on the gameplay boards. No facts allowed.

Neptunia xoxo2 votes

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Woops, I forgot I was on the gameplay boards. No facts allowed.

Seeing as hes played a lot in masters and challenger... dunno where you are getting these "facts" from tbh but regardless his kit is overall cancer to play against and ofc hes not the only one but he should be on the list of reworks.

AirKingNeo6 votes

51% winrate, 8.4% pickrate is perfectly acceptable statistically.

Explain how his kit is cancer?

Neptunia xoxo1 votes

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51% winrate, 8.4% pickrate is perfectly acceptable statistically.

Explain how his kit is cancer?

not even worth arguing with you lmao hurts my eyes

Joseraph2 votes

Lucian 54.3% 39.5 30.6 Pickban Taliyah 54.7% 11.2 10.9 Pickban Janna 53.7% 8.8 0.8 Pickban Fizz 55.7% 5.0 5.2 Pickban Ahri 53.6% 11.9 6.6 Pickban Talon 54.9 6.6 5.7Pickban Kha 53.8% 10.3 9.3 Pickban Kassadin 53.5% 11.3 35.1 Pickban

Look at all these "High risk High Reward skill champions" sitting on crazy WPB ratios. You know who the problem is though? A telegraphed, kiteable, peelable, binary champion sitting on 52% with so many junglers/tops that do his job better

AirKingNeo1 votes

I gave you facts. You did not. I asked you to explain your argument. You refused.

You are not worth arguing with.

Woodakoodashooda21 votes

Jax is an old, basic, and nearly untouched champion. His kit revolves entirely around Trinity Force and Riot seems aware of this fact as Trinity Force itself has undergone many changes over the years. If Riot intended to tweak Jax, they probably wouldn't target him, but his primary item instead.

That said, Trinity Force is a powerful item and, once fully purchased, brings a champion's win rate to or above 60%. The fact it costs so much more than any other item in game is what prevents its abuse because it takes so long to complete in a meta in which early game usually determines the victor.

Zero Skill Tank1 votes

Trinity force is core on many champions, if Riot intended to tweak Jax, there is a lot of places in Jax's kit to hit. It's not like his numbers are super-low and he relies solely on TF. In fact most numbers in his kit are completely retarded.

saltran20 votes

I think he's strong but not overwhelming

BLIGHTBRINGER18 votes

Because Jax Jax is dodging all of their attempts with his Counterstrike obviously.

Horse Grenades5 votes

Marry me

HP Crookshanks17 votes

or Lucian ?

Thefrostyviking12 votes

Statistics would claim that he is nothing more than a bit above average but nothing special.

51% winrate for diamond toplane isnt really anything terrifying,,,,,,i mean at a point i think Aurelion had like 60% for midlane.

Of course this doesnt count the mains at all, however the worst offenders i know were once again Aurelion mains along with Taliyah and Zac mains hitting like 65-70% winrate on their champs when they were truly good, and this was in korean Diamond.'

As long as Jax doesnt pull something like that he wont gain any attention.

GrãñðmãstêrShãçø10 votes

No, Jax is not broken, he is just a bit stronger pick right now, I mean, his items are expensive and his early game is as bad as kassadin's, and that is how he is balanced, shit early game and a strong late, he is like nasus but he needs gold not stacks

Mimr2 votes

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No, Jax is not broken, he is just a bit stronger pick right now, I mean, his items are expensive and his early game is as bad as kassadin's, and that is how he is balanced, shit early game and a strong late, he is like nasus but he needs gold not stacks

His earlygame is not as weak as you'd think, especially not against other melee's. Anyway, if Jax is to be nerfed, I'd hit his earlygame. Lategame has always been Jaxs' schtick, so leave that alone.

ModCaptainMårvelous9 votes

Every few weeks Hashinshin takes a trip to Riot.

He doesn't actually do anything. Just kind of paces back and forth with a baseball bat. Depending on what Jax changes are on the PBE sometimes it'll be covered in barbed wire.

I'll let you figure it out from there.

delete shaco7 votes

His sheen proc is too strong because of conqueror but believe me when I say he’s not broken.

JFRANKSTA4 votes

where is Hashinshin when you need him to tell people that they are stupid?

SuffocateMeDaddy3 votes

https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/jax/euw/top/diamond

Because when you look at him on server that actually has relevant meta, you realize, that he kinda fucking sucks.

MLDzXnRRR3 votes

The only games I see Jax becoming a god, are when he has item 3508 and the enemy team has no burst to 1shot him, because ER builds trade defensive items for dmg... 2 or 3 stuns in a row will beat any team, if he lands them. But good luck doing this to ranged champions.

KingBlackthorn12 votes

So, a while back they said Jax and Diana are the same. They cannot nerf the without wrecking them, but they cannot buff them without breaking them

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