Jax feels like shit to play right now.

AdamrCc··3 votes·1,598 views

His laning phase is shit, be no longer has conq, and every tank in the game outright cockblocks him.

Don't even get me started on how even Master Yi, who Jax was a hard counter to beats him in a 1v1 through the stun these days while still building far cheaper items.

It's time you'll revert his past couple of nerfs or give him a VGU.

13 Comments

Soul Dealer3 votes

FINALLY SOMEONE WHO AGREES WITH ME. Sorry I got excited. I have played Jax for years and this preseason he feels so bad to play. They nerfed Jax two or three times bc of spear and never reverted them when they removed it. His active on his ult is not even that great anymore bc of all the true damage and percent max health damage. Finally Jax is supposed to be a split pusher but his aa reset doesn’t work on turrets meanwhile fio q and e works, yorick q minions and maiden, and Camille true damage all work on turrets. I really hope riot giver him some love soon.

Whisper874 votes

Hard split push top laners like Jax/Irelia/Fiora are super gimped right now because of all of the changes that have moved focus away from playing the map and forcing players into fighting more over the years. You can point to a lot of things, but here are the first few that come to mind for me:

  1. Shorter lane phase - often times the game gets away from you before you have the chance to become the best 1v1 on the map
  2. Free homeguards - using split push and rotations/trading objectives to counter teams forcing engages is much harder now because of faster response time
  3. Scuttle movement speed buff - same as up above
  4. Teleport nerfs - yes this was mostly aimed at lane phase, but side effect of it is that with a longer CD, there is are fewer windows where a Jax can afford to sit in a side lane opposite his team
  5. Cloud drake - yeah I know this changed in the preseason here, but it was a problem over the last year bailing out teams who were getting split pushed or rotated on

Personally I'd love to see the game return back to the days where you could win a game almost purely through macro. The days where C9 sat on top of NA by having Hai shot call and run teams around the map and punishing aggression with objective trades...that was the golden age of League man.

Smyrage3 votes

Good

Warmas1 votes

It's just funny how obviously true his comment is as shojin remove nerfs jax significantly and conquerer change makes him have 0 ways to deal with tanks, but still gets downvoted. He is not even asking crazy shit. Good job community just downvote everything that isn't your champion that is what got us to todays balance, worse than ever before.

AdamrCc1 votes

I don't expect this community to be intelligent in the least bit. But denying Jax isn't going through the Sejuani effect is just bullshit.

They nerfed him while Shojin was around and then forgot to remove the nerfs.

BBKong1 votes

I could be wrong, and I'm not saying he doesn't feel shit to play, but there are quite a few champs where a clear weakness of theirs is "tanks ruin their day" and it kinda feels like Jax was supposed to be one of those.

Against most tanks his counterstrike dodge won't matter, and that's one of his biggest strengths. Plus he does decent mixed damage which isn't great versus tanks without Rageblade if they do itemize for both instead of pouring everything into armor, which then means if you have a balanced team comp they'll do well against your mixed damage in laning phase AND have resists for both kinds outside of it (worse than them stacking armor and dying to your AP midlaner even though the armor makes them win lane).

He probably needs some changes but I don't think the simple fact of "tanks fuck him over" is a good point to stand on. He still has his insane stick potential and his E against right clickers (which, again, most tanks are not).

toby mcteague1 votes

Keep Jax trash for at least 1 year. You cant have jax be brokennfor 1 entire year, and then cry that hes too weak 3 weeks into pre season.

You cant eat your cake, and still have it too.

AdamrCc1 votes

You're just salty an easy to counter champion kicks your ass.

toby mcteague2 votes

I mean I play mid. Never really had problems with Jax to be honest. But having his stun on a 1.5 second cooldown with shojin, where is the counterplay.

Youre just mad that you cant abuse jax anymore and now youre losing elo 😂

AdamrCc1 votes

The counterplay is far up your ass where your head also seems to be. You don't realise that Spear of Shojin literally doesn't exist.

Arammus1 votes

oh hey hashinshin, since when do you have an euw account?

NaughtyWord1 votes

You got spoiled by the galactic monstrosity that was item 3161 and now that you don't have your insanely broken item, you actually have to play.

Pity.

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

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