Talk:Jax/@comment-26090928-20150209012220/@comment-26090928-20150209212959

AD Jax isn't exceptionally viable though, and full AP Jax, the kind that build Nashor's tooth and Lich Bane, is a largely gimmick build because of how squishy he is.

The reason Jax is a viable hybrid champion isn't because he has both AD and AP scaling skills (2 scaling off both at the same time), it's because he's a strictly auto attack based champion who does the vast majority of his damage not because of raw stats but because of bonus sources of damage.

Seriously, his ratios on empower and grandmaster's might aren't super impressive, and especially so because he doesn't invest massive amounts of AP into them like mages do. The reason he's so scary though is because he has a massive passive attack speed steroid and he gets 220+70%AP bonus damage every third hit, plus empower is a 3 second cool down by level 9. he can proc Tforce's spellblade passive basically back to back once it's off cooldown, which at level 18 is 238 bonus damage, and Bork's bonus damage is a flat physical damage boost of at least 100 damage each auto attack, even more against tanks and stuff. The most common Jax builds don't really exceed about 50 AD or AP, and dual AD/AP items like Gunblade or Rageblade don't often fit into his build unless he builds glass instead of tanky. His kit is by design hybrid, but it has nothing to do with his item stats or ratios and everything to do with on hit effects and base damage.