Talk:Jax/@comment-122.3.172.40-20120618054614/@comment-24.145.121.197-20120620183136

You mainly need a Sheen, builing it into a Trinity Force, and some kind of boots. Everything else is optional, really. Lifesteal and possibly spell vamp is nice for sustain, but you don't really notice it till you have some damage built... I always start with zerker boots > Trinity Force > Rageblade and only then do I bother with a Gunblade. He scales well with AD, AS, AP, not bad with CDR for faster W + Trinty spam... although he does seems to scale noticably better with AD than anything else, some hybrid items give you more overall stats than any pure AD item can give. Also, if you go too hard on AD after trinity, you can be hard countered with armor, Thornmail, and/or Frozen Heart. Of course, gearing hybrid allows you to avoid tanks hard countering your physical damage, and several hybrid items provide cost efficient stats and more of them than you'd find on any pure AD item.

The reason Sheen/Trinity Force is so powerful, is because w activates the extra 100/150% weapon damage hit, and maxed is only a 3 second cooldown, less with CDR... that also means that w effectively has 1.0/1.5 AD scaling, which is much higher than its' AP scaling, something that people tend not to take into account. I hear a lot of people saying w only scales with AP... and that's just silly :P

All things told, if you count the passive Ult as a part of auto attack, and take into account TF's effect on W... every source of damage Jax has actually scales better with AD... burst and sustained... although, I suppose if you did an AP Jax with Lich Bane instead you could do ok... but you'd lose out on your nice Phage slow.