Talk:Rumble/@comment-24.6.194.76-20120530171825/@comment-88.186.19.90-20120531224049

Deny jax CS as much as possible pre-6, kills are good, but it's more important to "not give gold" to Jax than "giving gold" to yourself. Invest in an early ward and push his lane to the tower constantly. He can't trade with you at all since you don't AA him and are manaless, while he has to hit you to deal his damage and you can kite his stun with your harpoon.

After 6, get some magic resist like a negatron cloak (into abyssal is good). The idea is to tank his jump-empower burst with your scrap shield, then kite his dodge-stun with your harpoon, after that, it depends on wether he activated his ult or not. If he hasn't, turn around and pound as hard as you can. If he does, run for the hills, come back 8 seconds later and unleash everything you can on him repeatedly. It's a delicate maneuver, but Jax's ult at level 6 is currently OP according to top players and anyone capable of basic math calculations, so there's nothing else you can do: whatever happens, he'll continue farming and will eventually make a comeback.

If you managed to get a good CS advantage, push the lane hard and go gank mid/counterjungle. Ideally, gank mid hard enough to force the AP to recall, then force a dragon as fast as you can. If Jax moves from his lane, he remains behind on farming and his teamfight potential won't be enough to change the balance of a 4v5. If he doesn't, you gave a dragon and probably kills to your team. After the dragon, send the jungler to depush top lane (junglers love getting creeps from lanes) and push mid-lane tower along with the other AP carry until you take it down. Once you did that, resume powerfarming until the next drake pops-up, or if you are really confident/greedy/insane, gank botlane once. If the enemy AP didn't recall, force the dragon anyway: Rumble is very strong in teamfights early.

If you did not manage to get a significant CS advantage, you probably lost your lane. Try not feeding kills and be present in any teamfights. If the rest of your team isn't doing well, as a top-laner you are not responsible for your team's shortcomings: just powerfarm like any good top-laner should.