Talk:Jax/@comment-33128512-20190115204917/@comment-26808509-20190227095800

That's essentially the problem with bruisers in this game. They combine damage with tankyness and it's a literal balance nightmare. For one, if they are too tanky, they tend to outclass tanks because they deal more damage while being (almost) as tanky as them AND offering a similar strong engage, like in this case a point and click jump followed by an AoE stun. On the other hand, if their damage is too high, they outclass other melee carries or in rare cases even assassins, because they are way tankier than them while dealing (almost) as much damage as them.

Damage or tankyness allways was a tradeoff. Either you deal loads of damage and are in danger to die urself or you are tanky enough to sit on your enemy, but don't deal the damage to easily kill him. Bruisers simply ignore this trade off, which is why they are so hard to balance.

Back to Jax. He is one of the worst examples who seriously gives me a headache. His damage is really - like really - high once he got Trinity Force. And item that enables him not only to have very good dps (passive, AA resets, low cooldowns) but also really good burst (W, R passive, Sheen proc). And his R passive is just... unfair. He buys offensive stats and it rewards him with defense.

And all of this wouldn't be a problem - after all he is a fcking old champion and it has allways been this way - if there weren't all these bruiser items. The introduction of these items was one of the worst decisions that Riot has ever done in my oppinion. Most of these items give bruisers AD and health. And that's why Jax is escalating with them. His passive gives him resistances for offensive stats, but for one, it's only for a brief period of time and on top it's only resistances. Resistances are not that strong if they don't have a large health pool to back them up, same goes with a large health pool without resistances. But guess what. Bruiser items give Jax the needed health, while his passive gives him the resistances and he doesn't sacrefice any damage.