User blog comment:Hardly a Notion/Jax/@comment-3014924-20111006080554

It's weird, but since I changed my Jax runes change, I tend to do better in 5*5 than 3*3.

I don't do that great in 3*3. I'm have a very strong Jax lategame and I need to be farmed up for that. Some characters have a better early than my Jax.

You wanna know who I struggle against early game? Akali, Xin are two names that come into my mind. Mind you, late game, I can wait Akali into her clouds and kill her as can I kill Xin with ease, but that's not what make a game win or lose.

Akali got a good magic damage burst. Jax need MR but he usually starts with tabi+Gunblade. So Akali hits him hard. He also need to AA in a row to charge his ulti. What Akali counters with her clouds => a good Akali can manage to zone me out and stops me from farming.

Xin is good early character. His dash + 3 talon strikes + AS will grant Jax a stun but the damage taken vs damage dealt is in Xin's favor. And Xin passively heals. So technically speaking, I hate the top lane against a non hard pushing Xin.

I've lost once to a Tryndamere too, but on that one, I was incompetent (he killed me once with utter luck -went lvl 6 right before he died-). He snowballed off of that by jungling+lane and farmed way up of me.

Morde could be a problem too but I haven't played against a Mord in 3*3.

Last but not least: List of 3*3 chars that I find a lot stronger than Jax: Singed-Udyr. Even Mundo is annoying as hell.