Talk:Jax/@comment-79.207.86.246-20120426204733/@comment-4885874-20120426220620

people must be building full retard mode for Jax to be winning the trades late game, Jax only wins very hard if he gets fed early game because he is an assassin that can stick on most of the champions and is tanky enough to not be bursted asap. He also trades very well but definitely not something too powerful.

All in all, if you're having Jax in your game and you're anything other than an botlane AD and you don't help him snowball his lane, you're up for a difficult game, especially if he's counterpicked (see Riven, Garen, Olaf, Renek).

As to why he's bad lategame, he deals about the same % of magic and physical damage so no penetration item is really viable on him (especially since they offer no survivability too). That alone makes him outclassed by several other off-tank/bruisers in the game.

The moment they introduce a both armor pen AND magic pen, preferably % one, item he's gonna be competitively viable, cause he won't be shut down late game.