Talk:Jax/@comment-88.186.19.90-20120531224138

I nailed where the problem lies: That resistance bonus on ult is absolutely bullshit: 25 at level 1? Shyvana's was 15 and it got nerfed. Once you reach level 6, even if you are completely denied and underfarmed, you can take almost anyone 1v1 and beat them if you can use your dodge properly.

He's a snowball lategame champ. That's ok, there are champs strong early and champs strong late. His stun after his dodge is justified IMO: he needs some kind of teamfight presence and lack of CC or sustained MS boost would make him incapable of "sticking" to his target, and a CC interrupt is almost necessary for any duelist. He has awesome item synergy, but it's hard to have a champ snowball any other way, the ratio for bonus resist is also justified, since Jax really had a hard time surviving when he didn't have it. Empower cooldown is there to boost his autoattacks to make up for the shortwoming of not building crit lategame.

But if a champ can snowball, there should be a way to prevent him from snowballing, or at least something you should be able to do to prevent him from getting so strong so fast. That's not the case with Jax, because the combination of extremely high resistances with his ult and high damage with Empower, hybrid damage and lack of point-blank weaknesses (if you miss your dodge stun, you're not completely screwed) gives him the ability to out-duel any laner once level 6 is reached regardless of the farming state (of course, if Jax is running 0/5/0, he won't be able to make it). If the opponent builds damage, his investment is swept aside by Grandmaster's Might; if he build resistances, then he isn't a threat to Jax at all, and Jax can start denying/farming freely.