Talk:Jax/@comment-186.213.147.73-20121020141951

He is probably the only true Melee AD Carry.

You can buy mostly all items a normal carry would buy, and you will deal higher damage than most ranged AD carries due to multiple steroids (+84% atkspeed, +73 damage on-hit, very low-cooldown autoattack reset). Your burst is huge, your DPS is too.

The problems of AD carry is the need of closing in the opponent, avoiding peel and being resistant enough to make up the short range. Master Yi/Fiora/Xin Zhao/Gangplank/Tryndamere all can close in, but only Jax can negate AA damage, absorve a lot of burst damage and stun. Only Jax can have 230 armor+130 mr even when only itemizing in damage.

Jax is essentialy the best AD carry in the game, EXCEPT by the fact he is melee. He can't poke, he can't(shouldn't) initiate, he will still have the peeling problem. Could a Jax work in place of an AD carry in a strong poke/CC lock team (probably with a few modifications in build, like trinity instead of phantom, wriggle's/gunblade instead of blood and mercury instead of berserker's)?