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[quote=BluAnimal][quote=H4xDefender] Jax is free win if you don't get camped up to 1500, 1500 is kinda joke but players do get marginally better there. [/quote] That's why I'm trying so many different ways to build him. Currently I can get by with stacking lifesteal and [[warmog's armor]] but that's not gonna get me far past 1500. Any suggestions on a late game build besides [[trinity force]] and [[hextech gunblade]]? Also if you were watching the Championship what did you think of Shy and Stanley's Jax? I honestly don't understand the [[trinity force]] rush without buying any sustain.[/quote]

[quote=Minho][img=http://i.imgur.com/Js4gB.png] :/[/quote]

[quote=ReprobateReality][quote=BluAnimal] [quote=H4xDefender] Jax is free win if you don't get camped up to 1500, 1500 is kinda joke but players do get marginally better there. [/quote] That's why I'm trying so many different ways to build him. Currently I can get by with stacking lifesteal and [[warmog's armor]] but that's not gonna get me far past 1500. Any suggestions on a late game build besides [[trinity force]] and [[hextech gunblade]]? Also if you were watching the Championship what did you think of Shy and Stanley's Jax? I honestly don't understand the [[trinity force]] rush without buying any sustain. [/quote] Rushing [[trinity force]] is high risk, high reward. It is high in reward because of the high damage output. Hybrid items such as [[Trinity force]] and [[hextech gunblade]] are primarily a mid-game items. They do not scale well late. But since they are such great mid-game items, they help you snowball into the late-game. On the topic of sustain, [[trinity force]] can be rushed if you can farm well as it is the most expensive item in the game. Basically, you must not die, so play passive-aggressively. It is all depending on how good you are as a player. By good, I mean playing smart, such as not pushing to the enemy's turret when their jungler is mia and always warding your lane.[/quote]

[quote=BluAnimal][quote=Minho] [img=http://i.imgur.com/Js4gB.png] :/ [/quote] Obvious troll is not so obvious? :p I've always preferred to get either [[wriggle's lantern]] or (preferably) [[bilgewater cutlass]]. Although I've been buying both recently for the massive lifesteal and farming it allows. As for the [[trinity force]] a lot of the times I've just been skipping over it completely and grabbing either a [[warmog's armor]] or [[frozen mallet]], although I miss the [[sheen]] aspect of it. As for Shy he didn't do very well for rushing a [[trinity force]]. I would have grabbed [[heart of gold]] or [[philosopher's stone]] if I were him, and then grab sustain because by the time he was actually able to fight (very late game) the [[trinity force]] had little impact against [[shen]].[/quote]

[quote=H4xDefender]I only watched shy's Jax 2 games, it was average. He built extremely poorly when behind and acceptably when ahead. As for stanley, he built very intelligently given the fact he was so behind. Maknoon's Jax was pretty good skillwise, although I don't remember his exact build. As for lategame builds, you want a giants belt before finishing ga. My standard build is bilgewater triforce giants belt gunblade ga. after that its situational, although I usually build maw somewhere after that 90% of the time. If you build ga before giants its super cost INefficient with your ult on. Wriggle's is something i personally cannot stand. I only build this against lee sin or riven when they show they are good. tabi wriggles vs lee and riven is free win. If you know you cannot finish triforce before 25 minutes buy EITHER heart of gold or philo stone but ONLY ONE. Bilgewater is mandatory. EDIT: And this is gonna sound cliche since everybody says it but... the pros built incorrectly, and even at my elo I am a better Jax player then stanley and shy, at least by the play they showed. Maknoon is good though, I have to hand it to him. I can't definitively say I am better then he is.[/quote]

[quote=BluAnimal]@H4X I felt that Shy did very poorly and didn't adapt at all while he was behind [[shen]]. In his position I would have bought [[heart of gold]] and tried taking jungle creeps every chance I had. There wasn't a lot of his build or playstyle I could agree with, I respect him as a player nonetheless, but maybe not as a [[jax]] player. How do you feel about [[doran's blade]]s when behind? I believe it only prolongs [[bilgewater cutlass]] which is needed for early game. [icon=taric size=64][icon=caitlyn size=48][b]10/14/12 - 11:30PM[/b] [color=#0080ff]Blue Team[/color] Top: [[volibear]] Mid: [[evelynn]] Jungle: [[pantheon]] (Too Stacked) Support: [[Taric]] (Me) AD Bot: [[caitlyn]] [color=#800080]Purple Team[/color] Top: [[garen]] Mid: [[ahri]] Jungle: [[riven]] Support: [[blitzcrank]] AD Bot: [[vayne]] [spoiler=Purchase Order] 0:00 [[faerie charm]] [[sight ward]] 8:00 [[philosopher's stone]] [[sight ward]] 13:00 [[heart of gold]] [[boots of speed]] 17:00 [[kindlegem]] [[vision ward]] 22:00 [[ruby crystal]] [[mercury's treads]] [[vision ward]] [[oracle's elixir]] 26:00 [[aegis of the legion]] [[vision ward]] 32:00 [[shurelya's reverie]] [[vision ward]] [[glacial shroud]] 38:00 [[frozen heart]] [/spoiler] [b][color=#00ffff]Victory! +11[/color][/b] [img=http://imageshack.us/a/img163/8002/taric34oct15.png][/quote]

[quote=H4xDefender]Doran's are amazing if your lane is close. If it is close I will buy 2 or 3 and proceed to stomp lane. It is really a judgment call. I almost always buy 1 just for that little boost.[/quote]

[quote=Xeronn][[Pantheon]] build. uhh.. ok o.o[/quote]

[quote=BluAnimal][icon=jax size=64][b]10/16/12[/b] [color=#0080ff]Blue Team[/color] Top: [[jax]] (Me) Mid: [[akali]] Jungle: [[malphite]] Support: [[sona]] AD Bot: [[ezreal]] (TopDogJW) [color=#800080]Purple Team[/color] Top: [[vladimir]] Mid: [[evelynn]] Jungle: [[maokai]] Support: [[taric]] AD Bot: [[graves]] [b]Notes[/b] No commentary really, this time. [[vladimir]] top scared me in champion select but the person I was switching [[malphite]] with only owned Jax. So anyways I remembered a really simple thing: Vlad's CDs suck at early levels. He gets a double kill at level 3 from me and Malphite derpdiving, but I quickly come back after 6 being able to [[leap strike]] [[empower]] third hit of [[grandmaster's might]] him down and down. [[maokai]] wasn't a bad jungler either, but the only thing keeping them in the game was [[evelynn]] who I managed to stun each game. [b][color=#00ffff]Victory! +16[/color][/b] [img=http://imageshack.us/a/img838/8052/jax113oct16.png][/quote]

[quote=BluAnimal]Pro Blu. Accidentally edits last post of a game into a different game. Guess I'm conserving space :p Oh well, pretend that post counts as 2 games?[/quote]