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Jax: AD or AP?

Creator: DaSzab January 4, 2011 6:37pm
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My clan and I are having a debate over whether Jax should stack Attack Damage or Ability Power. I've seen good builds for both of them, but I don't know which one is actually better. Thoughts?
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I think overall AP is much better. Although Hybrid is very stable, too. Wait for someone a bit more qualified to speak :)

Although I really enjoy Nashor's Tooth, Rageblade, and Rylai's on him.

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Hybrid. ****ing pain to go against. Hits like a truck, and is durable as one as well. Auto-Ban on Jax in three's >_>
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I go pure AP (no rageblade), it's ridiculous. Pure AP damage items also tend to give you survivability. I throw in 1 Nashor's Tooth for AS to proc my Ulti. Lots of survivability (HP + MP) and damage output. When you have high amounts of AP combined with a passive (stacking auto-attack) that deals damage scaling of AP, it is the way to go if you want to constantly nuke people. Just like AP TF is better because his passive Stacked Deck. I like to get an early Catalyst for lane survivability. This is in 5's of course.

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I agree more with Scrax - AP/AS is ridiculous. He just starts pumping out so much damage...
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Thanks for your input, everyone! I tried an Ability Power and Attack Speed build in a match, and I did far better than I did with an attack damage build. It feels weird gearing a warrior the way one would gear a mage, but I can't argue with results.
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PFP made me so damn curious, I have never seen or played a straight up full AP jax.. :o....

Personally DaSzab, I really like AD/LS jax..

I build him like this:

Doran's Shield, Ninja Tabi, Guinsoo's Rageblade, Frozen Mallet, Bloodthirster, and finish it off with either a Mejai's Soulstealer or Madred's Bloodrazor
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Wow, hell no. Jax should stay away from Bloodthirster and get himself a Hextech Gunblade instead! Seriously great item on him.
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yeah hextech is great too! I just prefer building him AD, Rageblade and Bloodthirster has great synergy :P, plus frozen mallet is my slowing monster.
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I'm going to be re-writing my published Jax build soon, since I got an awesome build from one of my clanmates and he gave me permission to use it. It's a hybrid AD/AP build, and it works like a charm. Watch this space.

*edit* And it's done!
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