Jax will receive significant mid-scope changes in the next League of Legends season
Jax, one of League of Legends’ most popular fighters, is receiving his long-awaited mid-scope update. This update will make him considerably more powerful and fix any weaknesses in his kit that he presently has.
As a result, the precise release date as well as the anticipated modifications from his mini-rework have been announced. Riot August, League of Legends’ lead champion designer, just released the following changes.
New mini-rework changes to Jax’s kit
Passive
- No Changes
Q
- AP Ratio: 60% >>> Removed
W
- No Changes
E
- Damage: 55-155 (+50% Bonus AD) physical damage >>> 55-175 +4% max health (+100% AP) magic damage
- Bonus damage per attack dodged: 20% of total damage >>> 20% of base damage
R
- Damage: 100/140/180 (+70% AP) >>> 100-150 (+60% AP)
- Added VFX and SFX when the passive attack is ready
- New ACTIVE (w/ New VFX and ANIMATION)
- Jax will swing his lantern around and deal 150-300% (+100% AP) magic damage to all nearby enemies. Once he hits a champion, he will gain 10-40 (+ 0.1 bonus AD) Armor and Magic Resist, plus 14-22 (+0.1 Bonus AD) per champion hit for 8 seconds. While this is active, the passive damage will apply for every 2nd attack instead of 3rd
Riot August noted in his Tweet that Jax is not getting as much of a tweak as other champions for their mid-scope updates. Most of his kit is left untouched, and this update attempts to fix two very specific issues.
The first is that they want to make his ultimate more spectacular, and the second is that they want AP builds to be even more viable. This will become evident as players notice the modifications to his kit.
As a result, it is obvious that the devs intend Jax to have far higher burst potential in League of Legends. Understandably, just two of his abilities are being modified, owing to the fact that he is already in a good shape. His new ult will soon become a ‘spin-to-win’ ability with an entirely new active, VFX, and animation.
These adjustments will make him Jax more adaptable and create far more diversity in the game. Aside from that, it will strengthen the champion potential versus various matchups that rely on smashing the opponent down.
Jax’s update will be available on the game’s PBE server tomorrow. Riot August, on the other hand, has initially confirmed that his new VFX, SFX, and animations may have issues.
The devs are now preparing the formal release of this mini-rework in conjunction with patch 13.1, which will mark the start of Season 13 in January 2023.