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Champion Spotlight[]
Recommended Items[]
Tips[]
- Playing As
Jax
- Jax can
Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape. - Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as
Guinsoo's Rageblade and 
Hextech Gunblade.
- Playing Against Jax
- Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking
consecutively drastically lowers his damage output. - Jax can
dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Tricks[]
- Ability Usage
- Relentless Assault
- At level 18, Jax can reach capped attack speed (2.5 attacks per second) with 8 stacks of Relentless Assault and 145% additional attack speed.
- The attack speed bonus increases every 3 levels. Thus, it may be worth it to hold off a fight until you reach the next 'stage' if you are close to reaching it.
- At level 18, Jax can reach capped attack speed (2.5 attacks per second) with 8 stacks of
- Leap Strike
- Level this first if your enemy is very mobile or is a controller/ranged champion.
- However, this should be maxed second as the damage from
Empower is more significant.
- However, this should be maxed second as the damage from
- Against mobile champs, try to leap to them only after they use their escape spells.
- If you have spare wards, it can be useful to set them up in good spots to dodge skillshots or leave a team fight when you are low health, preferably across walls.
- When you are roaming, be sure to have a ward to hop to in case of an enemy ambush.
- Use this with Empower to secure last hits or for a quick hit-and-run burst.
- Level this first if your enemy is very mobile or is a controller/ranged champion.
- Empower
- This ability should be maxed first as its damage will increase while lowering its cooldown, making Jax even stronger in extended fights.
- In the early levels, use the empowered attack to ensure the kill on minions (especially the siege minion.)
- If there are two minions near death, kill one with the lowest health and activate Empower to reset you autoattack to kill the other one.
- Empower doesn't affects structures but you can activate it for the autoattack reset and
Sheen proc if you have the item.
- Counter Strike
- Max this last because it is mostly a utility spell, has low base damage and the stun duration is flat. However, many people take this ability at level 1 for a few reasons:
- Leap Strike is lackluster without your other abilities and Empower requires Jax to be in melee range which is dangerous early on.
- Many champions can do more damage with their autoattacks than abilities at level one. Since Counter Strike blocks autoattacks, it allows Jax to out trade enemies and stay safe until he has his other abilities.
- Minions attacks are also blocked which allows Jax to simply walk up to his opponent, ignoring minion damage, and hit them with a fully charged Counter Strike.
- Activate it only if your target is near enough and you are sure they can't escape.
- In this case, leap to them before the effect ends.
- In they use long cooldown escapes like
Flash or 
Quicksilver Sash, back off and wait for your cooldowns to refresh.
- In this case,
- With some practice, Jax can stun most of the enemy team using this ability and Leap Strike.
- Counter Strike also reduces damage from AoE abilities (including
Requiem) which can save you during team fights and skirmishes.
- Max this last because it is mostly a utility spell, has low base damage and the stun duration is flat. However, many people take this ability at level 1 for a few reasons:
Grandmaster's Might
- Use the active effect to protect you from important bursts of damage.
- Land two basic attacks on minions then leap to your foe and use Empower with your third hit of Grandmaster's Might for a massive burst of damage.
- Wait before using the active effect if you will receive invulnerability buffs, or AD–AP buffs to get the most out of the ability.
- Rune Usage
- Item Usage
Starting Game:
Corrupting Potion is the favorite item for the first minutes of the lane as it gives health and mana regeneration pretty useful against mana pool or harasser champs.
Doran's Shield is another more defensive option, it don't gives mana regen but it gives health and health regen that is very useful against counters. Be careful with your mana pool.- Movement speed is essential for Jax so always buy
Boots of Speed before early items.
Early Game:
- Sheen can help you with your mana pool and his other effects help during battle, in early levels it don't gives good additional damage but during that time Jax only should try to farm with it.
- For sustain
Bilgewater Cutlass can help you to stay in the line more longer, the active also help him to escape or attack. - Harassing champs are a mess for Jax, sustain builds like
Spectre's Cowl are very useful to not leave the line early and survive the damage output until the help comes.
Mid Game:
Mercury's Treads if one or more CCs give you to the enemy team focus.
Trinity Force is a core item for Jax as it gives most of he need especially the bonus 40% AS, 20% CDR, and the Spellblade effect that synergize well with Empower dealing massive damage against weak champs.
- After build it, buy some health items like
Randuin's Omen.
- After build it, buy some health items like
Frozen Mallet help Jax with his defenses and also helps him to stay close near his enemies, is necessary in all builds defensive or offensive.- Hextech Gunblade makes Jax hard to kill when he lands basic attacks against enemies thanks to omnivore (+15% drain effect) also it gives 40 Bonus AD and 80 AP that is perfect for hybrid champs like Jax.
- Use the active to stay close to your target (if you don't have slows, escape or kill weak champs.
- Use the active to stay close to your target (if you don't have
- Guinsoo's Rageblade's the right hand for Jax, this item was made for him, it gives flat AS, AD, AP and the previous amounts increase with basic attacks 6 times that works like a enhancer for Relentless Assault, add to that the Guinsoo's Rage effect that will make Jax launch his enhanced attack every two attacks instead of three and you have created a monster.
- Also the bonus magic damage in each attack stacks with Empower, Grandmaster's Might and works with Guinsoo's Rage.
- Remember this item is pure offensive so it don't allows Jax to stay to much time with out defensive or drain items.
- Also the bonus magic damage in each attack stacks with
Late Game:
- At this time you only will complete your last items and start to build
Guardian Angel to become more tanky and survive in a team battle despite if your are offensive or defensive, the enemy team will ignore you or they will attak you until you dead but your team help you to escape.
- Don't underestimate your enemies, you're not god, and most of the time you should fight with your team in good conditions.
- Countering
- Jax has weak early game picking harassing champs allows to prevent him from farming with out take a dead risk.
- Jax shines in prolonged battles so apply the strategy of attack and run.