How do I gank with Jax?

wolfclaw3812·8/12/2019, 2:10:34 AM·1 votes·1,705 views

Jax is one of those monsters: no one likes them. Jax Early game, his team hates him. No ganking. Runs away from enemy a lot. Gets killed a lot. Sometimes underleveled. Mid game, both teams hate him. Jax is never there to help turn the tables on an overextended enemy laner, but he helps snowball. Emphasis on helps. He can't do it by himself. Late game, the enemy team hates him. Can't duel him, can't chase him, can't stop him. At least... that's what I've been told. Here's my personal experience with him. Early game, I'm stomped all over by the enemy jungler LeeSin RekSai XinZhao Poppy KaynMasterYi who seems to think my jungle is their home. I need to gank lanes to pull in favors from my laners to help collapse on him, but I can't gank lanes without dying, and then my laner gets mad at me. Then they're killed by the enemy jungler, who gets even more fed and completely ignores the fact that it's my jungle. This is an endless loop until we lose. Mid game, everyone is everywhere, no one is in their lanes, there's nowhere and no one for me to gank, even as my team is yelling at me to gank over voice chat(premades) and text chat(solo queue). Late game... well it's not really ganking if I walk down my lane and fight them, is it? And then I get cc'ed and die My question is, how do I gank with Jax, especially in the early game?

1 Comments

WoonStruck8/12/2019, 2:23:57 AM2 votes

I found success with Jax in the jungle since season 1. He was never considered a viable jungler until more recent seasons.

You basically just farm and gank top/bot. Mid if they're overextended.

Trust, he was way worse in the jungle back in the day. All you need to do is hold your Q and E unless its a free kill. Save your Q for their escape/flash. Use E to force it when you get in melee.

Be sure to auto->W...don't empower your Q or use W as your first auto attack. You're wasting 100+ damage that way.