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Tips on Countering Jax?

Yulen Xoshxius··1 votes·1,184 views

Earlier we fought a team who were alright, but the biggest threat they had was a Jax who essentially carried them. He even was able to kill 4 of us when he was down to 10% hp. So I would like to learn from this and instead of avoiding Jax unless we have the whole team there: How may I counter Jax in the future?

Edit: collected answers: -Get thornnmail or frozen heart. -avoid him when he spins his staff

  • use targetted cc -use casters

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wîndex4 votes

Pressure him all game, wherever he may be. His early game is laughable, and he only wins duels with most duelists post 11. The trick is to keep him down and have the tanks stay on top of his items. Having a frontline is key, and a support that can peel for the adc because after he jumps he is very kiteable. He has to dive straight into your team to do anything so you can use that to your advantage.

Blue Collar Bear3 votes

Jax gains a lot of passive stats, mostly attack speed and resistances.

Frozen Heart and # penetration will help keep him down.

BeatzBoyFTW3 votes

This is just some tips during early game laning phase. Around level 2 or 3, you two guys were off happily cs-ing off minions. At the instance you see Jax uses E early, it is your best warning to back off til the stun goes on cd. Or either Jax did a sudden jump on you with his Q then he starts his E, it's best to try to run away from him til the stun finishes, or if you're playing a mobile champ, like Renekton , dash away from him before you come back to him after his stun finishes.

Btw, Jax is at his most vulnerable point without his E, so this is all I can tell you based on my past experiences versusing top lane Jax.

Yulen Xoshxius1 votes

His E is when he gets that bubble or when he starts spinning things? I was running from him whenever he did either as I understood he was lethal to me.

BeatzBoyFTW1 votes

What bubble? E is his spinning thingy. Avoid that one, then you can dish out tons of damage to him. Just possibly, I mean.

Yulen Xoshxius1 votes

I saw him get like a blue bubble briefly around him briefly

rth22 votes

The bubble is most likely his ult. It kind of looks like an encompassing circle. It gives him bonus defensive stats.

Yulen Xoshxius1 votes

Alright, thanks!

Cenobite Azaziel3 votes

Jesus no one built thornmail. With 3 AA reliant champs. Yi build is awful... and where is rengar Hydra? o.o

Yulen Xoshxius1 votes

I am not sure, our Rengar didn't seem to pay attention well where he decided to try and solo Jax alone, across the map from us, and near their base, and after we already saw he deals no damage to jax and we can't even take him just the two of us. XD But yes: I should have built thornmail.

DaBawesome2 votes

Targeted stuns like Annie and Taric , AOE skills are good too. defensively frozen heart item 3110 and thornmail item 3075 .

TehNACHO2 votes

Mind giving us a link of the game in particular?

Different Jax builds tend to have somewhat different play styles. Raid Boss Jax for example is a bitch to kite thanks to his 3.6 second cool down Leap, whereas duelist Jax is basically an impossible for for most auto attackers to face.

Yulen Xoshxius1 votes

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1697908164/221223765?tab=overview This was the one. For the most part I avoided Jax for most of the game and we killed his allies when they were not near him. It worked pretty well untill he killed 4 of us and destroyed 3 towers, a nexus, and an inhibitor practicly by himself in 30 seconds. XD

TehNACHO2 votes

Ahh yes, that's a duelist build.

Duelist Jax is about creating 1v1 situations, even inside team fights, by isolating Auto Attack reliant targets and disabling your team's main carries. He's strong because Counter Strike will negate the Auto Attack based champions outright, and because he optimized for damage, will likely delete his target quickly if the carry in question is not saved. The main weakness of this build of Jax is how phenomenally squishy he is, and how little CDR he has, making him much easier to kite if you can disengage at least once.

Beating him requires teammates with CC to hold him down for extended periods of time (Heimedinger zone control, Rengar's bola immobilization, Diana's interruptive knock back ability) and burn off the Counter Strike, which opens up a window for your main carries (Master Yi and Vayne) to attack while Jax is so incredibly vulnerable.

Yulen Xoshxius1 votes

He took on 4 of us at once by himself with us focusing him when he was at 5% health. XD Also do you mean the E on Diana that pulls the enemies in?

Gym Leader Yaki2 votes

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Earlier we fought a team who were alright, but the biggest threat they had was a Jax who essentially carried them. He even was able to kill 4 of us when he was down to 10% hp. So I would like to learn from this and instead of avoiding Jax unless we have the whole team there: How may I counter Jax in the future?

Jax is a late game champion. His specialty is countering auto-attack based champions. My recommendation would be to pick an early game caster type champion. I would take Pantheon , Renekton or LeeSin into consideration.

Yulen Xoshxius1 votes

Thanks everyone!

Leti the Yeti1 votes

hes a late game monster it would b advised to not feed him early so his late game doesnt come any time soon...

Grimspeake1 votes

play renektion and dominate him in lane for 20 minutes.

BeatzBoyFTW2 votes

Assuming they can actually see what the enemies pick in a normal game

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