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Jax Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 66,391 gamesUpdated

49.4%win rate3.0%pick7.6%ban

Who counters Jax

Every Top matchup for Jax, ranked →

How to build Jax

Plated Steelcaps→Trinity Force→Sundered Sky→Zhonya's Hourglass

Plated Steelcaps → Trinity Force → Sundered Sky → Zhonya's Hourglass

57.0% win rate 11% of games 3,920 games
RunesPrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast StandResolveBone PlatingUnflinching40% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite72%
Skills
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Leap Strike
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Empower
34578
Counter Strike
19101213
Grandmaster-at-Arms
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Jax build →
49.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.7% over 153,286 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.4% over 66,391 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.4%at Emerald+
3.0%pick rate
7.6%ban rate
▼ Downwas Tier 1 last patch
49.7%under 22 min
49.2%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Jax champion portraitT JaxvsRumble champion portraitT Rumble
7 / 1 / 7

Build

Mercury's Treads|Trinity Force→Black Cleaver→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

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Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Jax champion portraitT JaxvsFiora champion portraitT Fiora
5 / 6 / 7

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Trinity Force→Stridebreaker→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

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Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Jax champion portraitT JaxvsMordekaiser champion portraitT Mordekaiser
7 / 6 / 2

Build

Mercury's Treads|Trinity Force→Sundered Sky→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

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Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 48.9% win rate · 40% of games · 25,354 games
PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
ResolveBone PlatingUnflinching
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 48.3% win rate · 14% of games · 8,961 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishSecond WindUnflinching
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite72%49.8%49,379 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport19%47.9%13,005 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps57%Mercury's Treads30%Ionian Boots of Lucidity5%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 50.3% win rate

Jax build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Zhonya's Hourglass1st
  2. Trinity Force2nd
  3. Sundered Sky3rd
5% of games that reach a third item take this path57.4% win rate1,666 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Jax →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 66,443 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
56% · 50.7% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
30% · 50.2% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
5% · 55.0% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 35.1% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
1% · 57.5% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
1% · 56.7% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Trinity Force+Plated Steelcaps6% of games · 37.9% win rate · 3,927 games
  2. Trinity Force›Sundered Sky+Plated Steelcaps5% of games · 47.6% win rate · 3,255 games
  3. Trinity Force›Blade of The Ruined King+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 45.8% win rate · 1,861 games
  4. Trinity Force+Mercury's Treads3% of games · 38.6% win rate · 1,729 games
  5. Sundered Sky›Trinity Force+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 46.7% win rate · 1,431 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Jax against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Jax's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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