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Jax Build

Jungle Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 20,143 gamesUpdated

50.7%win rate0.9%pick7.6%ban

Who counters Jax

Every Jungle matchup for Jax, ranked →

How to build Jax

Plated Steelcaps→Trinity Force→Blade of The Ruined King→Wit's End

Plated Steelcaps → Trinity Force → Blade of The Ruined King → Wit's End

56.3% win rate 10% of games 1,310 games
RunesPrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast StandInspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear33% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite98%
Skills
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Leap Strike
314151718
Empower
24578
Counter Strike
19101213
Grandmaster-at-Arms
61116
StartScorchclaw PupHealth PotionScorchclaw Pup, Health Potion
Full Jax build →
50.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.4% over 45,721 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.7% over 20,143 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.6%at Emerald+
0.9%pick rate
7.6%ban rate
▲ Upwas Tier 3 last patch
52.3%under 22 min
49.3%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 30–35m
MASTER+
Jax champion portraitJ JaxvsKindred champion portraitJ Kindred
14 / 7 / 13

Build

Scorchclaw PupMercury's Treads|Trinity Force→Experimental Hexplate→Zhonya's Hourglass→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

EWQWWRWEWEREEQQRQ
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Jax champion portraitJ JaxvsKarthus champion portraitJ Karthus
12 / 2 / 1

Build

Scorchclaw PupMercury's Treads|Trinity Force→Blade of The Ruined King→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

EWQWWRWEWEREEQQ
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Jax champion portraitJ JaxvsViego champion portraitJ Viego
4 / 7 / 8

Build

Scorchclaw PupPlated Steelcaps|Dusk and Dawn→Riftmaker→Zhonya's Hourglass→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

WEQWWRWEWQREEEQRQ

Runes

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

Most popular 51.9% win rate · 33% of games · 6,402 games
PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
InspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.1% win rate · 17% of games · 3,299 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
DominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 98% of games, 50.8% win rate. No real variation.

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps45%Mercury's Treads41%Berserker's Greaves5%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 51.2% win rate
Jungle pet
Scorchclaw Pup80%
8 of 10 recent games started Scorchclaw Pup

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
3% of games that reach a third item take this path55.6% win rate417 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Jax →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 21,053 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
43% · 51.3% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
39% · 50.2% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
5% · 53.9% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
3% · 56.6% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
3% · 46.2% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 45.8% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Trinity Force+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 43.4% win rate · 541 games
  2. Sundered Sky›Trinity Force+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 42.7% win rate · 480 games
  3. Trinity Force+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 38.4% win rate · 391 games
  4. Trinity Force›Sundered Sky+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 46.2% win rate · 381 games
  5. Sundered Sky›Trinity Force+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 43.0% win rate · 377 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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