Jax Build Guide

Jax Build

Table of Contents

Abilities

1

Masteries

2

Skill Point Allocation

3

Item Build

4

Jungle Path

5

Your Spells and You

6

Opponents and Allies

7

• Abilities

  [spell=Equipment Mastery]

  Bulks you up just by buying AD/AP items.

  Leap Strike

  1st and most important skill.

  Empower

  2nd and deadly skill for killing squishies.

  Counter Strike

  3rd and good when facing other autoattackers.

  Relentless Assault

  0st, your signature move. This is what makes Jax OP. Remember to use it's active.

• Masteries

  9/21/0
  http://leaguecraft.com/masteries/0112400100000001030421330301000000000000000
  for smite and late game ownage
  
  0/21/9
  http://leaguecraft.com/masteries/0000000000000001030421330301013040001000000
  for exp and jungle buff

• Skill Point Allocation

  JUNGLE
  
  Get
  LVL SKILL
  1 Counter Strike
  2 Empower
  3 Counter Strike
  4,5 Leap Strike
  6 Relentless Assault
  Take Relentless Assault whenever possible
  MAX Leap Strike
  NEXT Empower
  PUT 2 POINTS, THEN MAX LAST Counter Strike
  
  LANING
  
  Leap Strike > Empower > Counter Strike
  
  get just 1 lvl of Counter Strike early game unless you are facing against a team with a lot of physicals.

• Item Build

  EARLY GAME
  Start by buying:
  
  Cloth Armor
  5x Health Potion
  
  After returning from your first jungle expedition, you should have about 470gold. Buy
  Vampiric Scepter
  - Vital for a good jungle
  
  Wait a bit at fountain then buy
  1x Health Potion
  
  MID GAME
  
  Get items in the following order
  
  Ninja Tabi
  
  Bilgewater Cutlass
  - Efficient chasing/ catching heros
  - Lifesteal lets you farm for longer periods of time
  
  Guinsoo's Rageblade
  - Helps you build your ulti stacks quickly
  - Gives good health
  - Good damage and AP
  - Allows you to knock down towers like a bulldozer
  
  LATE GAME
  
  Guinsoo's Rageblade
  
  Hextech Gunblade
  - spell vamp works well because three of jax's skills does a high amount of magic dmg
  
  [item=Rylai's Scepter]
  
  This is my core build but feel free to mix it up.
  
  Other good OFFENSIVES
  
  Atma's Impaler
  - good health boost
  - crit/armor allows you to pwn other carries
  
  Trinity Force or Lich Bane
  - sheen procs work great with jax's low CD skills
  - MS is good for placing stuns and chasing/escaping
  
  Other good DEFENSIVES
  
  Banshee's Veil
  - good health boost
  - protection from spells
  
  [item=force of nature]
  - makes spells virtually useless against you
  - MS is good.
  - Insane health regen allows you to stay in the field for as long as you please
  
  NOT RECOMMENDED
  
  Why choose...
  [item=Rylai's Scepter] instead of Frozen Mallet
  - 660 health - 760 health
  - 80 AP - 20 AD
  - 145g cheaper
  - Slows come from your spells which means it's applied from Leap Strike. This is important when chasing because waiting for the first auto attack may be too late. Also the 80AP is just better compared to 20AD. Debate.
  
  Guardian Angel
  - Ask yourself thess 2 qns if buying GA.
  Is the rest of your team going to be dead when you revive? Yes? Then don't buy it.
  Are the opponents mainly casters that have to blow all their spells to bring you down? Yes? Maybe buy it.
  IMO GA seems weak for it's price.

• Jungle Path

  START
  
  Put 1 point into Counter Strike, this ability is crucial, without it you can't solo BLUE at LVL 1
  
  GO TO
  
  BLUE GOLEM eat Health Potion(use Smite)
  
  WOLVES eat Health Potion
  
  WRAITHS eat Health Potion
  
  SMALL GOLEM eat Health Potion only if you are really dying. Save it otherwise. (use Smite)
  
  TELEPORT HOME
  
  Buy Vampiric Scepter then head down to
  
  RED LIZARD eat Health Potion. Smite will be coming just off cooldown for the last hit.
  your blue buff should expire by after you kill RED LIZARD
  
  WRATHS
  
  WOLVES
  
  TELEPORT HOME
  
  Help out a lane or continue to jungle until lvl 6, and continue to hog the blue buff.
  
  Remember to help gank.
  
  WHY JUNGLE?
  Jax has a weak laning phase. If he gets bullied then, or dies a few times, his late game is hampered.
  Bypass that and the stress of fighting opponents that can think and kill creeps that are just mindless bots.
  
  DISCLAIMER
  
  Summoner level 21 is recommended/necessary for jungle jax. You need the full defense talent tree and at a good set of runes to pull this off. Jax is not as good as people like Warwick or Shaco at jungling but he is decent.

• Your Spells and You

  Counter Strike
  2
  3
  4,5
  6 Relentless Assault
  
  Leap Strike
  - Ambush
  - Escape
  - Pure damage. If you two are just gonna stand there and slug it out, use leap strike for some burst.
  - Plan escapes by timing your creep wave
  - Escape by using your allies/wards
  - Jumping past tanks to get to the soft squishies.
  - Not a initiating skill. Allow your tank to go in first.
  
  Empower
  - Use it to keep Guinsoo's Rageblade stacks
  - Last hitting
  - Spam this key constantly in a fight
  - Resets auto-attack timer, allows you to hit twice consecutively
  
  Counter Strike
  - Don't spam it just because it popped out
  - Get the right position, jax is naturally fast so don't worry about not being able to catch up.
  - use right after a leap strike
  
  Relentless Assault
  - count your strokes
  - minimize the hits required to kill something

• Opponents and Allies

  TOUGH FIGHTS
  
  Singed
  Rammus
  Zilean
  
  FREE KILLS
  
  Shaco
  Twitch
  Veigar
  
  GOOD ALLIES
  
  Nunu
  People who can stun/disable. Hitting unconscious hero is just great for jax.