Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
The stats shown on this page show some vital Jax against Akshan matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akshan’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Akshan..
Jax normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Akshan. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Jax usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Akshan, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Jax makes an ok counter to Akshan.
While Jax does have a higher winrate compared to Akshan, when they face off with one another, Jax also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Jax into Akshan.
Moreover, Jax has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akshan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Jax vs Akshan matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Jax is a decent counter to Akshan. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Jax against Akshan.
To truly master Jax in order to counter Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax typically gets a similar amount of CS as Akshan. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Jax versus Akshan build include Divine Sunderer, Frozen Heart, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Jax combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Akshan than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Jax had an average win rate of 50.0% battling Akshan with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Akshan as Jax, Jax players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Jax vs Akshan matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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