Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some valuable Jax vs. Garen matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the pair. Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Jax normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Jax usually loses when playing against Garen, with a 45.0% win rate. Thus, Jax makes a poor counter for Garen.
While Jax does have a much lower winrate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Jax also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Jax into Garen.
Moreover, Jax has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Jax vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Jax is a garbage counter for Garen. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Jax against Garen.
To learn all of the intricacies of Jax to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Jax versus Garen build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Jax included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Garen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Jax boasted an average win rate of 45.0% battling Garen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Garen as Jax, Jax players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Jax vs Garen counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.0% winrate overall.
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