Kayle vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Kayle
based on 7,604 Kayle vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Jax
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Advice to Win Against Jax
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Kayle vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some significant Kayle against Jax counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jax’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Jax..
Kayle typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Jax. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayle and Jax
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Who is Better, Kayle or Jax?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kayle usually loses when facing off against Jax, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Kayle makes a bad counter for Jax.
While Kayle does have a lower winrate than Jax, when facing one another, Kayle also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kayle into Jaxas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jax. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Jax matchups, Jax is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a bad counter to Jax. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kayle in order to counter Jax during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Jax. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kayle versus Jax build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kayle combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Jax than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kayle had an average winrate of 47.9% when countering Jax with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Jax as Kayle, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kayle vs Jax LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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