Yasuo vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Yasuo
based on 18,305 Yasuo vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Jax
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Yasuo in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Yasuo vs. Jax matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jax’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Jax..
Yasuo usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Jax. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yasuo and Jax
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Jax?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually loses when facing off against Jax, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Yasuo makes a poor counter to Jax.
While Yasuo does have a lower win rate than Jax, when on opposite teams, Yasuo also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Yasuo into Jaxas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Yasuo 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yasuo 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Yasuo is a somewhat poor counter for Jax. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yasuo against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo to counter Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo on average accumulates more CS as Jax. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Yasuo versus Jax build consist of Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Jax than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average win rate of 48.2% when playing against Jax with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Jax as Yasuo, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Yasuo vs Jax counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
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