Akshan vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Akshan
based on 4,479 Akshan vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Jax
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several important Akshan vs. Jax matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jax’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Jax..
Akshan normally has a similar longest killing spree as their opponent does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Jax. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Jax
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Who is Better, Akshan or Jax?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Jax, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a bad counter for Jax.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate than Jax, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Akshan into Jax.
Furthermore, Akshan has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jax. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Jax matchups, Jax is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Akshan is a bad counter for Jax. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Jax. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Akshan versus Jax build consist of Infinity Edge, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan combined at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better when fighting Jax than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Jax with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Jax as Akshan, Akshan players should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Akshan vs Jax LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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