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.
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several significant Jax versus Blitzcrank counter statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Blitzcrank. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Jax typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Blitzcrank. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jax usually fairs equally well when playing against Blitzcrank, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Jax makes an ok counter for Blitzcrank.
While Jax does have a higher winrate than Blitzcrank, when facing one another, Jax also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Jax into Blitzcrank.
Moreover, Jax has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jax vs Blitzcrank matchups, Jax is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Jax is a decent counter to Blitzcrank. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Jax against Blitzcrank.
If you would like to truly master Jax to counter Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax typically picks up much more CS relative to Blitzcrank. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling 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 many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Jax versus Blitzcrank build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Jax combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Blitzcrank than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when countering Blitzcrank with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Blitzcrank as Jax, Jax players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Jax vs Blitzcrank counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.9% win rate overall.
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