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.
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some strategic Jax versus Elise counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Elise..
Jax normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Elise. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jax usually wins when trying to fight Elise, with a 51.4% win rate. Therefore, Jax makes a good counter to Elise.
While Jax does have a higher win rate compared to Elise, when facing one another, Jax also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Jax into Elise.
Additionally, Jax also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jax vs Elise matchups, Jax is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Jax is a decent counter to Elise. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Jax against Elise.
To truly master Jax in order to counter Elise 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 listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax most often gets much more CS as Elise. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Jax versus Elise build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jax bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Elise than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jax had an average winrate of 51.4% battling Elise with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Elise as Jax, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Jax vs Elise battles, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Elise as Jax are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.