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.
Galio cannot traverse walls with Justice Punch.
Galio moves slower when he is charging Shield of Durand.
Hero's Entrance can be interrupted before Galio jumps into the air.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some critical Jax vs. Galio counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Galio’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Galio..
Jax typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Galio. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jax usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Galio, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Jax makes an ok counter for Galio.
While Jax does have a lower win rate compared to Galio, when facing one another, Jax also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Jax into Galio.
Additionally, Jax also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Galio. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jax vs Galio matchups, Galio is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Jax is a somewhat poor counter for Galio. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jax against Galio.
To truly master Jax in order to counter Galio during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind 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 racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Galio. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Jax versus Galio build include Blade of The Ruined King, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jax used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Galio than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when playing against Galio with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Galio 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 rune sets players picked for Jax vs Galio counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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