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.
Be careful when fighting Ivern alone if he has Daisy ready to help!
Ivern's brush has a long duration. Watch out for ambushes!
Ivern can be deceptively slippery. Be careful chasing him too far.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some critical Jax vs. Ivern counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ivern’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ivern. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Jax typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Ivern. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jax usually loses when playing against Ivern, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Jax makes a bad counter for Ivern.
While Jax does have a lower winrate than Ivern, when facing one another, Jax also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Jax into Ivern.
Moreover, Jax has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ivern. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jax vs Ivern matchups, Ivern 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 teamfights.
Jax is a terribly counter for Ivern. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Jax against Ivern.
If you would like to truly master Jax in order to counter Ivern during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax on average racks up much more CS relative to Ivern. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Jax versus Ivern build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Jax combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Ivern than with many other common builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when countering Ivern with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Ivern as Jax, Jax players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Jax vs Ivern counters, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ivern as Jax are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.