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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Jax versus Lissandra matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lissandra..
Jax normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Lissandra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jax usually wins when facing off against Lissandra, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Jax makes a good counter for Lissandra.
While Jax does have a higher winrate than Lissandra, when on opposite teams, Jax also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Jax into Lissandra.
Additionally, Jax has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jax vs Lissandra matchups, Jax is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Jax is a decent counter for Lissandra. Make sure you focus your actions 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 Lissandra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Jax in order to counter Lissandra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Lissandra. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Jax versus Lissandra build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jax combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Lissandra than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Jax had an average winrate of 51.3% when countering Lissandra with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Lissandra 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 builds that we analyzed for Jax vs Lissandra face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lissandra as Jax are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.