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.
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Jax against Master Yi counter statistics that can help you realize the differences between these two champions. As an example, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Master Yi..
Jax often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Master Yi. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jax usually wins when trying to fight Master Yi, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Jax makes a good counter for Master Yi.
While Jax does have a higher winrate than Master Yi, when facing one another, Jax also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Jax into Master Yi.
Additionally, Jax also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jax vs Master Yi matchups, Jax is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Jax is an above average counter for Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Jax against Master Yi.
If you would like to truly master Jax in order to counter Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax usually gets much more CS as Master Yi. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy 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, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Jax versus Master Yi build consist of Sterak's Gage, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Jax incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Master Yi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when playing against Master Yi with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Master Yi as Jax, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Jax vs Master Yi fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
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