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.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stats shown here highlight some important Jax against Singed matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Singed’s ratio of NaN, showing that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Singed..
Jax often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Singed. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jax usually loses when trying to fight Singed, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Jax makes a bad counter for Singed.
While Jax does have a lower winrate compared to Singed, when they face off with one another, Jax also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Jax into Singed.
Furthermore, Jax also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Singed. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jax vs Singed matchups, Singed is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Jax is a bad counter to Singed. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jax against Singed.
If you would like to truly master Jax to counter Singed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax on average picks up less CS as Singed. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Jax versus Singed build include Guardian Angel, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Jax incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Singed than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average win rate of 47.4% battling Singed with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Singed as Jax, Jax players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Jax vs Singed clashes, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
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