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 you are struck by Fear Beyond Death, do your best to avoid falling below the execution threshold (25% of your Maximum Health) until the effect times out.
Urgot relies heavily on blasting opponents with his legs, which have their own cooldowns and only detonate when he attacks in the direction they are facing. Avoid getting hit by multiple.
Urgot can deal and absorb tremendous amounts of damage with Purge, but slows himself while firing.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several vital Jax versus Urgot counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between these two champions. Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Urgot’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Urgot..
Jax usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Urgot. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jax usually fairs equally well when facing off against Urgot, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Jax makes an ok counter for Urgot.
While Jax does have a higher winrate than Urgot, when facing one another, Jax also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Jax into Urgot.
Furthermore, Jax also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Urgot. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting 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 Urgot matchups, Urgot is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Jax is a decent counter to Urgot. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jax against Urgot.
If you would like to truly master Jax to counter Urgot during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax most often picks up less CS as Urgot. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Jax versus Urgot build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Jax combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Urgot than with most other common item sets. In fact, Jax boasted an average winrate of 50.0% battling Urgot with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Urgot as Jax, you should use 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 used for Jax vs Urgot clashes, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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