Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
The stats shown here emphasize some influential Taliyah versus Jax matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences between the two. Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jax’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Jax..
Taliyah normally has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Jax. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually fairs equally well when facing off against Jax, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Taliyah makes an ok counter to Jax.
While Taliyah does have a lower winrate compared to Jax, when on opposite teams, Taliyah also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Taliyah into Jax.
Moreover, Taliyah also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jax. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Jax matchups, Jax is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter for Jax. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Taliyah against Jax.
To learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah to counter Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Jax. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Taliyah versus Jax build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Taliyah included at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Jax than with most other common item sets. In fact, Taliyah had an average win rate of 49.9% when playing against Jax with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Jax as Taliyah, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Taliyah vs Jax counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Jax as Taliyah are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.