Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
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 stat comparisons shown here underscore several critical Twitch versus Jax counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Twitch’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jax’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Twitch may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Jax..
Twitch often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Jax. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Twitch usually loses when trying to fight Jax, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Twitch makes a poor counter for Jax.
While Twitch does have a lower win rate compared to Jax, when on opposite teams, Twitch also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Twitch into Jax.
Additionally, Twitch also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jax. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Twitch vs Jax matchups, Jax is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Twitch is a garbage counter for Jax. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Twitch against Jax.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Twitch to counter Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Twitch on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Jax. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well 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 surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Twitch versus Jax build consist of Bloodthirster, Runaan's Hurricane, and Kraken Slayer. When Twitch bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Jax than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Twitch boasted an average winrate of 47.9% battling Jax with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Jax as Twitch, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Twitch vs Jax fights, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Jax as Twitch are given for every ranked division. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.