Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
The Gragas Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Jax. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Jax helps Gragas perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Jax, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Jax provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Jax on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Jax.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Jax on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Jax does a decent job of protecting Gragas in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Gragas that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Jax is a pretty good teammate for Gragas. By locking into the same team as Gragas, he raises their win rate by 1.7% to 49.6%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Gragas and Jax that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Jax has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be cautious when arranging Jax comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Gragas players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Gragas and Jax together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Jax ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to work well with Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Gragas and Jax synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Jax than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 49.6% helping carry Jax with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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