Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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 Irelia Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Irelia sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Jax. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Jax helps Irelia perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia is an ally to Jax, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Jax doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played with Jax on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Jax. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Jax.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Jax on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Jax does a decent job of covering Irelia in teamfights.
There is no ideal synergy for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, Jax is a very typical teammate for Irelia. By playing on the same side as Irelia, he improves their win rate by 0.3% to 50.1%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Irelia and Jax that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Jax has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Jax allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Irelia players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Irelia and Jax together, you will not be giving your side enough protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Jax teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Irelia in order to work well with Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Irelia and Jax synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Jax than with many other common item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Jax with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Jax with Irelia are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.