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.
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
The Jax Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Jax sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Alistar helps Jax perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jax is paired with Alistar, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Alistar supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Alistar.
Additionally, when Jax plays with Alistar on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Jax during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Jax that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Alistar is a below average ally for Jax. By being on the same team as Jax, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 49.7%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Jax and Alistar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Jax. That means you should be careful when arranging Alistar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, Jax players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Jax and Alistar together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of AP. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Jax to pair well with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Jax and Alistar synergy build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Jax combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Alistar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jax had an average win rate of 49.7% helping carry Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Jax players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
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