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.
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.
The Jax Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gragas helps Jax perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Jax plays on the same team as Gragas, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This could signal that Gragas supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played alongside Gragas on the same side, 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 Gragas.
Moreover, when Jax plays with Gragas on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Gragas does a poor job of covering Jax in team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Jax that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Gragas is a below average teammate for Jax. By locking into the same team as Jax, he decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 49.6%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Jax and Gragas that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Jax. That means Jax players don't need to be careful when enlisting Gragas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Jax players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Jax and Gragas together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gragas ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Jax to work well with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Jax and Gragas synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jax bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Gragas than with many other common builds. In fact, Jax had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Jax players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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