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.
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
The Jax Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Jax perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Jax is an ally to Swain, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Swain does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played alongside Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Jax plays with Swain on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Swain does a poor job of covering Jax in teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Jax that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Swain is a decent ally for Jax. By playing on the same side as Jax, he increases their win rate by 1.6% to 52.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Jax and Swain that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Jax. That means Jax players must be very careful when enlisting Swain comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Jax players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Jax and Swain together, you probably will not be providing your team much attack damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Swain teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Jax in order to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Jax and Swain synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jax included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Swain than with many other typical builds. In fact, Jax had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing alongside Swain with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Swain with Jax are displayed for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.