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.
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
The Jax Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Tristana helps Jax perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jax tries to synergize with Tristana, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Tristana does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played with Tristana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Tristana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Tristana.
Additionally, when Jax plays with Tristana on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Tristana does a decent job of protecting Jax in team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Jax that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Tristana is a very typical ally for Jax. By playing on the same side as Jax, she lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 50.0%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Jax and Tristana that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Tristana has a lower difficulty than Jax. That means Jax players don't need to be careful when lining up Tristana comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Jax and Tristana together, you will not be providing your side enough crowd control. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jax to synergize with Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Jax and Tristana synergy build include Trinity Force, Maw of Malmortius, and Sundered Sky. When Jax combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Tristana than with many other common builds. In fact, Jax had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Tristana with Jax are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.