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[14.14] Stefanko's Challenger In Depth Jax Guide

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hi, how viable are the builds for 14.15 and 14.16? and could i get your general opinion on ravenous hydra?

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The builds are still the same pretty much. I'd say ravenous hydra isnt the optimal choice pretty much ever. However if you enjoy playing hydra, you want to try to play on side lane as much as possible, cause you will lack tankiness to teamfight. You also want to try to get advantage by proxying cause you can oneshot wave, and then try to make moves on the map, or try to take enemy jungle camps

Is Botrk viable? What do you build vs tanks?

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I never build botrk right now. Usually vs tanks if you are ahead and game is stable/you can win lane, go trinity and play normally. If game is fast paced and you want to avoid laning, you can rush ravenous hydra, and play to clear waves, you can outsustain tanks damage, and just play to have prio(can look for proxy angles too if enemy jg is botside and you cant get punished for it, and then maybe look to take camps, make a play elsewhere or just keep proxying if there is no play to be made on the map). Generally its really hard to kill tanks as jax in season 14, so its better to just avoid them and get a lead by having better tempo.

Hello. I wanted to aske a few questions about the standard build, especialy the first item. I see many high elo players go titanic first, abusing the wwave clear and damage it gives, which is comparable to triforce at 1 item, and go triforce second with some of them defaulting to it every game and just not rushing tiamat when not needed(wao) i also see some players skip titanic and go for sunder sky second item, to help sidelane dueling and healing for skirmishes. I also see many people not go sterakz second and go sunder for cdr+sustain or jak sho/frozen heart/wits for tankiness

I would like to ask your insighr/opinions on these builds and when shoukd these alterarions. Thanks once again for this guide, personally helped me out a lot!

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Hey, glad i could help. I always go trinity first(sometimes botrk), cause i think it gives your better laning phase stats than titanic as a first item. I would only go tiamat rush if i want to ignore enemy top and go proxy or catch waves and rotate. I'd never rush sund sky, i dont think its the optimal rush on Jax in any game.

Thoughts on Naafiri matchup?

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Havent versed one yet, will update when i do. I think its free matchup from level 2 with lethal tempo, since she has no way to kite your e, so you can q on her off your e cooldown.

Hey, I just wanted to ask what you think about the new rageblade and trinity and if you think they could work on jax. I love your guide btw it helped me go from a bronze 1 a month ago to gold pushing for plat right now.

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Divine is still a must go mythic for Jax as its just the strongest by far. With that build Jax would be too squishy, and Jax needs defensive stats, the only damage only items you can get away with are botrk and hydra. Happy to hear it helped, keep going :)

Amazing guide, went from low master to mid grandmaster with Jax only this season. This helped me a lot.

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Nice, hot

Top Guide! I would like to ask a questione about anti-heal. For the new Jax, what can we build? Thormail (But works only vs auto-attacks)? Morello or Chempunk? But Morello: dealing magic damage applies grievous wounds, and only W, E and the passive of R deals magic damage. And Chempunk: dealing physical damage applies grievous wounds, and only auto-attack and Q deals physical damage. Thanks for the guide!

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Thanks, i generally never build anti-heal unless i need it to match enemy side-lane as then my teammates heal reduction won't help. I let ignite do the job in the lane, and i don't like delaying mythic item spike. Your teammates that do aoe damage should be ones building it. However, since executioner, orb and bramble got buffed to reduce 40% from 25% its okay to rush executioner or bramble if you can't win the lane without them(depending on what feels better in the game), and sit on them till last item, and finish them as the last item.

Good Guide 💯💯🔥🔥

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Appreciate!

Hello.Very nice guide.I would like to ask a question about boots.How come u never run lucidity boots into lanws where mercs arent needed? Steelcaps seem good but ability haste for e would provide more value even into mostly ad comps.cheaper also and summoner spell haste seems even better if u do not run teleport.

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Hey, i tried them many times, but having deffensive stats just feels better and stronger for me, just feels like steelcaps give me more value in lane.

Agreed but from what i see u are not rushing it so oftrn with magical footwear. Or u mean more value out of lane?

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Mb, when i said in lane i meant while im on sidelane, but i prefer them in teamfights too, i feel too glasscannon if i have lucidity boots instead of defensive ones, and Jax needs defensive stats. You also wont always be able to reach with your e, so defensive boots just seem like a better option

Really useful guide, specially for explaining the matchups. Got a few questions about some items tho if youll be kind to explain lol.
I watch ur replays kinda a lot for like a month now.

I see you never build Abyssal Mask which is an item I build often would like to know why you think is not worth it.
What do you think about running BORK with Iceborn Gauntlet?
Also titanic hydra.

Anyways thanks for the guide !!!

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Thanks mate,
there are better magic resist items for Jax, that also give you damage or attack speed, and Abyssal Mask is more of a tank rather than bruiser item, and also isn't really meta item atm.
Divine is just too good of an item to even consider any other mythic on Jax atm.
Also there are better hp items for Jax than titanic hydra, and you generally dont stack that much hp for it to be valuable buy. Jax also already has decent wave clear with his e, so titanic is just not a good option.

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wait isnt shojin spear good on jax?

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I dont find it that good from what i tested, i would only build it if i need hp item, and i dont get good value out of black cleaver or steraks which happens really rarely. It doesnt really give you any noticable cooldown reduction, so i think it definitely doesnt have 3400 gold value.

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