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Jax
Jax is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
Abilities
- Leap Strike cannot be cast on structures.
- If the target is an enemy champion, Jax will be ordered to basic attack them after the dash ends.
Spell shield will block the damage, including when .
- The empowered attack will trigger but not be consumed nor apply its effects against structures.
- The initial cast and the manual recast count as ability activations for the purposes of on-cast effects such as
Spellblade and stacking .
- Counter Strike will also dodge abilities that can trigger on-hit effects ( , ) which will count towards Counter Strike's increased damage. There are exceptions however.
- The bonus magic damage can be and but it cannot
miss.
- Grandmaster's Might's bonus resistances are calculated both on-cast and will update dynamically every 0.25 seconds over the duration.
Spell shield will only block the bonus damage from the third attack if it is .
- The empowered attack will trigger but not be consumed nor apply its effects against structures and wards.
- Stacks will still be generated when attacking them.
Champion skins
- This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Jax (Collection).
Unmatched in both his skill with unique armaments and his biting sarcasm, Jax is the last known weapons master of Icathia. After his homeland was laid low by its own hubris in unleashing the Void, Jax and his kind vowed to protect what little remained. As magic now rises in the world, this slumbering threat stirs once more, and Jax roams Valoran, wielding the last light of Icathia and testing all warriors he meets to see if any are strong enough to stand beside him…




Patch history
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 685 from 615.
- Health growth increased to 99 from 85.
- Armor growth increased to 4.2 from 3.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 615 from 593.
- Base damage increased to 50 / 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 from 40 / 75 / 110 / 145 / 180.
- Stats
- Attack damage growth increased to 4.25 from 3.38.
- Stats
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
- Base health increased to 593 from 592.8.
- Attack damage growth increased to 3.38 from 3.375.
- Stats
- Mana growth increased to 52 from 32.
- Cooldown reduced to 14 / 12.5 / 11 / 9.5 / 8 seconds from 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8.
- Bug Fix: Damaging with Leap Strike followed by two basic attacks will now properly activate and .
- Indicator added to show recast ability timer.
- Indicator added to show recast ability timer.
- Cooldown reduced to 8 / 7.5 / 7 / 6.5 / 6 seconds from 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6.
- General
- New visual effects.
- Basic attack cleaned up and added some oomph.
- Cleaned up for readability.
- Activation made more visible and fire added to his lamppost.
- Cleaned up and added an indicator for the stun range.
- Cleaned up, added sand particles, and made the third hit more clear and satisfying.
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- New particles over the entire kit.
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- Added stun range indicator to match changes to base.
- Stats
- Base attack damage reduced to 68 from 69.97.
- Base damage reduced to 65 / 105 / 145 / 185 / 225 from 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240.
- New Effect: Ability icon HUD now shows the remaining duration of the ability.
- Passive base damage reduced to 100 / 140 / 180 from 100 / 160 / 220.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the buff could take up to 0.25 seconds to take effect.
- Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 8.5 from 8.374.
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
- Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 70 from 61.97.
- Base armor increased to 36 from 27.04.
- Base damage increased to 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 from 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230.
- Minimum base damage increased to 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 / 155 from 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150.
- General
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he was causing games to crash under specific circumstances.
- Removed: On-hit bonus damage procing against wards.
- New Effect: Now grants 50 bonus range.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a number of visual bugs with Counter Strike across various skins.
- General
- New Effect: Basic attack, empowered attack, and crit animations have been improved across all skins to better match the moment damage is applied and generally feel more responsive.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Jax could not use plant after casting Leap Strike.
- General
- New Effect: Altered cast frames on Jax's basic attacks to be more visually consistent.
- New Effect: Attack now always uses crit animation.
- New Effect: Resized Counterstrike hit particle and did some rotation/swirl editing to more accurately convey the range and shape of effect.
- New Effect: Once he levels his ultimate, Jax cycles consistently through his different basic attack animations.
- Stack fall-off changed to one at a time from all at once.
- General
- Splash artwork for updated to the Chinese art.
- Maximum stacks increased to 8 from 6.
- Per-stack bonus attack speed reduced to 3.5 − 11 (based on level)% from 4 − 14 (based on level)%.
- Maximum bonus attack speed increased to 28 − 88 (based on level)% from 24 − 84 (based on level)%.
- Stats
- Base mana increased to 338.8 from 288.8.
- Mana growth reduced to 32 from 35.
- Mana cost reduced to 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 from 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90.
- Bonus armor/magic resistance increased to 30 / 50 / 70 from 20 / 35 / 50.
- Cooldown reduced to 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 seconds from 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10.
- Bonus armor/magic resistance changed to 20 / 35 / 50 from 25 / 35 / 45.
- Bonus armor AD ratio increased to 50% bonus AD from 30%.
- Stats
- Basic attack animation speed increased by 19%.
- Stats
- Base health reduced to 535 from 561.
- Health per level reduced to 85 from 98.
- Armor per level reduced to 3 from 3.5.
- Stats
- Base armor increased to 22 from 18.
- Stats
- Movement speed increased to 350 from 325.
- General
- New splash artwork for .
- Bug Fix: Dodge interaction with .
- General
- Splash artwork for , and updated to the Chinese art.
- Base damage reduced to 40 / 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 from 40 / 85 / 130 / 175 / 220.
- Bug Fix: Stunning through .
- New Effect: Jax gains stacks even if his attacks miss or are dodged.
- Stats
- Health per level increased to 98 from 88.
- Radius increased to 375 from 350.
- Removed: bonus attack damage and bonus ability power upon activation.
- New Effect: Upon activation Jax gains 25 / 35 / 45 (+ 30% bonus AD) bonus armor and 25 / 35 / 45 (+ 20% AP) bonus magic resistance.
- Mana cost: 100.
- Cooldown: 80 seconds.
- Bug Fix: Passive's enhanced third attack being canceled if active's duration ran out during attack animation.
- Stats
- Mana regen per level increased to 0.7 from 0.45.
- Bug Fix: Cooldown at early ranks being higher than intended.
- Dodge duration increased to 2 seconds from 1.5
- New Effect: Reduces area-of-effect damage by 25% for the duration.
- New Effect: Can be reactivated earlier after 1 second of casting.
- Damage changed to 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+ 50% Bonus AD) from 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 (+ 80% Bonus AD).
- Bonus damage changed to 20% per attack dodged (up to 100) from 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 per dodge.
- Cooldown reduced to 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 seconds from 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 / 14.
- Duration increased to 8 seconds from 6.
- V1.0.0.132 Gameplay Update
- General
- New joke animation.
- Splash artwork for and and updated to the Chinese art.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 551 from 506.
- Health per level increased to 88 from 83.
- Armor per level increased to 3.5 from 3.2.
- Every time Jax attacks an enemy, he gains 4 − 14 (based on level)% increased attack speed (stacks up to 6 times).
(Innate), remade from old ultimate.
- Base damage increased to 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 from 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120.
- AP ratio reduced to 60% AP from 70% AP.
- Cooldown changed to 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 seconds from 13 / 11 / 9 / 7 / 5.
(Q)
- Base damage changed to 40 / 85 / 130 / 175 / 220 from 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200.
- Removed: 40% AD ratio
- AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 40% AP.
- Mana cost increased to 30 from 20.
- Cooldown reduced to 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 seconds from 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5.
(W)
- Jax dodges all incoming basic attacks for 1.5 seconds. At the end of the effect, Jax deals physical damage, increased by 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 for each dodge over the duration, and stuns nearby enemies for 1 second.
- Removed: Passive dodge chance, on-dodge stun trigger, on-hit stun upon activation, AP ratio.
- Base damage reduced to 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 from 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200.
- New: Damage has a +80% bonus AD ratio.
(E)
- Every third consecutive attack passively deals 100 / 160 / 220 (+ 70% AP) bonus magic damage.
- Active: For 6 seconds, Jax gains 25 / 45 / 65 (+ 20% bonus AD) bonus attack damage and 25 / 45 / 65 (+ 20% AP) bonus ability power.
(Ultimate)
- Base damage reduced to 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 from 35 / 60 / 85 / 110 / 135.
- Base damage reduced to 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 from 75 / 110 / 135 / 180 / 215.
- New Effect: Breaks .
- General
- Bug Fix: Jax's attacks being undodgeable.
- New Effect: Jax will attempt to attack enemy targets after landing on them.
- Base damage reduced to 35 / 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 from 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150.
- AD ratio increased to 100% AD from (70% AD.
- New Effect: Jax can target wards but they will be revealed for 2 seconds if so.
- AD ratio reduced to 70% AD from 100% AD.
- Removed: Targeting wards.
- Removed: Jax not being able to use abilities mid-leap.
- New Effect: Targeting will prioritize enemies over allies when they overlap.
- General
- Ability tooltips updated.
- General
- Bug Fix: Jax sometimes losing health while leveling up.
- Cooldown reduced to 13 / 11 / 9 / 7 / 5 seconds from 17 / 14 / 11 / 8 / 5.
- New Effect: Brighter particle when Jax has recently dodged an attack and the stun is ready.
- Bug Fix: Interaction with .
- General
- Recommended items updated.
- Tooltip updated to dynamically display bonus health gain.
- AP ratio reduced to (+ 70% AP) from (+ 80% AP).
- Cast time reduced by 20%.
- Speed increased by 20%.
- Base damage increased to 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 / 215 from 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120.
- AD ratio increased to (+ 40% AD) from (+ 20% AD).
- AP ratio increased to (+ 40% AP) from (+ 20% AP).
- Cooldown increased to 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 seconds from 5 at all ranks.
- Mana cost reduced to 20 from 35.
- Tooltip updated to display correct damage type (physical instead of the intended magic).
- Bug Fix: Dealing less damage when used together with and with each third hit from .
- Removed: Cleave damage
- Targeting changed to single from area-of-effect.
- New Effect: Resets Jax's basic attack timer on-cast.
- Base damage increased to 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200 from 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 / 160.
- Removed: Damage, AP ratio.
- New Effect: Upon activation Jax gains 20 / 35 / 50 (+ dodge chance) bonus magic resistance for 5 / 6.5 / 8 seconds.
- New Effect: Buff icon dynamically displays number of stacks.
- Tooltip updated to display correct maximum number of stacks (10).
- Mana cost: 80
- Cooldown: 60
- New Effect: Buff icon displays duration.
- Stats
- Movement speed reduced to 325 from 330.
- Health per level reduced to 83 from 86.
- Cooldown changed to 5 seconds at all ranks from 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3.
- Bug Fix: Jax being healed when receiving bonus damage ( , )
- Bug Fix: Jax targeting himself.
- Stats
- Armor per level reduced to 3.2 from 4.
- Bonus health per item AD reduced to 3 from 4.
- Removed: Casting while rooted.
- Tooltip updated.
- AP ratio reduced to 80% AP from 100% AP.
- AP ratio reduced to 60% AP from 80% AP.
- AP ratio reduced to 70% AP from 100% AP.
- General
- New in-client 'upon selection' line.
- Bonus health per item AD reduced to 4 from 5.
- Bonus health per item AP reduced to 2 from 3.
- Base damage reduced to 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 from 45 / 65 / 85 / 105 / 125.
- New Effect: Has (+ 20% AD) and (+ 20% AP) ratios.
- Stats
- Base mana increased to 235 from 215
- Mana per level increased to 35 from 30
- New I
- Jax's prowess with weapons and armor increases his fortitude, gaining 5 per AD and 3 per AP bonus health when purchasing items.
- - New Effect: Jax can target and subsequently jump to allies.
- Removed: Power-up timer
- New Effect: Jax instantly charges his weapon with energy, causing him to deal 45 / 65 / 85 / 105 / 125 damage to all enemies nearby on his next basic attack.
- Cooldown increased to 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 seconds from 1 at all ranks.
- Mana cost changed to 35 at all ranks from 40 / 35 / 30 / 25 / 20.
- Bug Fix: Damage sometimes failing to land when interacting with targets in brush.
- Responsiveness for after-cast movement updated to allow Jax to move much sooner after striking.
- Responsiveness for after-cast attacking unchanged.
- Responsiveness for after-cast movement updated to allow Jax to move much sooner after striking.
- Moved to Q from W.
- Cooldown reduced to 17 / 14 / 11 / 8 / 5 seconds from 21 / 17 / 13 / 9 / 5.
- Moved to W from Q.
- Cleave damage increased to 60% from 50%.
- Power-up timer reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
- Damage per second increased to 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 from 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40.
- Removed: Interaction with critical strikes.
- Bug Fix: Not triggering.
- AP ratio reduced to 80% AP from 100% AP.
- Dodge chance reduced to 10 / 12 / 14 / 16 / 18% from 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%.
- Cooldown increased to 4.5 seconds from 4.
- Per-stack bonus attack speed reduced to 6 / 10 / 14% from 8 / 12 / 16%.
- Bonus damage increased to 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 from 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 150.
- New Effect: Jax gains a slight movement speed boost upon landing.
- Dodge chance increased to 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20% from 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20%.
- Base damage reduced to 140 / 170 / 210 from .
- Hits for trigger reduced to 3 from 4.
- New Effect: Can be held across targets for up to 2.5 seconds.
- Stats
- Movement speed increased to 325 from 315.
- Stats
- Base armor increased to 18 from 14.
- Health per level increased to 86 from 78.
- Cooldown reduced to 4 seconds from 5.
- On-dodge stun trigger duration increased to 7 seconds from 4.
- Damage growth changed to per level from based on cleave damage.
- Removed: Triggering double hits.
- Bug Fix: Interaction with monsters.
- AP ratio increased to 100% AP from 50% AP.
- Tooltip updated to display the intended (+ 100% AP) ratio.
- Bonus damage from items changed to 15% at all levels from 10 / 15 / 20 / 25%.
- Removed: Triggering item effects (Spellblade, Mana Charge) to accommodate their respective internal cooldowns.
- Removed: Bonus damage interaction with critical strikes.
- Bug Fix: Lasting longer than intended.
- Mana cost increased to 65 from 50.
- Cooldown increased to 22 / 18 / 14 / 10 / 6 seconds from 21 / 17 / 13 / 9 / 5.
- Dodge chance reduced to 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20% from 8 / 12 / 16 / 20 / 24%.
- Mana cost increased to 60 from 50.
- Removed: Stacking on hitting structures.
- Removed: On-hit stacking bonus attack speed while active.
- New Effect: Jax passively gains stacking bonus attack speed with every basic attack landed on a target, up to a maximum.
- Base damage reduced to 150 / 200 / 250 from 150 / 225 / 300.
- General
- Ability tooltips updated.
- Removed: Excessive 'Dodged!' notifications.
- New Effect: Particle.
Trivia
- Jax's eyes are blue.
- Jax was likely inspired by Garet Jax, "The Weapons Master" of the Sword of Shannara Trilogy. He was adept with any weapon and was undefeated in combat, though he often wielded a sword and cudgel.
- In the V1.0.0.115 (April Fools' Day) patch, was given the following joke passive, referencing usage of a lamp post (which is functionally similar to a lantern) as a weapon:
- New Unique Passive: Taunts nearby (both enemy and allied).
- In the now-removed official League of Legends forums, the icon of was used to represent the "Off Topic Discussion" section.
- The icon art of original icon for . features a stunned soldier who was directly mirrored from the