Despite not being the greatest pick historically, Jax is now holding a much better place in the ARAM meta. He is a great fighter champion that can deal with multiple enemies simultaneously, which makes him a great addition to every ARAM composition. To make him even greater, today we are gonna take a look at the highest win rate Jax ARAM build.
Best Jax ARAM Items
Trinity Force
Trinity Force stands as the holy grail of Jax items. It gives him an extensive list of stats such as attack speed, attack damage, health, and ability haste. Other than stats, Trinity Force also comes with two great passives, Spellblade and Quicken. The Spellblade will grant us bonus damage to basic attacks following abilities, and Quicken will slightly increase our mobility after hitting an enemy.
Sundered Sky
Sundered Sky works as if it was hand tailored to suit Jax. When it comes to stats, it will give us basics such as HP and damage, but this item is most distinguished by its passive. The passive will periodically double the base damage of our auto-attacks, making us much more threatening.
Death’s Dance
The third item that is conducive to a high win rate is Death’s Dance. It will set a nice armor foundation, and give us great ratios of bonus AD. Additionally, it will cleanse a great amount of damage we receive in fights, provided we manage to score a takedown in a timely manner. All these stats make it a great item for sustaining and dishing out damage.
Spear of Shojin
On the stats side of things, Spear of Shojin will equip us with bonus damage, HP, and ability haste. On the passive side, it will give us a stacking bonus damage on abilities. The passive is stacked each time we land an ability, and it’s capped to 12%.
The Blade of the Ruined King
As the late game approaches, more and more enemies will have builds loaded with armor and HP. To make our life easier, we can simply build the Blade of the Ruined King. The item will enable us to deal a percentage of HP with each hit, which will enable us to hard counter enemies with stacked HP.
Boots
The bruiser build we are running is best supported by defensive boots. Against comps featuring heavy CC, it is best to build Mercury Treads due to their tenacity properties. Against auto-attacking comps, the choice rests on Plated Steelcaps, as these bots will reduce 12% of basic attack damage.
Runes for Jax ARAM
- Conqueror
- Triumph
- Legend: Alacrity
- Last Stand
- Sudden Impact
- Treasure Hunter
The most effective keystone for Jax in ARAM is the Conqueror. It is best followed by Triumph and Legend: Alacrity. Triumph is great for extra sustain, as it will provide us a healing with each takedown we score, while Alacrity is amazing for bonus attack speed.
We will also want to take the Last Stand for increased damage when we are low on HP, and Sudden Impact for bonus damage on auto-attacks following our Q. Finally, we can take Treasure Hunter to get bonus gold for unique takedowns.
Final Thoughts
Jax is a pretty solid ARAM pick. The highest win rate for him combines mainly pure damage items. Most items included in the text above are core, however, some can be swapped out in some niche situations. If we faced 5 AP champs, it would be reasonable to swap out Death’s Dance for say Kaenick Rokern, however, as these situations are quite rare, you can be confident in flexing the above described build in pretty much every game.