PCJax was last buffed in Patch 26.1 (). Across 95 patches, Jax has received 29 buffs, 18 nerfs, 47 adjustments since release in Patch 0.8.22.115.
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Now that the top lane quest can raise champion levels to 20, we're looking for any champions who intermittently scale their passives and giving them another breakpoint if they deserve one. Jax is one such champion who's gaining a bit more attack speed at level 19.
Relentless Assault
- New Effect: Now gains an additional 1.5% attack speed per stack at level 19.
Counter Strike
- New Effect: Damage based on the target's health ratio is now capped at 9000 against monsters.
We’d like to see Jax as a more meta-defining top laner at Worlds this year but acknowledge he’s already strong enough for regular players, so we’re making his strengths more windowed, something that highly skilled players and coordinated teams can readily harness.
Stats
- Base health reduced to 650 from 665.
Empower
- Bug Fix: Restored cast VO.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- Primary bonus armor increased to 45/60/75 from 25/50/75.
- Primary bonus magic resistance increased to 27/36/45 from 15/30/45.
Passive attack speed increased.
Relentless Assault
- Bonus attack speed per stack increased to 5 to 12.5% (based on level) from 3.5 to 11% (based on level).
- Maximum bonus attack speed increased to 40 to 100% (based on level) from 28 to 88% (based on level).
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- Undocumented / New Effect: Empowered basic attack now has an uncancellable windup.
Empower
- Bug Fix: No longer sometimes fails to apply its damage against structures.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- Bug Fix: After spending a second or further skill point in the ability, no longer causes the attack animations associated with the ability to stop playing.
Health Growth and Base Mana Regen increased. R damage increased.
Stats
- Health growth increased to 103 from 100.
- Base mana regeneration increased to 8.2 from 7.6.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- On-hit base damage increased to 75/130/185 from 70/120/170.
R cooldown increased and damage decreased.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- Cooldown increased to 110/100/90 seconds from 100/90/80.
- Base damage reduced to 100/175/250 from 150/250/350.
R armor, MR, on-hit damage, and armor per champion hit increased.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- On-hit base damage increased to 70/120/170 from 60/110/160.
- Bonus armor increased to 25/50/75 from 15/40/65.
- Bonus magic resistance increased to 15/30/45 from 9/24/39.
- Bonus armor per subsequent target increased to 20/25/30 from 15/20/25.
- Bonus magic resistance per subsequent target increased to 12/15/18 from 9/12/15.
E cooldown increased early.
Empower
- Bug Fix: Empowered attack no longer sometimes fails to apply against towers.
Counter Strike
- Cooldown increased to 17/15/13/11/9 seconds from 15/13.5/12/10.5/9.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- Bug Fix: Restored empowered attack SFX when attacking structures.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- Bug Fix: Cast indicator now matches with the correct range of 375.
- Bug Fix: Ability power and attack damage from conversions and adaptive force is now properly included in the ratio calculations.
Relentless Assault
- Bug Fix: Restored all respective buff icons.
Neo PAX
- Bug Fix: Idle fish VFX now appear as intended while he is in the river.
E damage decreased.
Empower
- New Effect: Empowered attack is now consumed against structures for 50% damage.
Counter Strike
- Minimum base damage reduced to 40/70/100/130/160 from 55/85/115/145/175.
- Maximum base damage reduced to 80/140/200/260/320 from 110/170/230/290/350.
- Minimum health ratio reduced to 3.5% of target's maximum health from 4%.
- Maximum health ratio reduced to 7% of target's maximum health from 8%.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- New Effect: Passive stacks can now be consumed against structures to deal 50% damage.
Empower
- Bug Fix: Now uses the correct animation for the attack rather than the default one when he has any passive stacks.
Empyrean
- Bug Fix: Flame VFX is no longer misplaced during his Recall animation.
General
- Bug Fix: Several VFX and SFX issues resulting from the ASU have been resolved.
Counter Strike
- Undocumented: Now deals the proper amplified amount of damage again if Jax recasts it manually.
General
- Updated ability icons.
- Complete visual update across all skins.
- New splash artwork for Original, The Mighty, Vandal, Angler, PAX, Jaximus, Temple, and Nemesis.
- New voice-over.
- Updated sound effects.
Relentless Assault
- New Effect: Catching a fish now grants 1 AP for 5 seconds.
- New Effect: Now has a 5% chance to catch a rare fish that grants 10 gold and 10 ability power for 5 seconds.
Empower
- Undocumented: Empowered basic attacks now have an uncancellable windup.
Counter Strike
- Undocumented: Cooldown reduced to 14/12.5/11/9.5/8 seconds from 15/13.5/12/10.5/9.2
- Undocumented: Now always deals the minimum damage if Jax manually recasts it.1
Mecha Kingdoms
- Counter Strike
- Bug Fix: VFX ring no longer remains for longer than intended after dodging multiple hits.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- Undocumented: Mana cost reduced to 50 from 100.2
Counter Strike
- Bug Fix: VFX is no longer visible to enemies from the Fog of War.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- Bug Fix: VFX is no longer visible to enemies from the Fog of War.
Warden
- Bug Fix: Cape and shoulder armor no longer improperly clip with his model during certain animations.
Mecha Kingdoms
- Counter Strike
- Bug Fix: VFX no longer displays for longer than intended after dodging multiple hits in a single cast.
General
- Bug Fix: Several issues with voice line playback have been resolved.
Mecha Kingdoms
- Counter Strike
- Bug Fix: VFX indicator no longer remains after the fact even if multiple hits were dodged during the ability.
E cooldown increased. R mana cost increased.
Counter Strike
- Cooldown increased to 15/13.5/12/10.5/9 seconds from 14/12.5/11/9.5/8.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- Mana cost increased to 100 from 50.
Base health increased, health growth increased. E AP ratio adjusted, damage calculation adjusted. R passive on-hit damage decreased, bonus armor and magic resist decreased early.
Stats
- Base health reduced to 665 from 685.
- Health growth increased to 100 from 99.
Counter Strike
- AP ratio reduced to 70% AP from 100% AP.
- New Effect: Now increases total damage per attack dodged instead of only base damage.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- On-hit base damage reduced to 60/110/160 from 80/120/160.
- Base bonus armor reduced to 15/40/65 from 25/45/65.
- Base bonus magic resistance reduced to 9/24/39 from 15/27/39.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- Shield visual effect restored.
- Improved hit sound effect.
- Bug Fix: Now properly plays all sound effects.
Nemesis
- Lightning visual effects added to Grandmaster-at-Arms.
God Staff
- Sparkle and spike visual effects added to Grandmaster-at-Arms.
- Adjusted cape animation to reduced stiffness.
- Updated Grandmaster-at-Arms passive empowered attack animation.
- Bug Fix: No longer returns to his idle animation between attacks.
Mecha Kingdoms
- Ember explosion visual effects added to Grandmaster-at-Arms.
- Adjusted visual effects for Empower and Grandmaster-at-Arms on-hit.
- Bug Fix: Now properly plays Grandmaster-at-Arms reactive shield visual effect.
- Bug Fix: Now properly plays Grandmaster-at-Arms rank up animation.
- Bug Fix: Now properly plays Counter Strike unique basic attack animations.
- Bug Fix: Grandmaster-at-Arms stacks now properly play at their intended speed.
Conqueror
- Spike visual effects added to Grandmaster-at-Arms.
Prestige Conqueror
- Spike visual effects added to Grandmaster-at-Arms.
Midscope update. All abilities adjusted. Jax’s midscope update is on the smaller side compared to our previous onces. Overall, we like his simpler gameplay and kit, but we felt there was room to make his ultimate ability more interesting. Additionally, we’ve shifted his AP ratios around to buff up his burstier AP playstyle that’s seen play in the past. All of that said, unfortunately Jax still doesn’t have a real weapon…
General
- Updated ability icons.
- Secret fishing passive added.
Leap Strike
- Removed: Damage no longer scales with 60% AP.
Counter Strike
- Damage type changed to magic from physical.
- Base damage increased to 55/85/115/145/175 from 55/80/105/130/155.
- Removed: Damage no longer scales with 50% bonus AD.
- New Effect: Damage now scales with 100% AP.
- New Effect: Damage now scales with 4% of the target's maximum health.
- New Effect: Now only increases base damage per attack dodged instead of total damage.
Grandmaster-at-Arms
- Ability renamed to Grandmaster-at-Arms from Grandmaster's Might.
- Cooldown increased to 100/90/80 seconds from 80 at all ranks.
- On-hit base damage reduced to 80/120/160 from 100/140/180.
- On-hit AP ratio reduced to 60% AP from 70% AP.
- New Effect: Now has a 0.25-second cast time.
- New Active: Swings his lantern around, dealing 150/250/350 (+ 100% AP) magic damage to enemies within 375 units. If this hits a champion, he gains 10% increased size and 25/45/65 (+ 40% bonus AD) bonus armor, increased by 15/20/25 (+ 10% bonus AD) per subsequent champion hit, and bonus magic resistance equal to 60% of armor gained for 8 seconds. He applies his passive on-hit every 2 stacks instead of every 3 while active.
- Old Active: Gains 30/50/70 (+ 50% bonus AD) bonus armor and 30/50/70 (+ 20% AP) bonus magic resistance.
- Updated animations, visual effects, and sound effects.
Stats
- Base mana regeneration increased to 7.6 from 7.58.
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.
Base health increased. W base damage increased.
Stats
- Base health increased to 615 from 593.
Empower
- Base damage increased to 50/85/120/155/190 from 40/75/110/145/180.
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.
E cooldown decreased.
Counter Strike
- Cooldown reduced to 14/12.5/11/9.5/8 seconds from 16/14/12/10/8.
Leap Strike
- Bug Fix: Damaging with Leap Strike followed by two basic attacks will now properly activate Phase Rush and Electrocute.
Empower
- Indicator added to show recast ability timer.
Counter Strike
- Indicator added to show recast ability timer.
R now works with Guinsoo's Rageblade
Grandmaster's Might
- Bug Fix: Guinsoo's Rageblade Phantom Hits now properly triggers Grandmaster's Might and apply Grandmaster's Might stacks.
Leap Strike
- 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.
Leap Strike
- Cleaned up for readability.
Empower
- Activation made more visible and fire added to his lamppost.
Counter Strike
- Cleaned up and added an indicator for the stun range.
Grandmaster's Might
- Cleaned up, added sand particles, and made the third hit more clear and satisfying.
Nemesis
- New particles over the entire kit.
God Staff
- Counter Strike
- Added stun range indicator to match changes to base.
Attack damage decreased. Q damage decreased early.
Stats
- Base attack damage reduced to 68 from 69.97.
Leap Strike
- Base damage reduced to 65/105/145/185/225 from 80/120/160/200/240.
Grandmaster's Might
- New Effect: Ability icon HUD now shows the remaining duration of the ability.
Grandmaster's Might
- Passive base damage reduced to 100/140/180 from 100/160/220.
Counter Strike
- 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.
Leap Strike
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
Leap Strike
- Base damage increased to 80/120/160/200/240 from 70/110/150/190/230.
Counter Strike
- Minimum base damage increased to 55/80/105/130/155 from 50/75/100/125/150.
Grandmaster's Might
- Removed: On-hit bonus damage procing against wards.
Empower
- New Effect: Now grants 50 bonus range.
Counter Strike
- 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.
Leap Strike
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Jax could not use Blast Cone plant after casting Leap Strike.
General
- New Effect: Altered cast frames on Jax's basic attacks to be more visually consistent.
Empower
- New Effect: Attack now always uses crit animation.
Counter Strike
- New Effect: Resized Counterstrike hit particle and did some rotation/swirl editing to more accurately convey the range and shape of effect.
Grandmaster's Might
- New Effect: Once he levels his ultimate, Jax cycles consistently through his different basic attack animations.
Relentless Assault
- New Effect: Stacks fall off one at a time rather than all at once.
Relentless Assault
- Attack speed reduced to 3.5% to 11% (based on level) from 4% to 14% (based on level).
- Maximum stacks increased to 8 from 6.
- Maximum attack speed increased to 28% to 88% (based on level) from 24% to 84% (based on level).
Counter Strike
- Mana cost reduced to 50/60/70/80/90 from 70/75/80/85/90.
General
- Base resists increased to 30/50/70 from 20/35/50.
Counter Strike
- Cooldown reduced to 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 seconds from 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10.
Grandmaster's Might
- Bonus armor increased to 20 / 35 / 50 (+50% bonus AD) from 25 / 35 / 45 (+30% bonus AD).
- Base bonus magic resist changed to 20 / 35 / 50 from 25 / 35 / 45.
Stats
- Jax finishes his attack animation 19% faster.
Stats
- Base health reduced to 450 from 463.
- Health per level reduced to 85 from 98.
- Armor per level reduced to 3 from 3.5.
Counter Strike
- Dodge component now works properly against Shen.
Empower
- Damage reduced to 40/75/110/145/180 from 40/85/130/175/220.
Counter Strike
- Fixed a bug where it was stunning through spell shields.
Relentless Assault
- Passive damage proc stacks increase even if Jax's attack misses or is dodged.
Stats
- Health per level increased to 98 from 88.
Counter Strike
- Area of effect radius increased to 375 from 350.
Grandmaster's Might
- Active: Jax gains 25/35/45 (+30% of bonus attack damage) armor and 25/35/45 (+20% of ability power) magic resist for 8 seconds.
- Cost: 100 mana
- Cooldown: 80 seconds
Grandmaster's Might
- Fixed a bug where the passive attack canceled if the buff ran out during the attack animation.
Stats
- Mana regen per level increased to 0.7 per 5 seconds from 0.45.
Empower
- Fixed a bug where its cooldown was higher than stated at earlier ranks.
Counter Strike
- Dodge duration increased to 2 seconds from 1.5.
- Now additionally reduces the damage from area of effect abilities by 25% for the duration.
- It can now be activated again after 1 second to end the effect early.
- Damage changed to 50/75/100/125/150 (+0.5 bonus attack damage) from 40/70/100/130/160 (+0.8 bonus attack damage).
- Now deals 20% increased damage for each attack dodged (up to a maximum of 100% increased damage) instead of 10/15/20/25/30 bonus damage per dodge.
- Cooldown reduced to 18/16/14/12/10 seconds from 22/20/18/16/14.
Grandmaster's Might
- Duration increased to 8 seconds from 6.
General
- New joke animation.
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.
Relentless Assault (Innate) - Remade from old Ultimate
- Every time Jax attacks an enemy, he gains 4 to 14 (based on level)% increased attack speed (stacks up to 6 times).
Leap Strike (Q)
- Base damage reduced 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.
Empower (W)
- 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.
Counter Strike (E)
- 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.
Grandmaster's Might (Ultimate)
- 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.
Leap Strike
- Base damage reduced to 20/45/70/95/120 from 35/60/85/110/135.
Empower
- Base damage reduced to 60/95/130/165/200 from 75/110/135/180/215.
- Now breaks spell shields.
General
- Fixed a bug where Jax's attacks could not be dodged.
Leap Strike
- Jax will now attempt to attack the target after casting if it is an enemy champion.
Leap Strike
- Base damage reduced to 35/60/85/110/135 from 50/75/100/125/150.
- Attack damage scaling increased to 100% from 70%.
Leap Strike
- Can now target wards again, but will now reveal wards for two seconds when used in this manner.
Leap Strike
- Attack damage scaling reduced to 70% from 100%.
- Can no longer be cast on wards.
Leap Strike
- No longer locks Jax, allowing him to cast spells while leaping.
Leap Strike
- Improved to fail dash less often.
Leap Strike
- Now prefers to target enemies over allies when your cursor overlaps both.
General
- Updated tooltips.
General
- Fixed a bug where in some instances Jax would lose health while leveling.
Leap Strike
- Cooldown reduced to 13/11/9/7/5 from 17/14/11/8/5.
Counter Strike
- Now shows a brighter particle when Jax has recently dodged an attack and Counter Strike is ready.
Empower
- Now properly procs Rylai's Crystal Scepter.
General
- Recommended items updated.
Equipment Mastery
- Tooltip updated to show health gained from each source dynamically.
Leap Strike
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.7 from 0.8.
- Cast time reduced by 20%.
- Travel speed increased by 20%.
Empower
- Base damage increased to 75/110/145/180/215 from 40/60/80/100/120.
- Ability power and attack damage ratios increased to 0.4 from 0.2.
- Cooldown increased to 9/8/7/6/5 seconds from 5 at all ranks.
- Mana cost reduced to 20 from 35.
- Tooltip corrected to accurately state it deals magic damage.
- Fixed bugs where Empower incorrectly did less damage when used at the same time as Leap Strike or each third Relentless Assault strike.
- Now only deals damage to a single target rather than to an area of effect.
- Now resets Jax’s autoattack timer when cast.
Counter Strike
- Base damage increased to 80/110/140/170/200 from 80/100/120/140/160.
Relentless Assault
- New Active: Grants 20/35/50 + Jax's dodge percent in bonus magic resistance for 5/6.5/8 seconds upon activation.
- Cost: 80 mana
- Cooldown: 60 seconds
- Buff icon now dynamically shows Jax's number of Relentless Assault stacks.
- Tooltip correctly indicates that Jax gains up to 10 stacks of Relentless Assault.
Counter Strike
- Now has a buff showing the duration of the effect.
Stats
- Health per level reduced to 83 from 86.
- Base movement speed reduced to 325 from 330.
Empower
- Cooldown changed to 5 seconds at all ranks from 7/6/5/4/3 seconds.
Equipment Mastery
- Fixed a bug where Jax was being healed when he received bonus damage (from Guinsoo's Rageblade, Eye of the Storm, etc.).
Leap Strike
- Fixed a bug where Jax could target himself.
Stats
- Base armor per level reduced to 3.2 from 4.
Equipment Mastery
- Attack damage to health conversion reduced to 3 from 4.
Leap Strike
- Is no longer castable while immobilized.
Empower
- Fixed a minor tooltip typo.
Leap Strike
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.8 from 1.0.
Counter Strike
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.6 from 0.8.
Relentless Assault
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.7 from 1.0.
General
- New "Selection" quote in PVP.net.
Equipment Mastery
- Health bonus reduced to 4 health per attack damage and 2 health per ability power.
Empower
- Base damage reduced to 40/60/80/100/120 from 45/65/85/105/125.
- Now gains 20% of attack damage and ability power as bonus damage.
Stats
- Base mana increased to 235 from 215.
- Mana per level increased to 35 from 30.
Equipment Mastery remade
- Jax's prowess with weapons and armor increase his fortitude as he gains equipment.
- Jax gains 5 health per point of attack damage received from items.
- Jax gains 3 health per point of ability power received from items.
Leap Strike
- Can now target allies.
Empower remade
- Jax instantly charges his weapon with energy, causing him to deal 45/65/85/105/125 damage to all enemies nearby on his next attack.
- As there is no longer a charge-up time, cooldown increased to 7/6/5/4/3 from 1 second at all ranks.
- Changed mana cost to 35 at all ranks from 40/35/30/25/20.
Leap Strike
- Fixed an issue that was causing the damage to fail sometimes when interacting with targets in brush.
Leap Strike
- Improved responsiveness: you can now move much sooner after striking (but not attack).
General
- Ability keys rearranged: Leap Strike is now Q, Empower is now W.
Leap Strike
- Cooldown reduced to 17/14/11/8/5 seconds from 21/17/13/9/5.
Empower
- Cleave increased to 60% from 50%.
- Duration to power up reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
- Damage per second increased to 25/35/45/55/65 from 20/25/30/35/40.
Empower
- Can no longer crit.
- Fixed an issue causing it to not proc.
Counter Strike
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.8 from 1.
- Dodge reduced to 10/12/14/16/18% from 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%.
- Cooldown increased to 4.5 seconds from 4.
Relentless Assault
- Attack speed per level reduced to 6/10/14% from 8/12/16%.
Leap Strike
- Bonus damage increased to 50/75/100/125/150 from 30/60/90/120/150.
- Now gives Jax a slight speed boost upon landing.
Counter Strike
- Dodge increased to 10/12.5/15/17.5/20% from 8/11/14/17/20%.
Relentless Assault :
- Damage reduced to 140/170/210.
- Reduced hits to proc to 3 from 4.
- Can now be held across targets for up to 2.5 seconds.
Stats
- Movement speed increased to 325 from 315.
Jax added to League of Legends
Stats
- Base armor increased to 22 from 18.
- Health per level increased to 86 from 78.
Counter Strike
- Cooldown reduced to 4 seconds from 5.
- Duration of dodge proc increased to 7 from 4.
