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.
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
The stats provided here feature several critical Jax vs. Warwick counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the pair. Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Warwick’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Warwick..
Jax often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Warwick. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jax usually wins when taking on Warwick, with a 53.4% win rate. Therefore, Jax makes a great counter for Warwick.
While Jax does have a higher winrate compared to Warwick, when facing one another, Jax also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Jax into Warwick.
Additionally, Jax has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Warwick. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jax vs Warwick matchups, Jax is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Jax is a great counter for Warwick. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Jax against Warwick.
To learn all of the intricacies of Jax to counter Warwick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax usually picks up more CS compared to Warwick. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Jax versus Warwick build consist of Guardian Angel, Sterak's Gage, and Sundered Sky. When Jax included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Warwick than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average winrate of 53.4% battling Warwick with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Warwick as Jax, Jax players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Jax vs Warwick counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Warwick as Jax are given for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.