Jax vs Shaco Counter Pick

Vision decides this one long before health bars do. Deceive turns Shaco invisible and teleports him, and his first attack out of that state is empowered and critically strikes, so the opening blow is chosen entirely by him. Jax holds 44.2 percent across 380 games on patch 16.13.1.

Counter Strike is the obvious answer and a difficult one to time. It dodges attacks for a short duration, but the champion it needs to dodge is not visible until the damage is already committed, and Jack In The Box adds a fear that can start the sequence from an unexpected angle. Backstab rewards Shaco for striking from behind, which pairs badly with an opponent forced to face the wrong direction after that fear.

Raw statistics favour Jax in every column:

• 650 health at level one against 630, rising to 2,401 at eighteen against 2,313.
• 107.4 armor at level 18 against 98, with base magic resistance level at 32 for both.
• 68 attack damage against 63, backed by the attack speed Relentless Assault keeps adding.

Shaco deals mixed damage and is rated 9 for difficulty against 5 for Jax, so the gap narrows sharply whenever the sequence is executed poorly. Movement speed of 345 against 350 leaves the retreat open, except that Two-Shiv Poison slows passively on hit. Hallucinate spawning a second body also wastes a fully stacked Relentless Assault on a clone.