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Recommended Items
Runes:
1
2
3
Resolve
Domination
+8 Ability Haste
+6 Armor
+6 Armor
Spells:
1
2
General Support
Exhaust
Flash
Items
Ability Order
Martial Cadence (PASSIVE)
Jarvan IV Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Extreme
Major
Even
Minor
Tiny
None
Low
Ok
Strong
Ideal
Caitlyn
Caitlyn traps work well with Jarvan's kit.
Ideal
Strong
Ok
Low
None
Caitlyn
Caitlyn traps work well with Jarvan's kit.
Champion Build Guide
Introduction
Why Jarvan IV Support?!
The main reason for why you wanna pick
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This guide will show you what to build and what your job is throughout the game.
Who is dis GMarius?
I'm a "casual" league player that mostly plays for fun with friends. I do play some ranked though, to get the end of season rewards, but that's about it. The thing about me is that I don't really have a main role or main champion, I play almost anything.
When I get support I like to try out off-meta picks like
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If this guide is a success I might make some more guides on off-meta supports I play like
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Here's my op.gg if you are interested: GMarius (EUW)
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I also have a youtube channel - GMarius
I upload random videos, usually League of legends or PUBG related.
I also stream every now and then over at my twitch channel GMarius
If you have any questions send me a friend request on league and I might just answer you.
Pros / Cons
+ Incredibly tanky + Lots of shields + Perfect for setting up wombo combos + Not too bad damage + Fun! |
- Can screw over team mates with ultimate walls ![]() - Not 100% reliable CC because ![]() - Underwhelming damage when compared to ![]() |
General Playstyle
Engage combo
The general engage combo is that you use your E
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You usually wanna ult
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You can also be fancy and add the
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Laning Phase / Early game
When you first get to lane at lvl 1 there is not much you can do except for using your
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The moment you hit lvl 2 you should look for any opening to engage with the E+Q combo on the squishiest enemy or the one that doesn't have an escape. Usually that is the adc, but it could also be the support Soraka, Sona etc.
Before you engage you should always take a look at the enemy minion wave and your adc. Minions do a load of damage early on so you don't want to engage onto a full minion wave. You should also check if your adc is able to follow up on your engage (mana, HP, cooldowns, etc.)
If everything seems good start pinging that you want to go in on a specific target and then engage. The reason you wanna ping first is to prepare your adc for the engage and to make sure you both focus the same target.
This is generally what you want to do the entire laning phase. Don't forget to ward, maybe roam mid after backing and all the usual supporty stuff.
Mid game
In this stage of the game you become this scary, unkillable monster that nobody escapes from. Now you should have your support quest finished SO MAKE SURE TO WARD, but don't forget that you aren't a one man army.
In this stage of the game, specially, you never wanna be alone. You wanna stick with whoever has the most kill potential with your cc. This player is hopefully your adc if everything went well in the early game.
Your job in the midgame is to look for easy picks/engages and keep the strongest enemy damage dealer CC'ed at all cost in teamfights. Wards will be your best friends when it comes to finding easy picks. Don't forget to use your red trinket
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Late game
Jarvan support slightly falls off because he isn't as tanky anymore because the enemies have more damage items, but he is still a great champion for setting up wombo combos.
Late game is sort of the same as mid game, you wanna look for easy picks and keep the strongest damage dealer CC'ed but you also have to make sure you aren't outnumbered.
If you make the wrong decisions and engage a 4v5 and lose, it could cost you the game.
Use your red trinket to set up traps with your team in bushes and use objectives as bait for some easy picks.
Summoner Spells
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You ALWAYS want to have
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OR
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Most of the time you want
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Season 10 Runes!
The new runes for season 9 are out and I've been doing some testing and think I found the best runes for the dunking support of Demacia.
We definitly want to go with
Resolve as our main runes because we want to be tanky. The keystone that I think works best is
Aftershock because it fits the all in-knockup playstyle of Jarvan support.
Second we want
Shield Bash because it you will always have a shield when you fight (need to do some more testing here, but I think this seems best).
Third we want
Bone Plating because it's an insanely good rune that makes us even tankier.
Fourth we want
Overgrowth because we want more hp to be tanky and it makes our W shield bigger because it scales with HP.
As for our 2 secondary runes I've been doing some testing and found 2 possibilities.
The best one is
Domination with
Relentless Hunter and
Zombie Ward. This gives more movespeed to be able to engage/chase easier, and you get handy zombie wards whenever you use your sweeper to clear wards.
Second option is
Inspiration with
Magical Footwear and
Approach Velocity. This makes you and your teammates quicker, and you get sum fwee boots (but can't get early boots)! Kinda meh compared to the domination route.
This could change soon depending on what gets nerfed/buffed.
Edit*
After doing some testing I found that going for
Precision with
Triumph and
Legend: Tenacity as secondary runes could be viable, but I still feel like the
Domination route fits better for support.
We definitly want to go with
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Second we want
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Third we want
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Fourth we want
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As for our 2 secondary runes I've been doing some testing and found 2 possibilities.
The best one is
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Second option is
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This could change soon depending on what gets nerfed/buffed.
Edit*
After doing some testing I found that going for
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Season 10 support items
The support items in season 10 are roughly the same however, there is a slight change to the starting items. There are now four different starting items but it still works roughly the same. Two of them are for AD champs, while the other 2 are for AP champs. The two types are like the old Relic Shield and Spell Theif's. This means that we can get whatever we want with whatever scaling we want. For example, we can get a relic shield with slight AD scaling.
Also, it's good to note that they now upgrade automatically as you fulfil the support quest. Also you get more wards when it's fully upgraded so this is a fairly good buff for support items.
Also, it's good to note that they now upgrade automatically as you fulfil the support quest. Also you get more wards when it's fully upgraded so this is a fairly good buff for support items.
Jarvan changes?
Patch 7.24
Jarvan IV got a little nerf to his passive and Q damage, but this doesn't affect Jarvan support too much.
Thornmail got buffed with damage being based on armour instead of flat damage making it even better for
Jarvan IV as a final item.
8.2
Support items got changed but it doesn't really change much (sightstone was removed, as well as the non sightstone support items, which we did not use anyways).
Not updating this much anymore, but if you have some important changes that I missed, send me a message/comment and I'll update it :)
9.9
Pretty big nerf to the shield ;( changed from up to 3% of max hp to 1,5% at all levels. Jarvan support still works but he's not so unkillable as he used to be.
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8.2
Support items got changed but it doesn't really change much (sightstone was removed, as well as the non sightstone support items, which we did not use anyways).
Not updating this much anymore, but if you have some important changes that I missed, send me a message/comment and I'll update it :)
9.9
Pretty big nerf to the shield ;( changed from up to 3% of max hp to 1,5% at all levels. Jarvan support still works but he's not so unkillable as he used to be.
Summary
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