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Against proper tanky players (with a full armour item at the least) then yes you'll go cleaver second and instead get duskblade third.
Lissandra and Urgot probably stand out as the biggest 2 problems.
Lissandra forces Jayce to buy magic resistance and maybe a QSS whilst also going aftershock to become really hard to kill. In lane she's ranged as well so isn't as susceptible to poke like other matchups.
Urgot just has so much presence in lane and can have both TP and Ignite (thanks to spellbook) making it very difficult to shut him down and all in him.
When it got reworked initally it was much better because
The matchups section has all the specific best starting options, but DBlade is good into everyone but isn't often the best into anyone.
I'd rate him a 8/10 if 1/10 is sona, 5/10 is Lucian, 10/10 is Azir.
However I do buy it in games where I'm the only teams waveclear AND im against a tank top. (So I'm vs a Maokai and my team has a fizz mid, ADC Draven and jungle rek'sai for example) so I'm our teams poke and wave clear, then the mana is needed to perm spam Q E.
I would take them into hard pure AP matchups. There are only 3 champions I would take these over scaling HP (unless you don't have scaling HP but do have flat). LeBlanc, Ryze and Syndra.
They make you the most tanky out of any seal but they scale the worst. Against non-AD champions whom you need to worry about pre 6 pressure then the level 1 buffer is perfect. You also might think "Ryze and LeBlanc? They're terrible right now!" and you're correct. However if they got any small buff, they would be the 2 champions to take flat HP into. Syndra simply because you'll be trading damage a lot more. Her Q auto should be countered by your Q auto.
TLDR: Third best seal. Flat armour is better in every AD matchup and Scaling HP is usually better vs AP, but there are specific situations in where flat HP is good as well. They're also a solid substitute if you don't have scaling HP but do have flat HP.