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Strength Through Progress - In Depth Jayce Guide

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if im against a tanky team and im top do i buy dusk blade, or settle for black cleaver

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Tanky teams are pretty rare at the moment. Usually people get fairly beefy from Tabi/Resolve/Health and are bruisers instead of tanks. In that case you still go DB second.

Against proper tanky players (with a full armour item at the least) then yes you'll go cleaver second and instead get duskblade third.

thanks, also what are some of his worst counters?

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Innately tanky champions who can survive or return his level of poke.

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.

Do you think Dark Harvest is viable in Jayce? Great guide btw.

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It's ok, but Aery/Electrocute are better.

When it got reworked initally it was much better because and would proc it, making it very easy to proc on Jayce. However with the removal of that, the nerfs to damage and general power shift Aery/Electrocute are better.

Hey, how come that even tough dorans blade is his starter item you never recommend that against any of his matchups?

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It's a one size fits all starting item. I without a doubt should add it to the text portion of the guide and i'll be doing so next patch.

The matchups section has all the specific best starting options, but DBlade is good into everyone but isn't often the best into anyone.

is he mechanically hard?

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In my opinion, yes. He's not the hardest (Draven/Azir/GP/Yasuo are harder when balanced) but he's for sure up there.

I'd rate him a 8/10 if 1/10 is sona, 5/10 is Lucian, 10/10 is Azir.

The guide is great. Unfortunately in silver this is only good for winning laning fase, I can't manage to carry any game as Jayce (probably my fault).

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Very helpful guide thanks for helping me

What do you think of BOTRK on Jayce? Would you build it and in the case that you would buy it in which matchups?

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When do you build Tear ?

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Personally? Very rarely. I think proper mana management from W and just not spamming spells 24/7 makes tear less useful.

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.

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Gotcha. Thank you.

Great Guide Helped Me Improve

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Nice guide bud!!

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Thanks friend

What are your thoughts on Tear? I tend to buy it every game as it allows me to go for longer fights in the late game.

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Playstyle choice.

Tear gives you basically infinite mana for poking, higher DPS with auto attacks and a very nice build path.

Tearless gives you more burst damage for less gold and a more flexible build in the late game.

I personally prefer tearless so I can get a lot of situational items. With tear you go boots + GB + BC/Tri + Manamune leaving you with 2 slots for whatever you need. Tearless gives you 3 slots. Being able to get Death's Dance, Maw and a GA is sometimes way more useful than a huge mana pool and higher DPS.

That being said, tear is far from "wrong". You do you.

My usual build is something like this: Muramana, Boots, Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, Death's Dance, situational item (GA, Maw, ArmorPen).

In my current elo (high silver low gold) I find I have enough burst to assassinate most squishies in the late game but I find my burst a bit lacking in the mid game.
Suggestions or adaptations to this build?

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Go Tear > Ghostblade > Boots > Muramana > BC/Trinity (NEVER both) > Situational > Situational

Situational items are Duskblade, Death's Dance, Maw, Lord Doms, Mortal Reminder, Sterak's, GA, Bloodthirster and Edge of Night. Pick 2 of those and hit 40% CDR (so at least a DD/Maw/CDR Runes/Lucid boots)

The mid game will be a lot stronger with Ghostblade. Compared to Death's Dance the 15 Lethality will be about 9-12 Armour pen in the mid game (which is a lot more than it seems) a cheaper item overall and better map pressure (movement speed on active and the out of combat MS are not to be underrated).

Don't finish manamune until you're getting close to getting the full muramana. The stats it gives alone aren't worth getting until at least 500 tear stacks.

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