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[S13] The Hammer Bible - The Second Coming of Hextech Jesus
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Jayce Build Guide By desch3445
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Midlane (Better in every way possible)
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Toplane (Ugh, if you MUST know)
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Recommended Items
Runes: Conqueror Page
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+8 Magic Resist
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Items
Ability Order Patch 13.0 W Second
Threats & Synergies
Threats
Synergies
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Extreme Threats
Ideal Synergies
Syndra
There is absolutely no way in hell you can engage on her, outdamage her, or even make it out of the lane unscathed unless the Syndra you're up against is a Kindergartener with no fingers and a late stage terminal illness. Take the First Strike or Conqueror page; You're not gonna be doing jack shit to her in lane or out of lane, so you may as well just try to win from other lanes.
Viktor
If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go I can take you places you ain't never been before Baby take a chance or you'll never ever know I got money in my hands that I'd really like to blow Swag, swag, swag on you Chillin by the fire while we eatin' fondue I dunno about me but I know about you So say hello to falsetto in three, two I'd like to be everything you want Hey girl, let me talk to you If I was your boyfriend, never let you go Keep you on my arm girl, you'd never be alone I can be a gentleman, anything you want If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go, I'd never let you go Tell me what you like yeah tell me what you don't I could be your Buzz Lightyear fly across the globe I don't never wanna fight yeah, you already know I am 'ma a make you shine bright like you're laying in the snow Girlfriend, girlfriend, you could be my girlfriend You could be my girlfriend until the world ends Make you dance do a spin and a twirl and Voice goin crazy on this hook like a whirl wind Swaggie I'd like to be everything you want Hey girl, let me talk to you If I was your boyfriend, never let you go Keep you on my arm girl you'd never be alone I can be a gentleman, anything you want If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go, I'd never let you go So give me a chance, 'cause you're all I need girl Spend a week with your boy I'll be calling you my girlfriend If I was your man, I'd never leave you girl I just want to love you, and treat you right If I was your boyfriend, never let you go Keep you on my arm girl you'd never be alone I can be a gentleman, anything you want If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go, Never let you go Na na na, na na na, na na na Ya girl Na na na, na na na, na na na ey Na na na, na na na, na na na ey Na na na, na na na, na na na ey If I was your boyfriend Death to any who besmirch the good name of JayVik.
Synergies
Viktor
If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go I can take you places you ain't never been before Baby take a chance or you'll never ever know I got money in my hands that I'd really like to blow Swag, swag, swag on you Chillin by the fire while we eatin' fondue I dunno about me but I know about you So say hello to falsetto in three, two I'd like to be everything you want Hey girl, let me talk to you If I was your boyfriend, never let you go Keep you on my arm girl, you'd never be alone I can be a gentleman, anything you want If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go, I'd never let you go Tell me what you like yeah tell me what you don't I could be your Buzz Lightyear fly across the globe I don't never wanna fight yeah, you already know I am 'ma a make you shine bright like you're laying in the snow Girlfriend, girlfriend, you could be my girlfriend You could be my girlfriend until the world ends Make you dance do a spin and a twirl and Voice goin crazy on this hook like a whirl wind Swaggie I'd like to be everything you want Hey girl, let me talk to you If I was your boyfriend, never let you go Keep you on my arm girl you'd never be alone I can be a gentleman, anything you want If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go, I'd never let you go So give me a chance, 'cause you're all I need girl Spend a week with your boy I'll be calling you my girlfriend If I was your man, I'd never leave you girl I just want to love you, and treat you right If I was your boyfriend, never let you go Keep you on my arm girl you'd never be alone I can be a gentleman, anything you want If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go, Never let you go Na na na, na na na, na na na Ya girl Na na na, na na na, na na na ey Na na na, na na na, na na na ey Na na na, na na na, na na na ey If I was your boyfriend Death to any who besmirch the good name of JayVik.
Champion Build Guide
If you haven't heard, 13.0 is bringing some much needed Jayce love, here's the numbers:
Base AD 54 >> 57
Melee Q +10dmg at all ranks
Melee W +10dmg per tick all ranks
While to some these numbers may look pathetic, remember that W has 4 ticks, and Jayce's base AD is the reason he hasn't been able to go toe to toe with some Toplane bruisers for a while. At minimum your early burst is going to go up by 24dmg, but now it may actually be worth sticking onto your opponent in melee range because it does 140 DAMAGE TOTAL.
Ultimately this just makes Jayce have a much better early game. You can consider starting Doran's Blade now for early pressure, and consider taking W 2nd for a powerful all-in. Go forth and powerslam cheeks, my children. o7
Ahem, where was I?
Jayce has rune & build variety up the wazoo, range that would make a Caitlyn player cry and brown their daipy, and snowball potential potential that has Katarina players across the face of Summoner's Rift malding and typing racial slurs with more APM than a Korean Starcraft 2 player. There is just so many different playstyles all in one neat bundle in this champ, and that's why I love him when he's cancerbroken and when he's absolute dogwater, Jayce is my true love, and if you like champs that can just do it all, then Jayce is your man.
Do be aware though, he is incredibly difficult (Not quite Aurelion Sol or Azir difficult, but still pretty hard), so don't be too mad if you get stomped for like your first 20 games on this champ. If you stick with him and really learn what he can do, you'll have the time of your life, I promise.
Often times, a good Jayce can be seen sniping ADCs for 60% of their health bar from across the map, and 1-shotting poor, poor midlaners that dare to facecheck a bush. It's the funniest thing to watch them scream and whine like babies in /all chat not knowing you're playing a C tier champion.
Oh, and did you know by 3 items you can see a Jayce just casually knock over any turret in like 6 autos? Yeah, Jayce is just like Yorick, but objectively way hotter.
Jayce also has some pretty mediocre waveclear compared to other Midlaners. Sure, you could spam accelerated Shockblast on the wave, but remember that bit about mana? It's best to wait to shove/roam until you've got Dirk + Tear, so you've got the damage AND the mana to expend on it.
Jayce also gets absolutely dogged on by Tanks, he has somewhere around a 30% winrate vs Nasus, Ornn, Maokai, etc. He just doesn't have the raw early damage to deal with them before they get their resists, and you can really only start to build armpen around 3rd-4th item, as you're going to NEED your Eclipse & Manamune as early as possible. This is the reason many Jayce mains prefer going Midlane as opposed to Toplane, 'cause there's MUCH less of a chance to see Tanks go there. If by chance, you do come across a tank mid, God save your soul.
Jayce also has pretty much 0 build malleability, if you ever stray from the god-given path of rushing Dirk>Tear>Eclipse>Muramana>Serylda's, you're gonna have a bad time, you won't deal nearly as much damage as you could, and good luck winning literally any fights.
And by far the worst part, Jayce is one of those champions where if you ever, EVER fall behind, you're not coming back. You have ZERO pressure, ZERO ability to do ANYTHING, so it is absolutely pivotal that you must look for a lead and DON'T LOSE IT. Latch on like a Pittbull doing what Pittbulls do, SEEK BLOOD AND DESTROY EVERYTHING.
Also Jayce mains are absolute snobs with superiority complexes. These people have never had to deal with an opinion that isn't theirs in their life. If you're a Jayce main reading this and getting mad, you know I'm right. Know that maining this champ, you may be exposed to them, and it's not a nice experience.
Jayce's Shockblast can be buffered, which means you can cast other abilities during its animation, which means rather than placing your acceleration gate first, and then shooting your shockblast through it, Q and then E directly in front of you for an incredibly fast empowered shockblast! Also, much like Urgot's E - Flash, you can Q - Flash for an almost impossible to react to projectile, and if you're fast enough, empower it with your gate!
Hypercharge is an auto-attack reset, so you can AA - W - AA - AA - AA for an incredibly fast 4 auto combo! Also, your W does not end if you switch forms, so you can get 3 very fast melee autos, which is useful if you're running Conqueror, or taking early tower plates!
In melee form, if you input an auto-attack command while in range and then quickly knock the target back, your E animation will go through first, and your auto will follow them well outside your actual auto attack range.
Buffering Q and placing the gate second can feel very janky at first, but if you place your cursor over where you want to shoot, start the shockblast, quickly sling your mouse back in front of you, and then place your gate, you will become MUCH more accurate.
Probably one of the best trading tools is using an accelerated shockblast on a minion or group of minions your opponent is right next to, evaporating the wave AND like a quarter of their health bar. Watch them seethe and mald and cope and sneed, you're Jayceing now!
Both Shockblast & Acceleration Gate grant vision where they land. If you shockblast a jungle monster, or place an Acceleration Gate over it, you can switch to melee form and leap onto it, effectively creating a wall hop! Try it when you're running away in a lane, or chasing someone into the jungle!
Your melee Q animation can be cancelled by any emote (Laugh, taunt, dance, etc). Not in the sense that it saves any time, rather think of Zac's jump sometimes being a very fast walk. Using this, Jayce's Q animation can seem much less obvious to the enemy, and can possibly give you the edge.
Jayce has a combo specific to the rune Hextech Flashtraption. If you melee Q while channeling Hexflash, the channel is canceled. Unlike the animation cancel with the laugh emote, the channel cancel allows you to use other abilities in the middle of your Q cast, meaning you can start your E cast while you Q. Chain this with the AA input "ranged melee" mechanic, and that's your entire melee rotation. The kicker is, if done correct, this combo effectively outputs your entire melee rotation in 0.04s; Even though at lvl 4 with just a longsword it does around 300 dmg, according to a training mode dummy, the combo will read as somewhere around 6300 DPS.
Do keep in mind though, Hexflash can only be used out of combat, so it's best to be used out of a brush.
The full combo, Hexflash-Q E AA, is called a Hextap, and there's basically no counterplay to it.
(I included this here rather than the "Combos combos combos" section because of the unique inclusion of Hexflash, and how deep into explaination I went.)
(R)- QE
Fire an accelerated shockblast!
(R)- AA W AA AA AA
Fire 4 lightning speed autos!
(M)- Q W AA E
A quick burst of damage, followed by a knockback for safety!
(M)- Q W AA R W AA Q E AA AA
The standard all-in combo. A burst engage, followed by W for the auto reset to proc the cannon passive, shredding resists for the accelerated shockblast and final remaining 2 Hypercharge autos.
(R)- AA Q E W R Q W AA AA AA E
Technically this combo is more efficient, with the cannon passive auto starting off, therefore making the entire combo more efficient, but it leaves you off in melee form which isn't the greatest for any sort of followup. Use ONLY if you're in a bush waiting for a squishy.
(R)- Q E R Flash AA
This one requires much more APM than the other ones. While it doesn't do more raw damage, it is by far the fastest and hardest to react to burst combo.
(M)- Q Flash E
Think of this like an unnecessarily costly version of an Insec. If you call it a Jaycec I will skin you alive. Q to close the gap, flash mid-Q animation to get behind them, and E to knock them back into your team or wherever you want them. It's pretty difficult, so please lab it out in practice tool before you go blowing your flash in your ranked games. Note that this also completely cancels the damage and slow of your Q, so don't rely on that.
(R)- Q Flash E
Q buffering also allows for summoner spells such as flash. You can start the Q animation, flash, and then bring up the gate for a surprise shockblast that is much closer than the enemy could've anticipated. Also, a variation if this is by far Jayce's hardest mechanic, the Arcflash. The Arcflash requires you to start the Q animation, flash to the side, and bring the gate up in front of you. While that might not sound hard, it requires you to have a perfectly offset aim, and move your mouse incredibly fast and accurate.
I love all things Jayce, you can bet I died screaming when I heard Jayce was gonna be in Arcane (I thought it was sad that they didn't make him an absolute narcissist/douchebag like he is in lore, but that's alright because they nailed him as he is).
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