Talk:Jarvan IV/@comment-128.153.217.146-20130306232617/@comment-4677525-20130307002153

Meh, it kinda balances out. I do like that they are giving him a bit extra armor per level, but but I would like to see a bit more of an increase on his base armor (losing 10 extra armor from the flag toss aura is pretty rough). At least his jungle clear-time will be unaffected since he the attack speed aura is still there, but he will definitely be noticeably squisher in both his jungle clears and initiates.

The buff to the shield is kind of interesting, though. It gives him 20 extra shield strength per enemy champ hit at max rank and the mana cost has been considerably decreased making it actually decent to take early on. It might make up for the loss of the armor aura, but we'll see.

All-in-all, I would say that removing the armor aura was completely the right place to hit J4. He has so much utility from his abilities already that this was a lot of unnecessary hidden power (especially with the increased value of armor in S3). While jungle Jarvan will still be going strong, I feel like this pretty much killed top-lane Jarvan imo.