Talk:Jarvan IV/@comment-4499945-20130303163627/@comment-15562896-20130304061604

It's not only the new skin, AR aura became better since Aegis was nerfed and armor in general became more expensive, %age armor shred became more interesting since people tend to stack quite a bit of armor making the shred more powerful (while in s2 apart from your jungler, noone would really build tanky.. your jax/irelia top would build TF and GA, etc).

Stacking shreds also became more powerful due to the new way of calculating armor penetration (S3 Black Cleaver in S2 on MF would have made LW significantly less effective, while now it only makes it stronger).

Also people realized you can use many champions to get amazing combos off.. Orianna, Xerath, MF, Wukong, even incredibly underplayed champs such as Viktor and Malzahar - that typically don't see any competitive play - work very well with Jarvan.

Not to mention with the new FOTM BOTRK, the AS aura is better than it has ever been. It even opens up new horizons for Jarvan himself. He can be typically be played as a burst damage anti-carry (much like Lee Sin or Xin Zhao) or as a tanky initiator, or something in between those.. but the new BOTRK is actually very good on him as it makes his innate AS buff even more valuable. Jarvan can now be viably built as a sustained damage dealer...