Talk:Jarvan IV/@comment-4638923-20121120131850/@comment-3477331-20121128204841

Gold items give you passive gold. You will have that gold no matter what happens, whether you get kills or get destroyed. So that basically gives you a safety net.

Wriggles gives you faster clearing and more dueling power. (more so against physical damage) This item is for farming the jungle, fighting an opposing jungler and also for dragon. It also makes your ganks a bit more effective because you deal more damage.

Doran's Blade gives you early game power. It's mostly for ganking. It won't increase your clear speed like wriggles nor will it give the fighting power wriggles gives. If you get Doran's Blade you have to gank successfully, else you will fall behind having spent 475 gold and 1 inventory spot or 950 gold and two spots on an item that has little to no strength mid to lategame.

For further itemization, you basically have to routes to choose: The supportive tank one and the offensive one.

If you did well early game, got some kills and assists go offensive. Use the money to make their Carries explode. You can do that with a triforce or high AD items such as Bloodthirster, Maw, Last Whisper... if you have started crushing faces. continue crushing faces, because you just developed into the carry by doing that.

If you don't do well though, you should fall back on being supportive and allow other teammates to be the offensive force. Supportive means Aegis, Shurellia's if your team needs that, Frozen Heart and Randuins. Cooldown Reduction plays a big part for Jarvans supportive capabilities, as his CC, his aura and his debuffs scale with it.

Frozen Mallet also works as supportive item choice, BUT only if your team is doing well. Having a constant slow can be great if your team needs it (if they win teamfightes but a couple of enemies walk away with a sliver of health) but it won't help you if you don't win the fight. You're better of getting a trinity from the phage or leaving it at the phage and getting supportive/cdr items.

And this applies to a lot of junglers. You want to be save? Get gold items. You want strong ganks? Get Doran's or Brutalizer and such stuff. You want control? Get wriggles. You are doing well? Go for offensive items that work with the champion. You are doing poorly? Get supportive items, cdr, auras, debuffs, tanky stuff.