Talk:Jayce/@comment-79.185.239.74-20120704203111/@comment-174.252.42.95-20120705035631

Remember the cooldowns on that E, it sounds like it does a lot, but it is really used to set up or finish a champion, else it does more harm than good, ie. Pushing people away. For some reason everyone only thinks in terms of damage, fact of the matter is, people dont waste that kind of utility by spamming it willy nilly, I think you will see on release that it is proper use of the E that splits bad players from good.

But I digress, the order of skills largely depends on role. For a carry, R>Q>E>W is the way to go, for a bruiser/offtank top R>E>Q>W might be better, and for a jungler things would be even more complex, starting W, E, R, E, then prioritizing R>E>Q>W.

If your thinking of playing him as a bruiser, you might want to look at how jax plays, level his leap early, but maxing his main damage ability empower first; for jayce this translates to getting a level in Q early, but leveling E afterwards for damage.

If you want to play him as a carry, you'll probably have to decide between playing more like an AD caster or like a traditional autoattack champion, both build AD, but a caster jayce would prioritize Q highest of all, where an auto attack jayce would focus on his W. Late game there would be little difference, but early, this affects how you play.

As a jungler a high damage AOE is necessary in the begining, or at least for jayce, start W, then taking E to both have a safeguard against enemy counterjungling via knockback as well as to kite the red buff easily. Afterwards you pick up your Q as a gap closer and proceed to gank, leveling up your abilities as you need them.

Like I said, your skill order is largely dependent on how you wish to play jayce, a skilled player will learn every way of playing him and be able to switch roles in order to counter and play as best as possible. These are just my opinions, but judging by his kit's damage and scaling I doubt they are far off.