Jayce/Strategy

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Skill Usage

• Jayce has a great variety of abilities at his disposal. Judicious use of different combinations grants him excellent flexibility, able to adjust for most situations.
• If you are in your Mercury Hammer form and need to quickly relocate, you can use your transform into the Mercury Cannon, giving you extra movement speed thanks to your passive and then immediately placing Acceleration Gate will give you a further significant speed boost.
  • Additionally, casting Acceleration Gate, passing through it and then firing Shock Blast back through it will likely deal considerable damage to your pursuer, forcing him back or allowing you to finish him off with Hyper Charge and To the Skies! combo.
  • Also, when firing Shock Blast through an Acceleration Gate, the range and damage on the Shock Blast is greatly increased allowing for high poking potential in the laning phase.
• If you are being poked under your tower, quickly casting To the Skies! on a group of minions will clear them and damage your opponent. While they are slowed, you can use Thundering Blow to knock them back into tower range for a potential surprise kill.
  • If jungling and a tower is being pushed, you can combo Shock Blast and Acceleration Gate to quickly clear a group of minions and then Thundering Blow the enemy champion into the tower and finish with To the Skies!
• Changing forms introduces an entirely new set of abilities that do not share the same cooldown timer with the other set of abilities. Changing forms twice will not cause an ability to go off cooldown any sooner.
• Hyper Charge's Attack damage and attack speed boost can affect attacks dealt by the hammer. Combine this with the magic damage from the switch and the leap from To the Skies! and finish with Thundering Blow to deal a quick and powerful combo.
  • The magic damage from the switch also affects structures. Combined with the huge attack boost from his Hyper Charge, this can also take down towers very quickly.
• Hyper Charge can be used to destroy enemy Wards before they dissapear after they are placed.
• Shock Blast's explosion can reveal the Fog of War and grant vision in brush for a small period.
• Thundering Blow has the capability to knock enemies over thin walls.
• Lightning Field can be very useful when trying to destroy minion waves and jungle camps.
  • Lightning Field's passive allows easy mana recovery.
• When in Hammer Stance, To the Skies! makes an excellent gap closer, and grants the oppurtunity to unload deadly ability combinations.
• Hextech Capacitor's ability to ignore unit collision and increased movement speed can allow great positioning for singling out particular enemies, especially when they are attempting an escape.
  • When an enemy is escaping, use Transform: Mercury Hammer to switch to Hammer Stance. Then, with the extra movement speed and the ability to ignore unit collision, move through the enemy until you are located in front of them. Then use Thundering Blow to knock them back. If they are too far away to catch with the movespeed alone, To the Skies! can be used as a gap closer, slowing them and even further disrupting an attempted escape.
• Most of Jayce's abilities do not interrupt movement or attack animations.
  • Transform: Mercury Cannon, Transform: Mercury Hammer, Lightning Field, placement of Acceleration Gate, and the activation of Hyper Charge do not interrupt movement.
• It is to be kept in mind that Jayce's Mercury Cannon has a much faster attack animation than his Mercury Hammer. This makes last hitting minions much easier to accomplish while ranged rather than as melee.
• As Acceleration Gate will also speed up allies in addition to yourself, casting it immediately in your team's path can help greatly when attempting a unified retreat or chase attempt.
• Even though Thundering Blow does not scale off a target's missing health, it can be used as an execute-style ability. Keep your eye on the opponent's health and cast Thundering Blow when they have reached the same % of their health as it will deal for a safe kill.

Build Usage

• Jayce can successfully be built as an AD carry or tanky AD caster depending on his team's needs. The AD caster build largely focuses on his Mercury Hammer and his carry build revolves around use of his Mercury Cannon.
• Jayce synergizes extremely well with movement speed items due to his many position-dependant abilities. Consider taking items and spells such as Boots of Swiftness, Zeal and Ghost.
• Trinity Force is an extremely useful item for Jayce regardless of his build, as he benefits at least moderately from all the stats it provides. He can proc its passive effects regularly as he will be making repeated use of his spells and autoattacks in combat.
• Stacking attack speed on Jayce can be largely redundant as he already has a powerful attack speed steroid in the form of his Hyper Charge. Focusing instead on attack damage items can be more beneficial on him.
• Because of the passive mana recovery on his Lightning Field, Jayce is more restricted by his health than by his mana in the laning phase. Building some early health regeneration or life steal with items such as a Regrowth Pendant or Vampiric Scepter can allow Jayce to stay in a lane for a very long time.
• Offensively, most of Jayce's damage is on the physical side, making armor penetration items such as The Brutalizer and Last Whisper very effective on him.
  • The Black Cleaver is a very strong item for Jayce when combined with his Hyper Charge and Transform: Mercury Cannon , as he can very quickly get all three reduction stacks on an opponent and cut a very significant portion of their armor away.
• Frozen Mallet combines well with Jayce's exception chasing abilities by slowing the opponent and making it extremely difficult to escape from him. It also grants a large amount of health, letting him stay in a fight for much longer.
• Cooldown reduction can be a useful stat to itemize for on Jayce because of the utility his spells afford him.
• The active effect of Shurelya's Reverie synergizes very well with the team-wide movement speed boost his Acceleration Gate gives, allowing Jayce and his team to relocate extremely rapidly in an emergency. It also builds out of Philosopher's Stone, an item which will largely solve any sustain problems in the early game, and Kindlegem, granting much-needed cooldown reduction and health.
• Once he has obtained at least 20% cooldown reduction, Jayce is capable of permanently maintaining all eight stacks of Guinsoo's Rageblade outside of combat, as his Transform: Mercury Hammer and Transform: Mercury Cannon are both free to cast.
• Against a magic damage-heavy team, Jayce can opt to use either a Maw of Malmortius or Wit's End as sources of AD-focused magic resistance. A Maw of Malmortius arguably benefits him more because of Hyper Charge's attack speed steroid and superior attack damage scaling, but by the same token Hyper Charge can also let him very quickly build the passive stacks on Wit's End and offers higher magic resistance.

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