Best Builds and Guide to Play Jayce Top Lane in Season 14

Best Builds and Guide to Play Jayce Top Lane in Season 14

By Marcus Chen

November 24, 2024 at 03:54 PM

Jayce is a versatile top-lane champion who excels at poking enemies from range before committing to all-in engagements.

Core Build:

  • Summoner Spells: Flash, Teleport
  • Starting Items: Long Sword, Refillable Potion
  • Core Items: Eclipse, Ionian Boots of Lucidity, Manamune
  • Final Items: Serylda's Grudge, Edge of Night, Guardian Angel

Key Runes:

  • Primary: Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand
  • Secondary: Biscuit Delivery, Magical Footwear
  • Shards: Adaptive Force (x2), Health Scaling

Ability Order: Q > W > E

Strong Against:

  • Smolder (57.4% WR)
  • Sylas (55.7% WR)
  • Swain (52.0% WR)
  • Ryze (51.9% WR)
  • Aurora (51.3% WR)

Weak Against:

  • Tahm Kench (40.4% WR)
  • Cho'Gath (40.9% WR)
  • Poppy (42.3% WR)
  • Malphite (42.7% WR)
  • Urgot (42.8% WR)

Essential Tips:

  1. Utilize your range advantage to poke enemies consistently
  2. Conserve mana early game - maintain enough for disengage
  3. Focus on poking with Q before committing to all-in fights
  4. Coordinate with your jungler for optimal ganking opportunities

Best Synergies:

  • Volibear (52.8% WR)
  • Rammus (52.4% WR)
  • Bel'Veth (51.3% WR)
  • Nunu & Willump (51.0% WR)
  • Karthus (50.7% WR)

Alternative Build Options:

  1. First Strike Build:

    • Primary: First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight
    • Secondary: Manaflow Band, Transcendence
    • Core Items: Same as standard build
  2. Tank Build:

    • Primary: Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth
    • Secondary: Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery
    • Situational Items: Maw of Malmortius for magic resistance

Current Performance: 48.4% overall win rate based on 9,083 matches in Emerald+ ranking.

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