[2.2] Jarvan Iv Guide - Jarvan Top :)
Jarvan Top :)
Pros
- Good poke in lane with Dragon Strike
- Is able to all in quickly with high damage
- Good teamfight and lockdown ultimate
- Excels early and mid game
- Hard to gank with flag and drag combo along with good base stats
- Passive armour shred and gives attack speed bonus to nearby allies
Cons
- Can be hard to farm with against melee champions
- Effectiveness drops off later into the game due to poor scaling
- Not a great splitpusher or 1v1 duelist unless really fed
Jarvan Iv Build
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Item Build Description
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The most commonly used build should be the TANK/BRUISER build.
Trinity Force
should be your first item in most cases. The increased damage after casting an ability synergises great with
Martial Cadence
strong damage. Alternatively, you can consider
Black Cleaver
if you need the extra armour penetration. This also stacks with your
Dragon Strike
to give up to 50% armour penetration.
Sterak's Gage
and
Guardian Angel
are very key items for both added tankiness and extra damage.
Dead Man's Plate
is also a great item to allow for better enagages with
Cataclysm
.
The ASSASSIN/LETHALITY build should be considered against low health teams with low tankiness, and when your team has lots of tankiness and engage such as
Galio
or
Alistar
. You should also be using the
Electrocute
rune to give the needed burst damage.
The rest of your items should be mostly defence items depending on what the enemy team is playing. For example against lots of mages and AP damage, consider
Force of Nature
As always, your boots and enchant items are dependent on what your team needs, but mostly you should consider
Glorious Enchant
and [locket enchant].
Jarvan Iv Runes
Best Runes for Jarvan Iv




This build should be used with your TANK/BRUISER build.
Jarvan Iv
loves to be in long fights especially because his combo can activate all 5 stacks of
Conqueror
very quickly.
Champion
is good for lots of damage early game and you will likely not be dying much as
Jarvan Iv
with lots of poke and your Flag + Drag combo. However,
Brutal
is also a solid option here for a more safer rune.
Lastly,
Jarvan Iv
can have mana issues quite frequently so
Manaflow Band
should be used here as it is very easy to keep the rune stacking with your poke.




This is for the ASSASSIN/LETHALITY build. Your combo makes it very easy to activate
Electrocute
and because you are dying more,
Brutal
should be taken instead of
Champion
.
Skill Order
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This will be your standard combo when going for an engage in most stages of the game. However, consider using
Golden Aegis
to slow the enemy in order to make it easier to hit your FLAG + DRAG COMBO which is (
Dragon Strike
+
Demacian Standard
)
Also if you are using
Dead Man's Plate
then you will have enough movement speed to engage with
Cataclysm
before doing your Flag + Drag combo.



If you are using the ASSASSIN/LETHALITY build then this combo is enough to activate
Electrocute
.
Jarvan Iv Matchups & Counters
Detailed information on how to play matchups and counters
Try to take out his passive shield with
Demacian Standard
. Then try to look to engage on him as you outrade him early game. Once he has items then be more cautious.

TL;DR
Jarvan IV is a tanky fighter/bruiser with the potential to be an assassin. Excels in teamfights against immobile teams and in the baron lane can actually perform relatively well, though probably not as well as jungle of course. A very versatile and currently strong champion while being easy to learn, with some skill expression to master.
That is all for this guide. Now go shout "DEMACIA" in their faces.

Counters
- [kaisa] because of her evolved [kaisa:3] and [kaisa:ult] make it hard to trap her.
-
Xayah and
Ezreal and
Tristana are a similar story with [kaisa]
-
Lulu can use [lulu:ult] on anyone trapped inside
Cataclysm and knock allies inside also making them hard to kill
-
Fiora and
Camille both can escape
Cataclysm and are much better at dueling and splitpushing.
-
Gragas can knock everyone away from
Cataclysm using
Explosive Cask

Champs with good synergy
-
Orianna is very good as
Command: Shockwave comboes nicely with
Cataclysm .
-
Olaf is good as you can trap enemies into your
Cataclysm with olaf and you inside also.
-
Seraphine is good similar to orianna because of
Encore and
Beat Drop are very big and easy to hit when enemies are trapped inside of
Cataclysm
-
Vayne can use
Condemn to stun people onto the walls of
Cataclysm and makes them very easy kills with
Silver Bolts .
- Assassins like
Katarina and
Zed combo well with
Cataclysm as they are all grouped together.
Katarina is especially good with
Death Lotus and
Voracity .
-
Galio has lots of area of affect (AOE) abilities so can take advantage of people being trapped together in
Cataclysm .
In general,
Jarvan Iv
works well with anyone that likes when enemiesnare grouped up together or if his teamates can join him in the ring.

Early game/Laning phase
Most of the time, look to poke the enemy with
Dragon Strike
then once they are low enough you can hard engage onto the enemy. Ideally, you would want to be at the first drake fight and later rift herald as you are an exceptional teamfighter. However, if you have used
Cataclysm
or you are far ahead of your opposing laner then consider staying at baron lane.

Mid Game
Ideally here you would have kncoked down their baron lane turrets or have lost your own. During this tine you should just be looking to join any fights that occur and be present for all drakes and objectives. This is where
Jarvan Iv
is at his strongest so make the most of it.

Late Game
This is where you are at your weakest due to your poor scaling you don't do enough damage and don't have enough health. Here your main priority is locking down key enemies with
Cataclysm
ready for your team to follow up. Always look to ult immobile players with no dashes etc.