J4 needs a buff to his early game ganking or late game engage.

BluePolarizer··2 votes·616 views

Right now J4 is struggling both top and jungle.

He is an early game burst damage ganker that transitions into an engage tank later. Usually he builds 1 damage item then full tank.

Raising his later damage doesn't help him. He's not used for his late game damage, although it is substantial. He's used for his early damage.

The big thing is making his clears or laning easier and him more dangerous in lane. It's sad too, because he is sooo close to being balanced instead of underpowered.

That means he needs passive armor or damage reduction back (at the least) and his cast animations should be smoothed out so he spends less time winding up his Q and more time whacking people.

Even these tiny buffs would likely increase his win rate to around 50%.

4 Comments

Beldair2 votes

If you can't gank at lvl 3 then you have problems.

I play J4 jungle and top and do exceptionally well. I gank at lvl 3 and make the enemy wish they had banned him.

In top, i poke whenever possible with Q. Then once i am lvl 2, i wait for the chance to strike and use my flag/q combo and deal some damage that way.

My true power comes at lvl 6 when i trap my opponent in the cataclysm and destroy them.

CppL1 votes

Lol ,he"s far from underpowered.Just cause he"s not top tier pick ,it doesn't mean he need buffs.

TaoistMaster1 votes

Why the downvotes?

OP has some good points.

BluePolarizer1 votes

because too many silvers think that they win once with a champ, he's OK. it's the same reason why they think Kindred isn't OP, because some silver Kindred messed up a gank and "wow terribad champ, item dependent slow farming mana hungry no CC squishy, can't gank can't scale can't do anything".

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