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PSA: Assassin Jarvan Mid counters Kog'maw and Jinx.

Blastermine·4/17/2015, 2:25:20 PM·7 votes·1,217 views

Since everyone is complaining about the Tank Meta, and as a result picking hypercarries, I thought that people should know that JarvanIV makes an excellent assassin mid.

He hard counters squishy immobile champions like KogMaw and Jinx. He has an armor shred to help counter armor stacking. If He's behind, he can build tank and still be useful (unlike Zed). If He's ahead, he can hard cc 100-0 people (unlike Zed ). His ultimate works extremely well with the popular tank junglers. If you go mid, you still have good roaming capability, AND you actually have enough gold to stack damage. Since his nerfs and the Cinderhulk buffs, you no longer have idiots saying that he's too good in the jungle to take anywhere else. He also has good waveclear for a melee champion.

I really do wonder why people can't seem to figure this out.

11 Comments

Drunk Rummate4/17/2015, 3:57:15 PM4 votes

The problem is that even with full damage he will never be able 100-0 unless he's super far ahead. He has a super strong early-mid game but falls off soooo hard late game, right when the champions you picked him to 'counter' start ramping up.

Idk I play a lot of Jinx and I've never really had a lot of problems with full AD Jarvan. You side step the EQ and his ult +auto does about 40% of your hp, then you win the fight inside his cataclysm or you flash out and run.

Buttigieg 20204/18/2015, 1:45:22 AM4 votes

You are counter picking the counter picks to the meta. Nice

metaworldpeace104/17/2015, 8:43:17 PM3 votes

Ya, Jarvan is a pretty flexible pick and has been for 3 seasons now.

Raja Chachki4/17/2015, 2:26:24 PM1 votes

sounds good, but what's his build? just curios

BluePolarizer4/17/2015, 9:36:52 PM1 votes

Been playing full damage J4 top lane earlier this season, never took him mid since I am a mediocre mid. I think he's decent.

My usual build was JarvanIV summoner 14 summoner 4 item 3077 item 3142 item 3035 item 1001 then upgrade to whatever is needed for the game.

Final build usually was something like item 3074 item 3142 item 3143 item 3035 item 3156 item 3047 .

DoFr4/17/2015, 5:22:20 PM1 votes

i'd build him similar to talon

but hey, nobody is going to care about this until someone actually plays him in the lcs, just think the urgot event

before that you'd probably get reported for trolling

colesy4/17/2015, 2:36:58 PM1 votes

ad jarvan is scary to play against in the top lane as well, he q + autos you and you're like 100-60'd

XxxLumberJackxxX4/17/2015, 3:43:04 PM1 votes

You are forgetting that his base dmg+ ratios are better than Zed's too...