Any speical tips on mana management for jayce?

Kimuto·Oct 8, 2017·2 votes·1,584 views

I remember back in the day when I'm bronze, jayce was my main. Oh the good old times when I rush tear first to fix the mana problems... I tried to play jayce without the tear and wow, my mana went to dirt so quickly before I realize it... holy. Maybe I keep using abilities unnecessary. Am I not suppose to use my abilities to farm cuz I do that a lot. This is the first champion that I have huge mana problems (well without tear). Is it a good idea to go tear on jayce today? Is that still a thing or no?

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DeathBurstOct 8, 20173 votes

So keep in mind, I'm totally NOT a Jayce main, so take everything I said with a grain of salt. That being said, I'm still a Top main and I play AGAINST Jayce a lot.

From what I can see, no, most Jayce don't buy Tear anymore. Generally it's Black Cleaver or Youmuu. You should mostly farm using your basic attacks in cannon form, and keep your spells to trade with your opponent. Also keep in mind that you regain Mana when you're in Hammer Form each time you basic attack, even minions. So when you're short on Mana, you can just turn Hammer Form on and get some back. Of course it's a bit risky, since you need to be closer to your opponent, but knowing when to do it is an important part of Jayce Mana Management.

Darkdemon653Oct 8, 20171 votes

Don't Q without E unless you WILL hit the enemy
Don't use melee's W
Farm with melee form as much as you can

TakeAGuessNerdOct 8, 20171 votes

i play jayce a decent amount of time, so i do have some experience on him, but i haven't mastered him or anything. Anyways, jayce nowadays rushes lethality, especially item 3142 , I'm sure you could still build item 3070 , but I'm not sure if it's effective.

As to deal with the mana problems, just don't use your ranged abilities too much unless it's a guaranteed hit. Melee W passive restores mana, and I'm sure you know what to do when you're getting low on mana in ranged.

But what you can do is before switching to melee form, use your ranged w, switch, and attack something. This will still retain the ranged W's attack speed, and since you switched to melee, you'll be getting mana back. You can use this to trade or damage tower while still gaining back mana faster.