I'm not a Jayce main, but I do play quite a lot of jayce (I played him before worlds, no bandwangoning) and I was wondering if a Jayce main could answer if a build around 
would work. It gives extra Health, mana, health regen, gives you the speed boost+slow (which i have tested is great on Jayce) and also the Catalyst passive, so you dont need a 
and sometimes no 
either.I would build this as a second item after boots, maybe getting a 
? Thoughts?
morris11 votesI don't play Jayce at all but I can almost certainly say it's not a good idea. If you want pure defensive items then Guardian Angel, otherwise no. And just taking Righteous Glory won't justify leaving core items like Muramana and Youmuu's.
Jinzo Torrance1 votesYou don't need tear anyway, New tear is garbage on him, manage mana in lane using the mana gain passive on his melee W by hitting minion or scuttler, most people go ham if they see you in hammer form but you easily show who's the boss (Q>W>AA>AA>E>R>AA>W>>3AA>Q>E and they suddendly learn that the the guy with the hammer is Jayce and not a big fighter minion).
Youmuus is pretty core on him (ArPen, AS, MS, CDR), and that build doesn't hit 40%CD (probs 10%CD in runes?), the health regen is not even counted as a positive stats, the speedboost and slow of Righteous Glory is not fully used properly, after you did a ranged Q>E>W combo and then transforming (while T2 boots) is enough speed (you reach a maximum speed cap), and your melee Q already slows slows and honestly by this time you already killed any squishy, maybe you need to use melee E though.
Righteous glory is an item build to hard engage a team fight (by some champion who want to engage a 5v5 and champion with grab skills, Blitz, Tresh, Nautilus for example), and Jayce teamfight is weird, after you do ranged Q>E what? You either attempt to dive backline, so you try to sacrifice yourself for a pick, or you defend yours with a 75% slow (I mean you also use you other skills but Rightous Glory gives you a slow).
You are better off with a Youmuus for increased splitpushing and dueling or Death Dance so you son't die to tanks and can heal during a fight by using you skillls IMHO.
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Order may vary (BC>Death Dance>Youmuus against tanks or bruiser in toplane starting with Phage)
Saphixia1 votesMust say I am a little Rusty, I played Jayce a lot more last season, and I'm pretty sure back then best build was situational item 
. I try not to use sites like Champion.gg and MobaFire, but I'm going to trust you with this build it seems pretty legitimate. I thought that with the popularity of Jayce almost bound to spike during worlds I should get in and show them how to do it (although it seems Kennen is a LOT more popular) Thankyou for the in-depth explanation, I'm sure it took a lot of your time.
If you could, can you try to explain to me what you do against ranged opponents in lane? It is very hard to snowball as top lane Vayne/Ashe/Gnar/Kennen tend to stop me mid Q. Anything I can do to stop this?
Jinzo Torrance1 votesWith Gnar you want to keep your trades short otherwise he will win with his W and kite with E, your combo should be ranged Q>E>R>Q>AA>E, or just melee Q>AA>E, nothing more. Throw in more auto if he's in Mega-form and he's not 6 (or doesn't have ult) and dodge his W stun. Max E second against him,
Kennen just needs an early Hexdrinker rush, his ult might be problematic but you have both E and you can melee Q away, still don't dive him if you're not sure about killing before he can stun you.
ADC in general lose versus you at any point in the game 1v1, Draven is tricky and maybe full MS Vayne too can give you trouble early game, so wait at least level 3 against them. You might need Ignite against those 2 but I personally never see someone go ADC top, especially if they have no escape.
As for some tips on not letting them stop your melee Q, I don't really have good advices. You could try to E them and then Q to them, or just wait them for using their displacement or Q from a bush, it just happens if they time their CC precisily.
Also I misstyped, you go BC>Death Dance>Youmuus against tanks, go Phage>Youmuus>T2 boots against bruiser, also use a lot your brush if you are in top lane agaisnt melee champs. AA>go in brush(resetting minion aggro)>AA is really the only way you can win against the likes of Jax, Irelia and Fiora.