Lets talk about Jayce
This topic has been bothering me for quite some time.
I talk from my current experience from all 3 of my accounts as a Jayce main since early season 3 with 2000+ Jayce games peaking at high plat.
Alright lets talk about Jayce and his core strengths/fundamentals in his game play in the current season so far. We can all agree that Jayce was in a very strong spot during the season 4 worlds competitive scene pre season 5.
The point im trying to bring across right now is that as the patches progressed in Season 5 Jayce has recieved nothing but nerfs plus descend as a champion.
Right now on max cdr after the W nerfs the damage output on his W on a full squish target on max build isn't even enough to down an full squish Ezreal during the cast time while putting yourself at risk from such close range making him useless in most team fights.
The chance of getting your W off during a teamfight is very low aswell; ex. regardless of the cdr being at 5 seconds without 40% cdr at max rank he still has to get the charges off which is a risk factor on its own to resets its cd. Getting more than one W off in a teamfight in the current season is highly unlikely anyways.
"Oh but he has such great poke and kiting potential!!!"
As the season progressed with the introduction of the bloodthirster becoming a mainstream core item on most adcs the poke factor of Jayce has been declined.
His kiting potential has been declined as well with the introduction of the Righteous Glory, Ludens Echo and Black Cleaver.
Regardless of the introduction of these items Jayce has recieved 0 compensation.
Inb4 Ahri usain bolt buffs from the removal of one item concluding in her having a massive rising winrate with very little skill involved in her kit creating more assassin type gameplay rather than kiting from which her kit is ment for.
Alright lets talk about current laning. For example lets talk about a favorable match-up against Jayce during lane phase. For example Darius is not even countered during lane phase vs Jayce 60% of the time right now due to the ability to insanely out damage and not being able to get kited because of Righteous Glory. This is as if you know how to itemize vs Jayce.
More of a mid laner right now, which has its own pros and cons and often has problems with not having a lot of AP on your team. Not going to get to much into the topic with the current tank meta making it easy to itemize vs your team.
Current meta, lane sustain starting off with multiple health/mana pots with teleport causing Jayce to lose his identity as a strong early game laner even though he has very high mana costs.
Meanwhile other champs with high dps such as Katarina, Fiddlesticks and Riven etc. can take down 4 targets in seconds with very little counter play and core strengths**_whilst Jayce sits as a very confused champion with very low single target damage with high cds after his W nerfs which was his core strength. Not to mention that he has insanely high mana costs that even affects him in his auto attacks. ** E.g average 24 minute marumana before powerspike.
Current stats patch 5.8, fourteenth lowest winrate with very little popularity Even Urgot is being seen more in the competitive seen and overall in LOL (sorry to Urgot players)
I just wish to see some diversity in champions such as Jayce and his slightly complex kit which in my opinion he is to weak for the amount of effort it takes to play him effectively.
I am very curious Riot, what is your current stance on Jayce?