How would you describe this build

ValyrianBlade··1 votes·185 views

Just won a game, and the enemy ADC started chirping our team about damage dealt to champions (basically that he did the most and lost because of his team, w/e). I made a snarky reply that my damage was pretty darned good for a top laner (he had 26K damage, our ADC had 22K, I had 21.7K at third most [and way more than their top lane Kayle compared to their ADC versus our ADC).

Anyways, he responded, "you mean for a full damage Jarvan".

I told him not even a single one of my items was full damage, every item had some tankiness to it. To which him and what I can only presume was his duo asked if I was stupid.

So, how would you classify my build? I thought i did a pretty typical Bruiser / Tank build (especially against kayle top, katarina mid).

My build order: item 2033 item 3044 item 3111 item 3071 item 1011 item 3155 item 3742 item 3156 item 3052 item 3077

My build at the end of the game: item 3111 item 3071item 3742 item 3156 item 3052 item 3077

The item 3052 item 3077 were building in to item 3748

I'll also note that I had a 2 level lead on the map (I was 18, allied mid and jg were 16, highest on enemy were 15). I started 1/0/6 and finished 8/2/16 (huge improvement over the previous game where I started 1/0/6 and finished 1/4/6, lol).

Anyways, I'm getting off topic (I feel good, what can I say :) ). Is my build really damage heavy? Or is it appropriately tanky/bruiser-esque?

4 Comments

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

i really like building item 3053 with item 3748 they synergize with each other greatly

ValyrianBlade1 votes

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i really like building item 3053 with item 3748 they synergize with each other greatly

I won't build item 3053 if I build item 3156 - and I build Maw when I'm against AP in lane. I like Steraks as well, but I find often I don't have room for it in my builds. I want to cap out my CDR on J4 (I run 10% scaling CDR glyphs, and the 5% CDR cap mastery) so Cleaver puts me at 35% and I need another 10%. Thus, I often finish this build with item 3083. If I'm not against AP in lane, but the enemy team has AP, I go item 3102 instead of Maw. If they have no AP (or their AP isn't doing well) I like to get a second armor item (item 3143 ).

I wish there was room for Steraks, I especially love how it makes you "deceptively tanky". A lot of people will try to burst you down and be surprised by the shield. I just don't know what to drop for it, given I want the CDR (I love having 2 flags down at a time, being able to make some dope plays E-Q'ing then Q'ing back to the same flag, then E-Q'ing again for 3 dashes in 8 seconds).

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

i get ya im just saying the fact that item 3053 gives your base ad bonus and hp and item 3748 scales with hp . so they go hand and hand with each other and if you have enough hp you dont need the item 3156 when you have item 3053

Asayake 5150glow1 votes

It's more damage, not only do you only have 1 defensive item it's also the offensive defensive item (extra 100 damage on first hit, it's really good on J4 with his passive ^-^)

Black Cleaver and Maw are defensive damage items, while Titanic and Dead Man's are offensive tank items (titanic more so than Dead man's), so it's def a more damage oriented bruiser build.

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