He has strong ranged poke and movement in one kit, and then strong burst/dueling in his other kit. His passive gives him engage and disengage. It just feels like a lot for one champion. Does he have too much? Am I delusional? I'd like to hear what you guys have to say.
He lacks a meaningful ult and if he is too behind to be able to do substantial damage with poke he really isn't all that useful late game.
every shapeshift champs are overloaded
That's generally the issue with dual kit champions.
Not one complaint about Jayce until he became meta. And I'm pretty certain nothing has changed on him.
He has average early and poor late game poke. He is the worst designated poke champion in the game with a horrible build path if he chooses that route.
He runs out of mana like nobodies business unless you allow him to safely hammer stance farm for a full wave.
He has suprising burst but is squishy as hell so its very dangerous to all in people. That is what his Q+E is since he can only run back out.
All the people that have problems with Jayce, just play him yourself and learn his weakness's.
Full Disclosure: Jayce since S3
imo i was just playing a caitlyn game, had perfect cs n everything. The 0/0 jayce shock blasted me for 886. I was trippin because he had the same farm as me and im like that nearly fuckin 1 shotted me and i never remembered it doing that much damage to me as an adc.
I think the problem isnt jayce. I think the problem is this armor pen build being so good on anyone who wants it..
Im well aware jayces shock blast doesnt do that much damage with his older build idk i havent fought enough jayce to know but i think hes fine just the damage is too high because a.pen
i already said it once. they should only give him the knockback effect on his hammer stance e, if he hits an enemy with his cannon stance q first.
otherwise its just free burst+disengage on an otherwise long ranged poke champion.
what does jayce do? he sits there and pokes with his cannon q throughout the entire lane phase. if you catch him out of position and engage on him, he switches stances and uses the movement speed from his passive and te knockback from his hammer e to run away so he can resume poking.
any damage you deal to him, he heals up by lifestealing on minions.
if youd remove the knockback effect without hitting the cannon stance q first, hed suddenly take a bit more risk to play.
jayce right now with his kit has almost the same problems old nidalee used to have.
That's what he gets in return for not having a real ultimate, like Nidalee.
Now don't get me wrong, all that versatility is very powerful but sometimes you need a top laner that can make those sudden, big-impact plays like stunning the entire enemy team 
or forcing a CC initiation onto a well protected back line 
or ejecting half the enemy team out of combat 
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jayce is squishy
