Help against Jayce

Velasan·Nov 10, 2014·1 votes·341 views

This is not a complaining thread. In actuality I've only played Jayce once during a free week and don't really understand how he works other than he seems to have long cooldowns.

However, he's becomming FOTM due to being in the championships and now I play against him all the time. How do you counter a Jayce? The constant switching between forms means there is no great way to engage on him and the shockblast chunks for way too much damage typically. I've won some of my games vs Jayce, but I'd like to have a consistent counter strategy.

4 Comments

Nausicäa Nov 10, 20141 votes

First step, look up his abilities, its not hard.

VelasanNov 10, 20141 votes

Ty for the replies and I already did hence knowing his long cooldowns. Seeing that he has said abilities doesn't give me a good idea of how to counter him. It's only a starting point.

I tried lissandra and did ok, didn't quite work though. Also the "countering page" on the league wiki is a little vague and doesn't say much except to try anyone with very long range. So I'll have to try that next.

GrimspeakeNov 10, 20141 votes

either go the range route like ziggs and try to have a poke off get someone with a fair amount of hard cc pick an assassin who can 100-0 him before he can switch to hammer and knock u away

ThePurpleKnightNov 10, 20141 votes

Okay so training wheel champ, little you can do about it, but there are a few things.

So when Jayce runs out of mana, he is significantly weaker, his ranged poke combo is stronger than most ultimate's, Riot has a thing for outrageously stupid ideas like this but just go with it. There is a downside to this combo, it costs a lot of mana, if he OOMs, he will attempt to restore mana in cannon form. As Nidalee, I would take this opportunity to zone him, harass and if he comes close enough all in him, he is not a strong auto attacker, which is good considering he is a strong everything else.

The other thing I can tell you isn't as much help but still, champions to play into Jayce. There are two things you want, and Almost no overlap.

You want champions that can close a gap twice, champions like Irelia, Nidalee, Akali, Diana ect.

However here is where the problem lies, you need champions that on top of the above can win 1v1 against Jayce in an all in. Aka other training wheel champs. Things like Volibear, Darius, and Nasus can be good but lack the gap closers.

Because of this lack of overlap, most Jayce match ups come down to nearly no counter play and it's on the skill of the Jayce, a relatively easy champion, who starts lane with a free win, and it's just about execution, and not throwing it. #trainingwheelchamps

I would recommend playing Zed, Wukong or Akali into Jayce, I have little experience doing it, however I do understand the champions enough that I think these are some of the better champions to go against him.

Hard to knock away Zed if he's untargetable. Wukong can go in a bush, stealth and then surprise, getting knocked back to immediately use E to close the gap, Idk if he can win the 1v1, but I do know his damage is bullshit enough that mid Wukong is a thing simply due to his ability to half health in a second at level 2. Lastly Akali after 6 should be able to beat him, she has the multiple gap closers necessary, Idk about the power, issue is surviving until then, but that's most Akali match ups.