J4 buffs. Time to admit that I was wrong.

So, I put a ton of threads saying how basically, these buffs were useless and crap and pushing J4 even more in the direction that I didn't want to see him go in...

But then after nearly a week of spaming him in the top lane and just utterly wrecking house, I think I need to admit that actually, his minor little adjustment was exactly what he needed.

Because he really doesn't feel at all different. It's such a minor increase in power that nothing about my game to game stats have changed. I'm doing about the same amount of damage, tanking the same amount of damage, KDA is about the same, (And you need to realize here that I don't play ANYONE else. Jarvan is what I play, not LoL.) but at the same time, that W buff is allowing me to actually win matchups that used to be super frustrating. Like Fiora. I can now W more often than she can riposte and that makes ALL the difference in outplaying her.

So I'm finding that I can get the advantage in lane more often. It's just that little bit easier to get the snowball rolling and that's all a good Jarvan ever needs to completely take over the mid game. And as long as you understand that you need to DO things with that lead, you can generally turn that into a win. I love doing things. It is my favorite part of the game. The part where I'm doing things.

But then that Ult buff ALSO makes it so that even if I'm the only one with damage on the team, I can lead the charge in the mid game and maybe win a fight that before we wouldn't have. I need to be fed for it to make a difference, but at least now when I get fed, I feel like I CAN make a difference with that little bit of extra burst. It doesn't do anything in the late game once defensive item builds are completed... But that's not when it's useful. It's useful in the mid game for winning skirmishes when your team is down and out.

AND THAT is the most Jarvan thing about these buffs. That is always what I have loved about him.

"Follow me Brothers and Sisters!"

Jarvan wins games not by CSing, not by farming the jungle, not by scaling into some inhumanly unstoppable monster... Just by being a manly man and fighting the enemies of Demacia... Or other Demacians on the other team... Or anyone in his way... And these little seemingly insignificant buffs allow good and successful Jarvan players to lead the line just that little bit harder.

But that's not even the best part of these buffs.

The best part is, they're very small, very reasonable buffs. They didn't push him into total bullshit zones of overpoweredness and so he's not being banned away from me and he's not getting first picked away from me. So unlike the last times when Jarvan was super strong, I'm actually getting to PLAY HIM. Thusly, my Ranking is just flying up and I'm having way the hell more fun as a result.

So thank you for the buffs balance team and let it never be said that I won't fess up when I'm wrong about a thing.