jayce nerfs @riot
Does anyone else thing that jayce needs to be nerfed? even the riot casters on the analysts desk at worlds admitted to him being one of the most broken champions in league and riot still refuses to nerf him or make adjustments.
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In Comparison: Two other champions fall into the Jayce category of "Transforming with R".
Ms. Legs is laughably weak in her 2 legged form. Her Q is largely a joke at all ranks. Her W can really hurt but is also easily avoided a lot of the time. Her E is a pretty good snare that sets up her spider form. In Spider Form, she has an execute, a AS Steroid, and an often clunky gap-closer/escape. Verdict: Stronger in Melee Form.
Nidalee's is almost the same as Elise. In her Human (Ranged) form, only her Q can deal any real damage, her traps are pretty pathetic but do set up her pounce, and she has perhaps the weakest heal on the Rift. In her Beast Form, she rips and shreds with the best of them but largely lacks any way to escape. Verdict: Stronger in Melee Form
In either form, he can brutalize you. He can do it with AD or AP. In Ranged Form, we'll start with his gate that buffs Movement Speed (Engage/Disengage) and turbo charges his Q. His E is fairly nasty as well. In Melee Form, he has a hard engage that really hurts, a self-targeted AOE damage shield, and "the whack", which is either a free disengage or a setup tool. He can swap forms mid-fight at will like the other two simply can't (or otherwise shouldn't). Verdict: Jayce does what he wants.
A friend of mine who is a high Master/Challenger player got filled into top lane yesterday and picked Jayce for the first time since several months. The whole evening he was laughing his ass off in Teamspeak about how he literally won every single fight almost every other champion would straight up lose without some really sick outplays. Full-Hp "normally fed" Rengar vs. 300-400Hp Jayce sitting in a bush, Rengar has ult? Who wins? You guessed it right. The only "outplay" he made there was waiting in the bush. Sure, he was only playing against Diamonds and like one low Master, so this made it rather easy for him, but he's a full-on jungle main and every other role is complete crap for him (he might still trash most Diamonds, but against people who main some FOTM champ it can be tough for him).
Jayce just is in a very bad state. His damage is through the roof and his melee-E makes it super hard to deal with him for most other melee champs, while most ranged champ just get blown up by him.
Make Jayce need to start tear again. Idk how but find a way to achieve that and he'll be ok again.
Jayce needs to have an exploitable window of vulnerability in his kit to allow people to trade with him. As it stands, there's no way to engage on Jayce 1v1 and come out ahead. Likewise, there's really nothing to do about his dive/disengage combo in lane. He just bursts you down for an incredible of damage and immediately prevents any sort of retaliation. Now that Poppy's been nerfed, and that Lethality is about to get buffed, Jayce will be back as the dominant top-laner and he'll wreck every possible matchup.
I think they are simply unsure about how to nerf him. They used to balance Jayce around his mana pool, but nowadays you don't play poke Jayce, you play "annihilate-every-carry-in-this-game-Jayce".
Riot nerfs Jayce season 4 after SSW wins worlds.
Continues on to buffing him until suddenly, for a tiny buff to expierience players but a much larger buff for new players he becomes broken and now they gonna nerf him again. I can't follow this emotional rollercoaster no more as post-Jayce Main. I'm jumping on the Kayle train.(a slow and easy rider it is indeed.)
ah well, jayce sort of needs at least a small scale rework - right now he´s way too reliant on winning lane, as his poke and teamfighting really don´t scale well into lategame.