Hey guys, been a while since I stepped in here. Finally managed to get a decent framerate going, so I've been playing some games lately and catching up. Just dropping in to say I'm open to play some games with anyone who doesn't mind some ring rust. Here's to hoping I can play with everybody and catch up soon! :D
And speaking of catching up, I just wanted to point something out for the less number-crunchy guys among us. With Jayce's release, I know there's probably lots of people who are interested in him as a stance-switching character and think it's cool as hell. The good news is, you're right, Jayce is really damn awesome. The bad news, however, is that there's absolutely no reason to stance switch except for narrow escapes in a fight.
Why? Because his Mercury Cannon form has Hyper Charge. That skill, alone, is the single most powerful steroid in the entire game...even when matched up to entire skill packages. Even Vayne's triple-skill package is worse than Hyper Charge. If you're curious as to why, the reason's simple: because he automatically has 2.5 attack speed for his first few attacks, Jayce can simply load up on pure AD and crit, utterly ignoring AS unless it comes as gravy to him, and RAVAGE his enemies with beefy automatic crits. Since you're firing off three attacks in a little more than a second, you will outburst any enemy who is even remotely in your league. This is further compounded by the fact that for some arcane reason, Hyper Charge also provides a damage boost of 30%, which means those three IE-boosted crits are going to deal utterly humongous amounts of damage (math tells me it's something like 325% damage...per hit. In other words, you're hitting for nearly the damage of ten normal autoattacks in a little more than a second, assuming three crits). To anyone who wants to win games, I heartily, heartily recommend picking up Jayce and going for a pure AD+Crit build. I haven't mapped out all the details yet, but at least on paper it seems like it should be able to dominate any matchup in spite of his shortish range, particularly because it even benefits his potent Shockblast.
On that note, a question for Red, FD and Chris, who have stuck with LoL while I was absent: the seemingly best build for Jayce ATM seems to be Zerk Greaves, IE, Critcloak, Riceblade, Atma's, Thirster (preferred order for the last three items, but absolutely DO get the critcloak early), Ghostblade, then either LW, PD, or one more Thirster. Does this look right to you guys? This setup provides Jayce with 58/88% critchance (before green pot), up to 75% bonus AS when Ghostblade is on (after emptying hypercharge of course), over 300 base AD at worst, and relatively decent defensive stats, plus a decent amount of CDR to get more Hypercharges going. It looks pretty solid to me, but I figure it's worth checking. Am I right about disregarding AS being the best choice with him?
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