[Top 5] LoL Best Jayce Builds For Destroying the Enemy Team (Used By Pros)

Updated: 26 Nov 2022 8:49 pm

Powering Up!

BY: Hagar Ossman

[Top 5] LoL Best Jayce Builds for Destroying the Enemy Team

“Picking a fight with me is the dumbest thing you’ve done today – and that’s saying a lot.”

Ever heard of the Defender of Tomorrow? Well, you’re about to.

Imagine having Nikola Tesla and Superman both in one person: Jayce, the brilliant inventor who pledged his life to defend Piltover and its unyielding pursuit of progress.

With a hextech hammer that changes shape in his hand, Jayce uses his strength, courage, and amazing intelligence to protect his home.

In this article, you will be guided through the best Jayce builds in League of Legends that will knock down your enemies.

Jayce, a native son of Piltover, was raised to believe that innovation and discovery were the main principles that made the city great. With a talent for understanding machinery, Jayce earned the honour of being the youngest apprenta to ever be offered patronage by one of the most respected ruling clans, Clan Giopara. After taking the offer, Jayce spent most of his early years constructing potential hextech devices and designing transformable multi-tools for Piltover’s working class, such as a wrench that transformed into a prybar, a pickaxe that could turn into a shovel, and a hammer that could switch into a demolition beam, if only it had a sufficiently powerful battery.

Nearly everyone who worked alongside Jayce found him arrogant, dismissive, and unwilling to slow his pace to help his colleagues catch up. Only one person ever managed to match Jayce’s intelligence while also maintaining a healthy indifference toward his superior attitude. His name was Viktor.

The two met at a mandatory Progress Day party, and instantly bonded over how little either of them wanted to be there. Not so long after, they started working together. Together, Jayce and Viktor invented a mechanised construction suit for Piltover’s dockworkers. They built something hearty enough to enhance the wearer’s strength but light enough that its wearer wouldn’t immediately drown upon falling overboard.

However, the two reached a dead end when Viktor designed the next version of the suit to include a chemtech implant that would increase the wearer’s strength output by tenfold, while also preventing them from getting tired, panicking, or disobeying instructions from their superiors.

While Viktor considered what he invented a brilliant means of reducing the frequency of construction accidents, Jayce found its indifference toward free will immoral.

After Jayce told the academy about Viktor's invention, he lost his honours and was shunned by the scientific community in Piltover.

Clan Giopara’s explorers discovered a raw blue crystal lies deep within the Shuriman desert. Jayce volunteered to experiment on it after the clan’s scholars reached the unanimous conclusion that the crystal is worthless. A power-drained chunk of rock the disappointed clan leaders finally handed the crystal over to Jayce, assuming that even he, with his remarkable intelligence, wouldn’t be able to learn anything from it. Something in that crystal was calling to Jayce - actually, singing to him. He couldn’t explain how or why, but he knew that the Shuriman gem held mysteries yet to be discovered.

After spending many months running every possible test on the crystal without any success, he decided to try and experiment on a smaller shard instead of the crystal as a whole. He attempted to cut a piece of the crystal and suspend it in liquid alloy; eventually, heat radiated from the crystal, which glowed brightly enough to nearly blind Jayce.

The next day, Jayce had a surprising visit from his old friend Viktor, who needed a power source like Jayce’s crystal to help with his immoral inventions.

Jayce disagreed with him and refused to work with him, but Viktor didn’t care for Jayce’s opinion anyway. He grabbed the crystal and knocked Jayce unconscious with it.

After Jayce woke up, he noticed not only that the crystal was gone but also that Viktor didn’t seem to notice or care about the smaller shard of the crystal.

Without wasting a second, Jayce took the suspended shard and installed it into a massive transforming hammer, which he abandoned years ago due to a lack of strong enough battery power.

Wanting to be with the crystal again, the shard led Jayce to a warehouse where Viktor was hiding.

Within the cavernous building, Jayce found something horrifying. Dozens of dead bodies, with their skulls cut open and hollowed out and their brains put into an army of inanimate metal soldiers that were hooked up to the now-pulsing crystal, lay on the ground.

Jayce tried to apologise for acting like a jerk and convince Viktor to stop whatever he was doing, but Viktor’s response was an order to his automatons to kill Jayce.

Jayce gripped the hammer tightand swung it as hard as he could. Jayce felt the shard’s energy surge through his muscles, accelerating the hammer’s movement.

The hammer slammed into the automaton, all but exploding it into a hail of metal.

Not caring for his own safety, Jayce used every last bit of strength he had to break free from Viktor’s automatons. He sprinted to the glowing crystal and struck it with all of the hextech-enhanced force his hammer could muster, crushing the mystical object.

Viktor cried out in horror as the crystal shattered into fragments, the shockwave blasting them all backward as the army of automatons collapsed lifelessly to the floor.

No one ever found Viktor’s body. After his return to Piltover, Jayce informed his clan masters of Viktor’s nefarious plans. Soon, Jayce found himself a topic of discussion in both Zaun and Piltover alike.

Jayce knew that Viktor was still out there, plotting his revenge, and that one day he would be back with an awful lot of trouble. Jayce will be waiting.

Jayce Abilities:

Jayce Passive:

Whenever Jayce switches between either Hammer Stance or Cannon Stance, he gains ghosting and 40 bonus movement speed for 0.75 seconds.

To The Skies! (Jayce Q)

Cooldown: 16/14/12/10/8/6

Cost: 40 mana

Target range: 600

Effect radius: 300

Jayce leaps to the target enemy’s location. Upon arrival, he deals physical damage to all enemies within an area and slows them for 2 seconds.

Lightning Field (Jayce W)

Cooldown: 10

Cost: 40 mana

Effect radius: 350

Jayce’s basic attacks restore mana on-hit.

Jayce surrounds himself with an electric field for 4 seconds that deals magic damage every second to nearby enemies.

Thundering Blow (Jayce E)

Cooldown: 20/18/16/14/12/10

Cost: 55 mana

Cast time: 0.25

Target range: 240

Jayce swings his hammer at the target enemy, dealing magic damage, capped against monsters, while also displacing them to a location 500 units in front of him.

Transform Mercury Cannon (Jayce R)

Jayce transforms into Cannon Stance , receiving access to its abilities, becoming ranged with 500 attack range, and empowering his next basic attack to reduce the target's armor and magic resistance by 10 / 15 / 20 / 25% (based on level) for 5 seconds.

Jayce begins the game with Transform but cannot increase its rank. Instead, his basic abilities each have 6 ranks.

Jayce Counters:

5- Tank Jayce build:

(By: Full Metal Jayce)

Checkout Tank Jayce’s gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwhM1GwQEJE&t=83s

Jayce is a really strong tank with Goredrinker, as he can sustain a lot of damage.
His passive approach would help him engage and disengage team fights as a frontliner.

Build’s Strength:

Once you have a few levels under your belt, you can start to play aggressive and look for aggressively plays.
You benefit from extended trades, so try to go for them frequently.
When you hit level 6, you need to play a bit safer as you do not have an ultimate R, unlike every other Top laner.

Play Tank Jayce if you are matched up against:

Rumble
Yone
Gnar
Warwick
Singed

Skills in order:

Level 1: To The Sky!
Level 2: Thundering Blow
Level 3: Lightning Field
Level 4: To The Sky!
Level 5: To The Sky!
Level 6: Lightning Field
Level 7: To The Sky!
Level 8: Lightning Field
Level 9: To The Sky!
Level 10: Lightning Field
Level 11: To The Sky!
Level 12: Lightning Field
Level 13: Lightning Field
Level 14: Thundering Blow
Level 15: Thundering Blow
Level 16: Thundering Blow
Level 17: Thundering Blow
Level 18: Thundering Blow

Runes:

1-Grasp of the Undying
2-Demolish
3-Bone Plating
4-Unflinching
5-Biscuit Delivery
6-Cosmic Insight
7-Attack Speed
8-Adaptive Force
9-Armor

Summoner’s Spells:

1-Flash

2-Teleport

Starting Items:

1-Doran’s Shield

+80 health

+6 health per 5 seconds

Unique – Focus: Basic attacks deal 5 bonus physical damage on-hit against minions.

Unique – Endure: After taking damage from a champion or large monster, gain health regeneration equal to 0 − 40 (based on current missing health) health over 8 seconds. Reduced to (66% effectiveness) on ranged champions or when triggered by area of effect, damage over time, or proc.

2-Health Potion

Regenerates 4 health every 0.5 seconds over 15 seconds, restoring a total of 120 health.

Core and Mythic items:

1-Plated Steelcaps

+20 armor

+45 movement speed

Unique: Reduces incoming damage from all basic attacks by 12% (Excluding turret attacks).

2-Goredrinker

+55 attack damage

+20 ability haste

+300 health

+8% omnivamp

Unique – Thirsting Slash: Deal 175% base AD physical damage to enemies in a 450 radius centered around you. Heal for 20% AD (+ 8% of your missing health) for each enemy champion hit (15 (reduced by ability haste) second cooldown).

3-Blade of The Ruined King

+20 attack damage

+35% attack speed

Unique – Thirst: +10% Physical Vamp.

Unique – Ruined Strikes: Basic attacks (9% melee/ 6% ranged) of the target’s current health bonus physical damage. Deals a minimum of 15 damage, and against monsters deals a maximum of 60 damage.

Unique – Drain: Hitting a champion with 3 basic attacks or abilities deals 30 – 100 (based on level) magic damage and steals 25% of their movement speed for 2 seconds (60 second cooldown).

4-Black Cleaver

+45 attack damage

+30 ability haste

+350 health

Unique – Carve: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion applies a stack of Carve for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times. Each stack inflicts 5% armor reduction, up to 30% at 6 stacks.

Unique – Rage: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion grants 3 bonus movement speed per stack of Carve on them for 2 seconds, up to 18.

5-Hullbreaker

+50 attack damage

+400 health

+150% base health regeneration

Unique – Boarding Party: While no allied champions are within 1400 units, gain ( 10 – 75 melee / 5 − 37.5 ranged) (based on level) bonus armor and bonus magic resistance and 20% bonus basic damage against structures. Allied siege minions and super minions within 1050 units gain ( 30 – 225 melee / 15 − 112.5 ranged) (based on level) bonus armor and bonus magic resistance, 10% bonus size and deal 200% bonus damage against structures. Bonus resistances are lost instantly when an allied champion is nearby.

6-Thornmail

+350 health

+60 armor

Unique – Thorns: When struck by a basic attack on-hit deal 10 (+20% bonus armor) magic damage to the attacker and, if they are a champion, inflict them with 25% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds Immobilizing enemy champions also inflicts them with 40% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.