Support Jarvan IV Build

Support Jarvan IV Build.

Support Jarvan IV build with runes and items. Support Jarvan IV guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Support Jarvan IV build in League of Legends Patch 25.05!

Author: Wrekah

TLDR

Starting items
Bandleglass Mirror should be final item in your build.
Tear of the Goddess should be final item in your build.
Quick Skill Order
Jarvan IV ability Demacian Standard should be leveled first.
E
Jarvan IV ability Dragon Strike should be leveled second.
Q
Jarvan IV ability Golden Aegis should be leveled third.
W
Final items
Ionian Boots of Lucidity should be final item in your build.
Moonstone Renewer should be final item in your build.
Redemption should be final item in your build.
Staff of Flowing Water should be final item in your build.
Echoes of Helia should be final item in your build.
Dawncore should be final item in your build.
Quick Runes
Major rune Summon Aery from Sorcery tree.
Minor rune Resolve.
Summoner spells
Pick Exhaust as your Summoner Spell.
Pick Flash as your Summoner Spell.

Support Jarvan IV Runes

Sorcery
Sorcery major tree Summon Aery rune.
Sorcery major tree Arcane Comet rune.
Sorcery major tree Phase Rush rune.
Sorcery major tree Axiom Arcanist rune.
Sorcery major tree Manaflow Band rune.
Sorcery major tree Nimbus Cloak rune.
Sorcery major tree Transcendence rune.
Sorcery major tree Celerity rune.
Sorcery major tree Absolute Focus rune.
Sorcery major tree Scorch rune.
Sorcery major tree Waterwalking rune.
Sorcery major tree Gathering Storm rune.
Resolve
Resolve minor tree Demolish rune.
Resolve minor tree Font of Life rune.
Resolve minor tree Shield Bash rune.
Resolve minor tree Conditioning rune.
Resolve minor tree Second Wind rune.
Resolve minor tree Bone Plating rune.
Resolve minor tree Overgrowth rune.
Resolve minor tree Revitalize rune.
Resolve minor tree Unflinching rune.
Passive
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Attack Speed rune (+10% Attack Speed).
Passive tree Ability Haste rune (+8 Ability Haste).
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Move Speed rune (+2 Movement Speed).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).
Passive tree Health rune (+65 Health).
Passive tree Tenacity And Slow Resist rune (+10 Tenacity and Slow Resist).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).

How it works

General

  1. You support your Team providing Healing, Shielding and various Buffs.
  2. You rush Moonstone Renewer.
  3. You can peel from your carries with Exhaust.

Champion

  1. Your Demacian Standard (E) triggers Summon Aery shields!
  2. You can help your team kill tanky champions by using Dragon Strike (Q) on them. It reduces target's armor!

How to play

General

  1. You need to adapt in the game to your team and to the enemy team.
  2. You can get Mark (Snowball) summoner instead of Exhaust if you want to play more aggressive and to go in.
  3. You will be squishy early on, and if you don't go some tanky items later. Be careful!
  4. Your team needs to engage? Get items like Shurelya's Battlesong or Trailblazer.
  5. Your team getting poked to death? Consider getting Redemption AND/OR Locket of the Iron Solari
  6. If you are just getting poked and cannot manage to stay alive - get Kaenic Rookern or Warmog's Armor (caution: needs enough HP!)
  7. You have tanks, bruisers and your team lack damage? As a last resort, you can buy few items to even help with that!
  8. Remember to counter an enemy team. For example, if they have lots of healing, get Executioner's Calling early.

Champion

  1. You can have 100% uptime on E (with some Ability Haste), meaning you will be shielding/healing/buffing your team all the time.
  2. Cast E near your team if you want shield/heal/buff them.
  3. E gives vision, so you can scout bushes.
  4. Play safe, like support for the most part and stay back. Look for opportunities to catch/engage enemies, but be careful, because you are squishy with this build.
  5. Cool combo is R enemies + Flash or R enemies + E + Q away.
  6. You can play Aery ping pong to maximize uptime. Just come close to whoever got it, to get it back. This way you will maximize the number of shields.
  7. If you want to shield a specific person, just cast E closest to them.

Tips and Tricks

Champion

  1. You can use Demacian Standard (E) for brush control.
  2. Remember that Dragon Strike (Q) reduces target's armor!
  3. Switch targets often in fights to fully use your Martial Cadence (Passive) for more damage!
  4. Combo #1: Q + E + Flash. Just Q + E and during the last frames of animation, you can Flash into enemy knocking them up.
  5. Combo #2: If you have enough Ability Haste, you can put E, wait and Q to it and cast second E hitting your target. This is especially cool with AP builds. So you can cast E while sliding to existing E.

Riot

  1. You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
  2. Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
  3. Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.

Skill Order

  • Jarvan IV [object Object] ability.
    Q
    Dragon Strike
  • Jarvan IV [object Object] ability.
    W
    Golden Aegis
  • Jarvan IV [object Object] ability.
    E
    Demacian Standard
  • Jarvan IV [object Object] ability.
    R
    Cataclysm

Items

Starting items
Bandleglass Mirror item.
Tear of the Goddess item.
Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
For mana problems
Tear of the Goddess item.
Fimbulwinter item.
Rush this
Moonstone Renewer item.
Good support items
Dawncore item.
Echoes of Helia item.
Staff of Flowing Water item.
Counter poke
Banshee's Veil item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Warmog's Armor item.
Locket of the Iron Solari item.
Redemption item.
For engage
Shurelya's Battlesong item.
Trailblazer item.
Situational items
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Ardent Censer item.
Knight's Vow item.
Mikael's Blessing item.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter item.
Counter healing
Oblivion Orb item.
Morellonomicon item.
For survivability
Spirit Visage item.
Jak'Sho, The Protean item.
Frozen Heart item.
Banshee's Veil item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Abyssal Mask item.
Zhonya's Hourglass item.
For the last fight
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Elixir of Wrath item.
Elixir of Iron item.
Seeker's Armguard item.
Example final build
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Moonstone Renewer item.
Redemption item.
Staff of Flowing Water item.
Echoes of Helia item.
Dawncore item.