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 14.24!
Updated: 2024-09-18 ()
TLDR
Starting items
Quick Skill Order
E
Q
W
Final items
Quick Runes
Summoner spells
Support Jarvan IV Runes
Sorcery
Resolve
Passive
How it works
General
- You support your Team providing Healing, Shielding and various Buffs.
- You rush Moonstone Renewer.
- You can peel from your carries with Exhaust.
Jarvan IV Support specific
- Your Demacian Standard (E) triggers Summon Aery shields!
- You can help your team kill tanky champions by using Dragon Strike (Q) on them. It reduces target's armor!
How to play
General
- You need to adapt in the game to your team and to the enemy team.
- You can get Mark (Snowball) summoner instead of Exhaust if you want to play more aggressive and to go in.
- You will be squishy early on, and if you don't go some tanky items later. Be careful!
- Your team needs to engage? Get items like Shurelya's Battlesong or Trailblazer.
- Your team getting poked to death? Consider getting Redemption AND/OR Locket of the Iron Solari
- If you are just getting poked and cannot manage to stay alive - get Kaenic Rookern or Warmog's Armor (caution: needs enough HP!)
- You have tanks, bruisers and your team lack damage? As a last resort, you can buy few items to even help with that!
- Remember to counter an enemy team. For example, if they have lots of healing, get Executioner's Calling early.
Jarvan IV Support specific
- You can have 100% uptime on E (with some Ability Haste), meaning you will be shielding/healing/buffing your team all the time.
- Cast E near your team if you want shield/heal/buff them.
- E gives vision, so you can scout bushes.
- 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.
- Cool combo is R enemies + Flash or R enemies + E + Q away.
- 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.
- If you want to shield a specific person, just cast E closest to them.
Tips and Tricks
General
- You can use Demacian Standard (E) for brush control.
- Remember that Dragon Strike (Q) reduces target's armor!
- Switch targets often in fights to fully use your Passive for more damage!
- Combo #1: Q + E + Flash. Just Q + E and during the last frames of animation, you can Flash into enemy knocking them up.
- 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
- You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
- Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
- Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
Skill Order
- Dragon StrikeQ
- Golden AegisW
- Demacian StandardE
- CataclysmR
Items
Starting items
Boots
For mana problems
Rush this
Good support items
Counter poke
For engage
Situational items
Counter healing
For survivability
For the last fight
Example final build