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Jarvan IV Build

Jungle Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 68,158 gamesUpdated

50.0%win rate3.0%pick1.0%ban

Who counters Jarvan IV

Every Jungle matchup for Jarvan IV, ranked →

How to build Jarvan IV

Plated Steelcaps→Profane Hydra→Voltaic Cyclosword→Bastionbreaker

Plated Steelcaps → Profane Hydra → Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker

50.2% win rate 8% of games 4,017 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de GraceInspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear38% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite100%
Skills
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Dragon Strike
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Golden Aegis
314151718
Demacian Standard
19101213
Cataclysm
61116
StartScorchclaw PupHealth PotionScorchclaw Pup, Health Potion
Full Jarvan IV build →
50.0%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.9% over 141,410 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.0% over 68,158 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.8%at Emerald+
3.0%pick rate
1.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
50.7%under 22 min
49.0%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Jarvan IV champion portraitJ Jarvan IVvsLee Sin champion portraitJ Lee Sin
12 / 8 / 24

Build

Scorchclaw PupPlated Steelcaps|Sundered Sky→Black Cleaver→Guardian Angel→Thornmail

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Jarvan IV champion portraitJ Jarvan IVvsLee Sin champion portraitJ Lee Sin
3 / 2 / 5

Build

Scorchclaw PupMercury's Treads|Sundered Sky→Black Cleaver

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

EQQWQRQEQERE
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Jarvan IV champion portraitJ Jarvan IVvsSylas champion portraitJ Sylas
3 / 6 / 13

Build

Scorchclaw PupPlated Steelcaps|Black Cleaver→Death's Dance→Frozen Heart

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEREEWW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 50.8% win rate · 38% of games · 25,044 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
InspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 48.8% win rate · 24% of games · 15,739 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
DominationRelentless HunterSudden Impact
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 100% of games, 49.9% win rate. No real variation.

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps50%Mercury's Treads34%Slightly Magical Footwear7%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 50.2% win rate
Jungle pet
Scorchclaw Pup100%
10 of 10 recent games started Scorchclaw Pup

Jarvan IV build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Voltaic Cyclosword1st
  2. Profane Hydra2nd
  3. Bastionbreaker3rd
6% of games that reach a third item take this path54.6% win rate2,799 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Jarvan IV →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 68,825 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
49% · 50.2% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
33% · 50.6% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
7% · 44.7% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
4% · 51.9% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 44.8% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 53.0% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Profane Hydra›Voltaic Cyclosword+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 36.3% win rate · 924 games
  2. Voltaic Cyclosword›Profane Hydra+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 34.9% win rate · 842 games
  3. Profane Hydra+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 37.7% win rate · 801 games
  4. Black Cleaver›Sundered Sky+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 38.4% win rate · 797 games
  5. Voltaic Cyclosword›Profane Hydra›Bastionbreaker+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 52.1% win rate · 772 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Jarvan IV against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Jarvan IV's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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