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Jarvan IV Jungle Wild Rift Guide
Jarvan IV jungle counters include Ekko, Amumu, and Graves. See the best build, runes, matchups, and game plan for Wild Rift Patch 7.3.
How to play
- Look for early ganks Place your 3rd ability behind the enemy, then aim your 1st ability through it. You pull yourself to the flag and knock up enemies along the way.
- Trap enemies after they use their escape Your ultimate is harder to leave when their dash or Flash is unavailable.
- Keep a way to protect your carry Use your 3rd ability followed by your 1st to knock up enemies diving onto your carry. Press your ultimate again to remove its walls if an ally is trapped.
Strengths
- His flag-and-lance flip is a guaranteed knockup, turning a risky gank into a kill the moment he reaches a laner.
- He starts objectives well, since the same engage that flips a laner can throw an enemy onto his team at dragon.
- He scales as a tanky bruiser who can stack resists and still bring an ultimate that walls a carry in.
Weaknesses
- His engage is one dash on a real cooldown, so a missed flag or a baited flip leaves him with no escape.
- He locks down one target, and once he has flipped and ulted that person he adds little to a long fight.
- Stasis, cleanse, and well-timed movement can avoid his control and leave him committed without a target.
Build Snapshot
Rune Setup
Summoner Spells
Jarvan IV Jungle Counters
Who counters Jarvan IV Jungle in Wild Rift (WR)? These champions beat Jarvan IV in the jungle matchup, with how each one wins. Learn to play around them or ban them in ranked.
- Ekko: Ekko slips your engage with Phase Dive (3rd), his shield eats the knockup, and Chronobreak (Ult) rewinds him straight out of your Cataclysm (Ult), so your trap means nothing against a target who simply leaves.
- Amumu: Amumu wins the long fight: his percent-health aura chips your tank frame while your lockdown only buys one window, and his ultimate locks you down harder than your cage locks him.
- Graves: Graves turns your Cataclysm (Ult) into his arena, since trapping a point-blank shotgun bruiser just feeds him the duel. His burst out-damages your bruiser frame and True Grit (3rd) shrugs off your lockdown.
Champions Jarvan IV Is Strong Against
Jarvan IV's best matchups in Wild Rift. Jarvan IV holds an edge against these picks in the jungle role, so look to press the advantage and contest objectives.
- Hecarim: Hecarim depends on momentum, and your knockup plus the Cataclysm (Ult) cage stop the charge his whole game runs on. Trapped inside your arena, his speed means nothing.
- Xin Zhao: Xin Zhao commits everything to his dive, and your knockup interrupts his three-hit combo while the cage traps him away from his team once he is all-in.
- Wukong: Wukong wants to knock up your team and clean up, but your knockup lands first and the cage strands the real one after his clone trick, where his burst does nothing.
Early Game
Demacian Standard (3rd) into Dragon Strike (1st) clears camps quickly, but the same combo also gives Jarvan one of the strongest early ganks in the roster. After your first three camps, check the nearest lanes and the enemy's likely second-buff route. Break the clear when a knockup will force Flash, secure a kill, or catch the opposing jungler with lane support; otherwise finish the camps and arrive at scuttle with Cataclysm (Ult) close. Place the flag beyond the target so Dragon Strike (1st) carries you through them, then slow with Golden Aegis (2nd) while your laner follows. Weave an attack on each fresh target for Martial Cadence's (Passive) current-health damage, since the flag-and-drag itself does not trigger the passive. Jarvan's early advantage comes from making the first reliable move, not from forcing every possible fight.
Mid Game
Cataclysm (Ult) gives Jarvan a decisive way to isolate the enemy jungler or a vulnerable carry near the first objectives. Place Demacian Standard (3rd) across the dragon or Herald wall, then connect Dragon Strike (1st) to the flag to dash through and knock enemies up along Jarvan's path. The combo does not throw them toward your team, so your allies must already be in position to follow before you commit Cataclysm (Ult). Between objectives, move between lanes and river with purpose instead of power-farming a full loop: any gank you land with a first item is a kill. Counter-jungle the slow scalers who cannot answer your engage, and set vision around the next objective before it spawns.
Late Game
Late game you stop being the carry and become the engage tool. Group with your team and hold flag-lance for the moment that matters. Across a Baron wall, the combo dashes Jarvan through and knocks enemies up in place; it does not fling them to his allies. Follow with Cataclysm (Ult) only when the arena traps a valuable target without walling out your own team's damage.
Teamfights
Pick your target before the fight starts, because your whole fight is one decision made well. The dream play is a flag-lance onto their most dangerous carry, then Cataclysm (Ult) to wall them in while your team collapses on someone who cannot leave. Use the dash to cross terrain and reach the backline that thinks it is safe, and remember the ultimate walls can box out your own allies, so angle the arena to trap the enemy, not your follow-up. If you cannot reach the carry, the flip still works as peel: knock their diving assassin off your carry and back into your team. Once your engage is spent you are a frontline body, so soak what you can, but the kill you set up with the flip is what decides the fight.