Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
The stats shown here underscore several vital Morgana against Jayce matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jayce’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Jayce. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Morgana typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Jayce. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Morgana usually wins when taking on Jayce, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Morgana makes a good counter to Jayce.
While Morgana does have a higher win rate compared to Jayce, when on opposite teams, Morgana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Morgana into Jayce.
Furthermore, Morgana has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jayce. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Jayce matchups, Morgana is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Morgana is an above average counter for Jayce. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Morgana against Jayce.
To truly master Morgana to counter Jayce during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana most often accumulates a lot less CS as Jayce. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Morgana versus Jayce build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Horizon Focus, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Jayce than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Morgana boasted an average win rate of 52.9% when countering Jayce with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Jayce as Morgana, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Triple Tonic, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Morgana vs Jayce counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.9% win rate overall.
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