Everything for Jayce Jungle on patch 16.11, pulled from real Emerald+ ranked games — the build path, rune pages, the counters worth banning, the strongest teammates, and Jayce's win conditions.
Jayce is an AD caster in the jungle, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 49.7% win rate, 1.8% pick rate, 21,452 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Jayce is front-loaded: at peak strength early and falling off the longer the game runs, so the win condition is to convert early pressure into objectives and leads before the 25-minute mark.
How Jayce wins: sieging objectives and turrets with sustained pressure, and winning the wave and turning push priority into map control. The kit grades 8/10 siege, 7/10 waveclear. Jayce's soft spots are engage (3/10) — avoid fights that hinge on them.
The most-played core build is Youmuu's Ghostblade, Voltaic Cyclosword, Edge of Night, which holds a 46.6% win rate across 790 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.
The matchup to respect is Dr. Mundo, where Jayce sits at just 40.6%, the lane swings the other way into Tryndamere (58.2%), and on the team side, Jayce gains the most from a Swain (+6.4% pair win rate).
Jayce's highest-volume core items and rune page this patch. Select the enemy composition above and the build re-optimizes for that exact matchup.
Jayce Jungle's worst matchups on patch 16.11, ranked by how often they win the lane. Ban these to smooth the game out.
The teammates that make Jayce Jungle stronger this patch, measured by how much the pair's win rate beats Jayce going solo.
Jayce is also played in these other roles this patch.
For full draft-time coaching with all 10 picks, use the Team Builder. To see Jayce's tier on this patch, see the Tier List.