Jormungandr

How to play Jormungandr

Jormungandr is a melee guardian from the Norse pantheon who deals magical damage. Top players play Jormungandr in the Solo lane.

In your kit, Submerge (stealth into knock-up) is your main crowd control. Venomous Haze (area damage slow) and Consuming Bellow (consume haze to tremble) add damage and pressure. Your ultimate is The World Serpent (multi-leap knock-up), on a long cooldown (about 90s at rank 1), so save it for fights that matter. Your passive is Immovable: immune to displacement.

Community guides level Venomous Haze, Consuming Bellow and Submerge first. Max Consuming Bellow first, then Venomous Haze, then Submerge.

Your job is to start fights and protect your team, not to get kills. Move in when your team is close enough to follow up, then stay near your hunter and protect them from anyone who jumps on them. Your build makes you very hard to kill, so you can stand in front and absorb damage. In the solo lane you will often fight one on one, so attack when their key ability is on cooldown.

Start with Bluestone Brooch, then buy Devourer's Gauntlet. Buy it early so it finishes stacking. Your core is Eye of Erebus and Shifter's Shield, and you finish with Sanguine Lash, Freya's Tears and Heartseeker. A good relic is Blink Rune. If the enemy team heals a lot or you keep dying, open the full tool and enter the enemy gods for the exact swaps.

If you own Aspect of the Unyielding, it reworks Venomous Haze (area buff) and Consuming Bellow (consume haze to tremble). It changes what to build, so turn on Aspect in the tool when you play it.

Top players win most often against Artio, Hun Batz and Achilles, and struggle against Cerberus, Sylvanus or Xbalanque. Against those, play safer and consider a defensive item earlier.