League of Legends - Jinx Champion Strategy and Item Build Guide

Jinx

Basic Information

Champion Stats

Lore

Skills

Icon	Description
	Get Excited!  INNATE: The character receives massively increased Movement Speed and stacking Attack Speed whenever she damages an enemy champion, tower, or inhibitor that is then killed or destroyed within 3 seconds.
	Switcheroo! (Effect Radius: 150, Cost: 20 Mana Per Attack, Static Cooldown: 0.9)The character modifies her basic attacks by swapping between Pow-Pow, her minigun and Fishbones, her rocket launcher. Attacks with Pow-Pow grant Attack Speed, while attacks with Fishbones deal area of effect damage, gain increased range, and drain Mana.TOGGLE – FISHBONES:  Basic attacks deal 110% Damage to the target and nearby enemies, gain 75/100/125/150/175 range, drain Mana, and scale 25% less with bonus Attack Speed.TOGGLE – POW-POW:  Basic attacks grant bonus Attack Speed for 2.5 seconds. This effect stacks up to 3 times for a total bonus of [0]% (bonus scales with spell rank and Jinx’s level). Stacks fall off one at a time and only benefit Jinx’s first attack after switching to Rocket Launcher.
	Zap! (Target Range: 1500, Collision Radius: 40.25, Speed: 3200, Cost: 50/60/70/80/90 Mana, Cooldown: 10/9/8/7/6)ACTIVE:  The character uses Zapper, her shock pistol, to fire a blast that deals damage to the first enemy hit, slowing and revealing it.Jinx fires a shock blast that deals 10/60/110/160/210 (+140% Attack Damage) Physical Damage to the first enemy hit, revealing it if it is not stealthed and slowing it by 30/40/50/60/70% for 2 seconds.
	Flame Chompers!  (Target Range: 900, Effect Radius: 50, Cost: 70 Mana, Cooldown: 24/20.5/17/13.5/10)The character throws out a line of snare grenades that explode after 5 seconds, lighting enemies on fire. Flame Chompers will bite enemy champions who walk over them, rooting them in place.Jinx tosses out 3 chompers that, once armed, explode on contact with enemy champions, rooting the target for 1.5 seconds and dealing 70/120/170/220/270 (+100% Ability Power) Magic Damage over 1.5 seconds to nearby enemies. Chompers last for 5 seconds.
	Super Mega Death Rocket! (Target Range: Global, Effect Radius: 225, Speed: 1500/2500, Cost: 100 Mana, Cooldown: 90/75/60)Jinx fires a super rocket across the map that gains damage as it travels. The rocket will explode upon colliding with an enemy champion, dealing damage to it and surrounding enemies based on their missing Health.Jinx fires a rocket that gains damage over the first second it travels. It explodes on the first enemy champion hit, dealing 25/35/45 (+15% bonus Attack Damage) to 250/350/450 (+150% bonus Attack Damage) Physical Damage plus 25/30/35% of the target’s missing Health. Nearby enemies take 80% Damage.

Strategy

• Her (Q) Switcheroo! gives her two strong options when fighting. Fishbones are effective at gunning down particular enemies at close range while Pow-Pow can nuke multiple enemies in long range.
• Do not waste your mana by always using your Pow-Pow. Only use it if there is a huge number of creep waves with low life or you are chasing an enemy champion who is fleeing.
• Use your (E) Flame Chompers! wisely. The skill has a long cooldown and missing it can remove your only way of applying a hard crowd control in a team fight. This skill can also be used to escape enemies by placing it below where your standing.
• Jinx excels at clearing enemy waves because of (Q) Switcheroo! However, freezing your lane early in the game is still the best option while she doesn’t have any items yet.
• (W) Zap! can also reveal stealth units. Use it instead of face checking.
• Getting an assist is already enough to trigger your passive, making Jinx a good kiter after a kill or assist.
• (R) Super Mega Death Rocket! can be casted at an extremely long range. Aim (R) Super Mega Death Rocket! at champions with low health and anticipate where they will hide (i.e. in brushes, near the walls, etc.).

Runes & Masteries

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Summoner Spells

Bot Lane
Heal	Flash

Item Builds

Bot Lane

Starting Items

Starting Items
Doran’s Blade	Health Potion	Warding Totem

Early Items

Early Items
Infinity Edge	Runaan’s Hurricane	Berserker’s Greaves

Runaan’s Hurricane and Infinity Edge are your core items for Jinx. She has a huge powerspike after building these two items, so this must be your priority. Runaan’s scale well with your (Q) Switcheroo!  in both weapon modifications. After that, finish your core with  Infinity Edge and you pretty much have the two items that makes Jinx a beast as an AD carry.

Full Build

Full Build
Infinity Edge	Runaan’s Hurricane	Rapid Firecannon
Guardian Angel	The Bloodthirster	Berserker’s Greaves

Rapid Firecannon – Rapid Firecannon increases Jinx’s attack speed and range. This item is good since it gives you more options when positioning and stacks well with your (Q) Switcheroo! especially if you are using Fishbones and the passive is fully charged as well.

Guardian Angel –  Jinx has no mobility, hence she is killed easily when caught by a crowd control or a burst ability. This item fits perfectly well especially  if your allies are having a hard time peeling for you.

The Bloodthirster – The Bloodthirster is your go-to lifesteal item. It gives you a lot of damage and lifesteal, which fits with Jinx. She can fully regenerate her missing health because both Fisbones and Pow-Pow helps Jinx adjust to any situation with her basic attacks, making you unstoppable when you have a good positioning to auto-attack your enemies freely.

Situational Items
Lord Dominik’s Regards	Mortal Reminder	Mercurial Scimitar
Phantom Dancer

Lord Dominik’s Regards/Mortal Reminder – Pretty standard items if your enemy team has builds a lot of tanky items. Focus on Lord Dominik’s Regards if the team has plenty of armor-heavy champions. Otherwise, build Mortal Reminder for heroes with high health and regeneration.

Mercurial Schimitar – This item really fits well with Jinx, considering she has little mobility. Her chompers is pretty much her only escape skill and that is if you land it correctly. Get this if you want to have more options for escaping crowd controls at the expense of more damage and lifesteal from The Bloodthirster.

Phantom Dancer – This is situational if you think you will be in many 1v1 situation, as Phantom Dancer gives you a lot of dueling ability. Substitute this with Rapid Firecannon if needed.

Playing Against

• Go aggressive on her if (E) Flame Chompers! is on cooldown. She has no other reliable escape, aside from flash.
• Do not stand close to the target of Jinx when she pulls out Pow-Pow because it is an AoE skill that can damage you as well.
• Do not stick around when you have low health, as she can activate (R) Super Mega Death Rocket! anywhere on the map. Also, do not stick close to your allies who have low health because it also deals AoE damage and can give Jinx multiple kills.
• Never teleport with low health where Jinx can see you because she has multiple weapons like Pow-Pow and (W) Zap! that has a very long range.
• Assists and kills make Jinx super mobile because of her passive Get Excited! Apply crowd control to her as much as possible to avoid her from kiting and disengaging in enemy fights.

Hard Counters

Sivir – Sivir can absorb almost all of Jinx’s skill with her Spell Shield. Almost all her skill have a delay and an animation, therefore Sivir has a lot of time to react. Sivir also a better damage input because of her passive in On the Hunt and Ricochet. 

Vayne – Vayne is a good champion with a lot of mobility to escape Jinx’s flurry of skillshots. She is also a better kiter than Jinx and can easily stop her rampage with a well-timed Condemn to a wall. Vayne can also avoid Jinx’s ultimate by using Tumble.

Ezreal – Ezreal is also another mobile champion that has a lot of mobility. He can avoid her skillshots with Arcane Shift. Aside from his mini-flash, he is also a good harasser and Jinx has no mobility to escape her Mystic Shot + Essence Flux combo.

Strategy video

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