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@Meddler - your thoughts on Jinx's current state

Sylverblitz·5/2/2016, 12:30:37 AM·1 votes·417 views

Can you please tell me your thoughts on the current state of Jinx? As it stands I feel like she is not worth considering in almost any game because of her extreme lack of mobility and need to ramp up in terms of items and basic attacks. There are so many champions, old and new, that have dashes and blinks that it makes no sense to play one without any mobility or escapes. She only has a telegraphed skillshot slow that makes her stop moving and a delayed snare that just tends to draw out her death a few seconds.

"Stay out of range and get better at positioning" That's great if you can do it. Positioning is important too of course but when everyone popular right now has a dash, jump, blink or some combination of those you can't make a single mistake. Ever. I'm not the greatest player, far from it, but when every single mistake is punished you're basically forced into "pick meta X, Y, or Z" or you put yourself and your team at a huge disadvantage. There is nobody forcing me or anyone to play specific champions but let's face it only a handful are viable. The rest are either due for reworks or stuck in the "maybe they will be buffed sometime in the future" pit and Jinx is in that pit right now.

I'm not stupid, I know that it's an almost impossible task to perfectly balance so many champions so they are all viable but when specific champions are known to have no mobility in a game where every new champ has a mix of dashes, blinks, 3-hit mechanics and / or %HP damage it really doesn't work out for a champion I really enjoy playing.

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

4 Comments

MunchCrunchLunch5/2/2016, 12:51:14 AM1 votes

thats why u leave jinx or any immobile adc for last picks in solo q. cough i mean dynamic q. if someone picks lb zed fizz or any of those ur almost guarnteed to lose

IcyPepper5/2/2016, 12:52:53 AM1 votes

She was dominant for a time about a year(?) ago. Champions fall in and out of favor. Jinx had her spotlight, and she'll have it again. There's no point in buffing her unless she's extraordinarily weak.

Once towers are no longer tissue paper, she may be more valuable since she's quite powerful at tower destruction. So wait until then.

The Yetii Rider5/2/2016, 1:09:38 AM1 votes

Jinx's niche is AOE Crits (available to all carries now) and sieging (not as important in such a dive happy meta).

Jinx is still powerful, mostly because the speed of her minigun animation makes her excellent at kiting even in high stress situations. But Jinx will never be strong in a marksman meta (which we have had since the preseason) because as you've stated she is especially vulnerable to assassins.

Jinx doesn't need a buff. She's perfectly viable. She's just more vulnerable than her slippery counterparts to assassination. Once Zed and Yas get buffed EVERY marksman will be crap tier and then you'll be just fine.

Sylverblitz5/2/2016, 1:46:39 AM1 votes

I'm not asking for buffs I'm just asking what his thoughts are on her right now. The way the game is at present means she is not really viable. Can she still do AoE (small area) crits with basics? Yes but that was toned down massively with the attack speed nerf to it. Can she shred towers? Yes but there are others that can do just as good a job and with more safety and escape potential. I feel like Jinx is in the same position as Vayne and Kog for different reasons. Unless the team is built specifically to protect her and peel for her then she will be destroyed by an increasingly mobile game. You can't kite someone that is slowing and stunning you then punching you in the face too.

item 3094 has made almost any auto attacking ADC a tower shredder with the bonus of increased range now and then. item 3085 gives all ADC more than it ever did meaning it's more likely to be built than before.

I'm really surprised that Miss Fortune, of all champions, is being looked at because her brief moment in the pro scene fell quickly whereas Jinx just seems to have been forgotten about completely after the last round of nerfs made her a very unpopular pick.