"Rockets are intended to be a safer option that offer far less DPS..."
Umm...did riot forget that the rockets are AOE and deal 110% AD and can crit?!? The pros of the rockets outweigh the cons by far.
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which is why they are lowering jinx's attack speed by 15% when she uses fishbones
The rockets are AOE, but the minigun has much greater attack speed.
Umm...did riot forget that the rockets are AOE and deal 110% AD and can crit?!? The pros of the rockets outweigh the cons by far.
Ummm....did you forget that minigun has like 50% more attackspeed now and can also crit?
Rockets Pros: high range can crit 110% ad Cons: Use mana much lower attackspeed
minigun Pros: higher attackspeed no mana usage can crit Cons: Low range
Plus lets do the math. Lets say you have 250 AD as jinx and 1.5 AS.
If you can crit and have IE then within 5 seconds, the following attacks will happen:
With rockets: The new build is -15% attack speed so 1.27 attacks per second with rockets. So she can pull of 6.35 attacks-lets just round that to 6. She can pull off 6 attacks in 5 seconds if she uses rockets with 1.5 AS. Lets say 4 of those rockets crit then thats 250x4x2.5x1.1=2750 damage+250x2=500. 2750+500=3250 damage in 5 seconds with rockets.
With minigun: She gets 70% extra attack speed at max rank. So thats instead.....the max cap lol. 2.5 attacks per second but just in case my calculations went wrong, lets say 2.25 attacks per second. So thats a total of 11.25 attacks per second. A lot more than 6 attacks lol. Lets say 8 of them crit. so 250x2.5x8=5000 damage with just the 8 attacks alone. Then we add on the 3 attacks that didn't crit. So 250x2.5x3=1875 damage. 5000+1875=6875 total damage with the minigun.
So to summarize, within 5 seconds, rockets would've pulled off a total of 3250 damage provided they all hit. Within 5 seconds, the minigun would've pulled off a total of 6875 damage provided they all hit.
So I think that riot did their job when they said "rockets are intended to be a safer option that offer far less dps" last I checked, 3250 is definitely lower than 6875.
Feel free to correct any errors in this but I think I've made my point.
Downvote because what you're saying is not the entire story.
They are designed to be a poke style, more bursty but NOT sustained. While they were designed to be this way, they were also very good sustained damage as all you traded was the mini gun attack speed passive... So there were very few points where the mini gun was the better choice.
The mana cost was supposed to be a gating factor, which is why they didn't have a bigger draw back before, but by now it's obvious that the rockets are too powerful.
Yeah, so you sit back and your entire front line gets wiped out because you couldn't kill Darius fast enough. Fishbones isn't inherently better than the minigun. If your team isn't very ahead, the assassination power from minigun could make a fight if you position properly.
Well, only situation where I can imagine minigun is better are 1vs1 duels. But as ADC, you aren't supose to do that so...
The rockets do so much damage lol. its insane
So did you stop reading after that sentence?
Pretty sure there was more to it than that.