I recently got into an argument with another person where we discussed whether or not jinx was a hypercarry. My argument is that jinx does not have enough mobility to compensate for her damage (unlike someone like vayne that can move around a lot). He doesn't really have an argument, he just claims that "all of the lcs people say that jinx is a hypercarry, although he didn't cite anything specific. What do you think?
Yes, she is. The scaling on her attack steroid allows her to have a higher DPS than would other wise be available, allowing her to build to have far higher damage output than other carries.
My argument is that jinx does not have enough mobility to compensate for her damage
well if she kills 1 person in a team fight, she's gonna move pretty fast... then she can easily run away or chase someone down or kite the hell outa someone resulting in another kill, refreshing her speed steroid
and then theres that global execute ult of hers....
range. kog'maw is a hypercarry without mobility because of his range, he also has less cc to keep targets away from him compared to jinx.
My argument is that jinx does not have enough mobility to compensate for her damage
Mobility has nothing to do with being or not being a hyper-carry.
"Carry" is a term that carried over from DotA. In DotA, carry just means good scaling with items. In a broader sense, such champions have a weak early and strong late game, to where they need to be carried early and can carry part of their team late. Hyper-carry mostly means you can carry your entire team late with crazy damage scaling, or that the carry dynamic is the core part of a character's identity over also having attributes like "pusher" "ganker" "disabler" that are core to their workings.
Jinx having a 130% AS steroid, the best %AS steroid in the entire game, along with massive AD scaling on all her skills is very much a hyper-carry thing.
Her entire kit is more suited for late game, so I'd consider her a hypercarry.
Her early game has a few flaws:
Her late game is insane:
to wombo combo it with. Did it with a blue Ez in a ranked game and walked off with a kill each.My argument is that jinx does not have enough mobility to compensate for her damage
Are you shitting me? Have you even read her passive description? And to top that off, build Furor on pretty much any boots and let the movespeed summon forth it's tidal wave of destruction.
Jinx is absolutely a hypercarry, she has great range with fish bones and can AOE crit, pow pows attack speed bonus gives great dueling potential as well, if you get one kill and proc your passive the enemy team will have trouble escaping.
My argument is that jinx does not have enough mobility to compensate for her damage
Mobility doesn't make or break a hyper carry, Ashe comes close to being a hyper carry with her great item scaling.
My argument is that jinx does not have enough mobility to compensate for her damage
Kogmaw? definition of Hyper carry, Has ZERO mobility.
Jinx is most certainly a hyper carry. Her passive allows her to steamroll once she secures a kill in a team fight.
Yup she is a hypercarry because of her high attack speed steroid. She also does gain brief mobility from destroying Towers, inhibs and gaining kills and assists. So all of that together helps her be a hypercarry, since she can split push lanes very hard thus you should never leave her alone if there's a team fight going on and she's not in it.
