Can we tone down Jinx a little?

Espurr VI··9 votes·844 views

Early game she's okay, but late game she is an absolute nightmare. With any sort of peel, it's impossible to kill her. I'm not saying this lightly, last game I was playing Talon, and even after cleansing all the CC I took when I jumped on her, she was able to kill me faster than I could, and she took practically no damage.

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Kaioko3 votes

You mean a late game hyper-carry with a team that actually peels for her is a threat late game? Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

I hate my ADC2 votes

You mean like Vayne and Tristana?

I mean... it's what they do. They are extra weak in the early game, free kills even, but their late game is extremely strong. That's the whole point of the champion.

Espurr VI3 votes

The issue is, Tristana and Vayne have single target damage. If Jinx built correctly, her rockets deal AoE splash damage easily killing everyone including tanks. From how I see it, as soon as Jinx gets 4-5 items, she becomes practically unkillable.

I hate my ADC2 votes

Tristana usually builds a Hurricane and she has a lot of AoE potential. >.> Twitch is also a late game ADC and he is the very definition of AoE your entire team down.

Jinx is perfectly killable with 4-5 items, she still has to build like an ADC. If you can't kill her, then it's either because you try to engage her by running thru her team or her team is actually protecting her properly and you can't find an opening to get her.

Espurr VI2 votes

What your saying should be true, but I did jump on Jinx, and literally hit her with all the damaging abilities I had. I full combo from a 5 item talon should always mean death to an adc, but not her. She simply healed it all back and killed me almost instantly.

I hate my ADC2 votes

By herself or with her support nearby?

You also mentioned that you had to cleanse thru a lot of CC to get to her in your first post. I find it hard to believe that a Jinx alone would survive a Talon unless she is far more fed than you are.

Espurr VI2 votes

We were about equal. She and I had about 5 items.

I hate my ADC2 votes

She had a Dominik against your Black Cleaver and Chain Vest and you had no Youmuu. She also finished the game with 4k more gold than you. Plus, you won the game so why the complaints?

Also, if she was alone, with ignite you should of easily took her down. If she was with the blitzcrank, he could just shield her for like nearly 700 damage.

PermabannedGaren1 votes

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You mean like Vayne and Tristana?

I mean... it's what they do. They are extra weak in the early game, free kills even, but their late game is extremely strong. That's the whole point of the champion.

Jinx is not extra weak in the early game.

She's also not really a hypercarry, even by League standards.

I hate my ADC2 votes

You mean by your standards.

Jinx Switcharoo and Get Excited are the one reason why she's a hyper carry. She scales on items far more than most ADC because of her bonus attack speed and Fishbones bonus damage and range.

She's weak early game because she doesn't have the mana and range to trade. She's easy to bully because of it. Especially when her only escape if she doesn't get a kill is her traps.

disregardable1 votes

You couldn't 1v1 a Jinx as a fed assassin, and you're blaming balance? lol.

Espurr VI2 votes

I landed all my abilities on her, with rake hitting twice. An ADC getting hit with EVERYTHING a Talons got shouldn't be able to live unless they have guardian angel, or some sort of invulnerability.

disregardable1 votes

It's a shame you aren't signed up for replay.gg, this would've been good.

paperbIade1 votes

KogMaw Vayne >Jinx

RageQ21 votes

Skarner Will fix all your problems...

PermabannedGaren1 votes

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Early game she's okay, but late game she is an absolute nightmare. With any sort of peel, it's impossible to kill her. I'm not saying this lightly, last game I was playing Talon, and even after cleansing all the CC I took when I jumped on her, she was able to kill me faster than I could, and she took practically no damage.

This is impossible. Jinx built no armour or health. Talon's combo can easily 100-0 Jinx. You say you cleansed the CC you took? CC tends to come with damage. You were probably already low health and she crit you to kill you. So?

Also, I have good news for you friend! Not only is Jinx not going to be nerfed, but Rito just gave her a buff!

Treune811 votes

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This is impossible. Jinx built no armour or health. Talon's combo can easily 100-0 Jinx. You say you cleansed the CC you took? CC tends to come with damage. You were probably already low health and she crit you to kill you. So?

Also, I have good news for you friend! Not only is Jinx not going to be nerfed, but Rito just gave her a buff!

Jinx will get nerf after Worlds.

DemainaNyx1 votes

An ADC will always win against anyone if someone is there to peel for them, that is their job. Unless the CC you were cleansing was her chompers, I'm assuming someone else was with her.

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