This picture emphasizes how I view the mana changes on PBE

I mean Jinx is quite reliant on her Q toggle to be an effective hypercarry in the late game due to her lack of escapes and defensive tools (traps have an arm time) so she really does need mana to be effective in the late game. 20 mana per auto, and she usually hits 2.5 AS, with her passive if nothing else.

That means she burns 50 mana a second, which is a lot for a champion who doesn't generally build items to increase/restore their mana. It actually makes perfectly good sense for a sustained dps to have a large mana pool, especially when compared to a champion who is focused on bursting and backing off (and thus doesn't need massive amounts of mana to be effective) and who also builds multiple mana items.

Honestly ya'll need to calm down with the circlejerk and think things through instead of mindlessly ganging up on anything you see that appears to support the opposite side. Lets do some math.

Lux, with 45% CDR & Ultimate hat (note her usual build only goes for 40% and UH), using abilities on CD, killing a target every time she ults, and only accounting for the casting time on her ult burns ~55 mana a second. This is slightly more than Jinx uses from just autoing at first glance. However also note that Lux runs Presence of Mind, significantly reducing this. She also doesn't usually cast on CD. Lets be generous and write it like this:

Lux: Max mana use: 55/sec Avg mana use: 30/sec

Now lets look at Jinx. First lets cover her max mana consumption like we did for Lux. Jinxes max mana consumption is based on her AS, which we can get pretty high if we try. First lets assume 2.5 AS + Lethal Tempo. Lethal tempo has a 6 sec duration, 6 sec CD, and 1.5 sec charge time. This leads to a 44.44% uptime. Shame Jhin doesn't take it. Anyways I don't feel like doing THAT much math, so we will say that between that and her passive we can hit 3 times the AS cap, 7.5 AS. We don't stop there though, we can throw a rageblade on top of that, resulting in 1.5X the mana consumption due to extra on hit effects. This puts us a 225 mana per second. Unfortunately Jinx builds none of those items/runes, and so we are left with her basic attacking at 50 mana/second. (Side note I left out muramana because I forgot and am lazy, but we could get her mana burn higher.)

Jinx: Max mana use: ~225/sec Avg mana use: 50/sec

And this is why you don't blindly jump agree with what others say or shut down what someone says just because you don't like it. While Leaf on Bush did exaggerate slightly, Jinx does burn more mana on average than Lux, and Lux can barely beat a normal jinx build out by maximizing her mana consumption.

So lets all be friends and not downvote spam a fact someone said just because it doesn't align with your opinion. There are perfectly valid reasons for Jinx to have a decent mana pool, and Leaf was surprisingly accurate with a rough estimate number.

Thanks!

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Actually, yes, I would not like that. I'm a level 7 mastery Lux, FYI.

And it's less about the smaller radius and more about the slower projectile speed. That is REALLY feelsbad.

doesnt change the fact that you lux players seem to desperately want a buff, but riot cant because shes shackled balance wise to the fact that her E is undodgeable and buffing her without changes to E would result in her being too oppressive in lane.