Might be an unpopular opinion: Runaan's Hurricane should lose the crit again

chipndip1··1 votes·959 views

I'm gonna be honest here: Hurricane fights for space against Shiv, and that's only if both aren't being beat by RFC. On top of this, Hurricane being a crit item just eats at what Jinx can potentially call her own niche (which is providing aoe coverage on AAs from a distance, which makes up for her inability to apply single-target damage as well during team fights), which makes her pretty irrelevant because any hyper carry can become Jinx (kinda, but Twitch most definitely) by buying Hurricane if they want to. If Hurricane becomes more about synergizing with on-hit and less with crit, you can sharpen that identity and help out on-hit users that may need the item, like Kayle and Kog, while keeping picks like Twitch from invading on Jinx's space

You'd do a service for one of my favorite champs in the game, a service for the item itself since it won't have to constantly compete with Shiv all the time on potential users, and it could be tuned to synergize with on-hit marksmen more than it does now. A lot of wins for a lot of those involved.

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disregardable1 votes

Hurricane is only good if your kit intrinsically supports it. ADCs without on-hit effects never build it. The little sprogs aren't good enough by themselves.

chipndip11 votes

With it the way it is, you never really need to draft Jinx, who's entire point is "aoe damage AAs" because you can just draft someone (Ashe, Twitch, Varus) that has something else and then just give them Jinx's main draw, which is to apply aoe crits to AAs. If Runaan's stays this way, Jinx would need to be changed to do something else well. If it were to be reverted, other champs still have their main thing, but Jinx's main thing would be her main thing and not everyone else's main thing.

disregardable1 votes

No, Jinx doesn't need changed. You never NEED to draft any specific champion. You can just bring an assassin ADC and make the mid laner bring AOE if you want. She has a flexible kit, has the best siege out of any ADC, and is fun to play.

chipndip11 votes

The only thing you said that was possibly true is "She's fun to play".

Tristana sieges turrets WAY harder than Jinx.

Kai'Sa and Varus are way more flexible than Jinx.

Jinx has literally nothing to call her own in this game as long as Runaan's is this way. Aoe AAs was her thing. That was the point of her having the AA penalty, because she'd attack way slower and compensate by hitting multiple people at once. When a bunch of other champs can also access aoe dps with no attack speed penalty, she's literally nothing of value to this game anymore.

disregardable1 votes

Tristana sieges turrets WAY harder than Jinx.

not until both her Q and E are fully upgraded. they gutted her base values a while ago. Jinx on the other hand has full siege power at level 9.

Kai'Sa and Varus are way more flexible than Jinx.

now I don't play these champions much, so I'm not going to say you're wrong. I just don't understand why you believe that champions with such one dimensional playstyles are flexible. they can build AP, but they play the same way. they impact the team the same way.

chipndip11 votes

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not until both her Q and E are fully upgraded. they gutted her base values a while ago. Jinx on the other hand has full siege power at level 9.

And who's going to siege at 525 range when enemies are trying to catch you out during the process? Tristana holds full attack speed while trying to siege. Jinx has to do it with rockets unless the turret's free, and at that point it hardly matters who you are.

now I don't play these champions much, so I'm not going to say you're wrong. I just don't understand why you believe that champions with such one dimensional playstyles are flexible.

Kai'Sa has access to literally every defensive carry item in the game, from Zhonya's to GA to Banshee's to QSS, and Varus has like 4 different builds between lethality, adc, apc, and on-hit. Jinx is LITERALLY played one way.

I get it: You like Jinx. Doesn't mean she's not in a bad way due to Runaan's Hurricane.

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