Getting tired of Jinx in every single game

Annie Bot Sucks·7/13/2015, 2:50:03 AM·25 votes·2,276 views

You know, Jinx, that one hyperscaling snowball long-ranged AoE crit champion. The one that has powerful early game harass, a relevant mid game, and a godlike late game. The one that, if falling behind in lane, could ult across the entire map, pick up a kill, and proceed to snowball anyway. That one. Getting fucking tired of seeing her and Kalista in every other game.

http://champion.gg/champion/Jinx

There's a reason that over 50% of the people who have ever played her stuck with her for 50+ games. She's freelo. People with 125+ games played have a consistent 55% winrate. How is that acceptable? You'd be stupid to NOT spam her in ranked. In teamfights, she's unfocusable. She has retarded range and retarded movespeed, combined with a snare for the few times you actually do reach her. She's inescapable due to her slow, teamfight movespeed, and long-ranged execute. She has everything an ADC would ever want, with no downsides to picking her. She's a safe pick who remains relevant if unfed, and snowballs out of control if given a lead. She needs a nerf, and you couldn't hit any of her problematic aspects without ruining her identity... Because her identity is a fucking problem in and of itself.

42 Comments

LaowPing7/13/2015, 3:55:43 AM12 votes

Unfocusable? She has low movement speed, her chompers are very unreliable, and her slow is extremely telegraphed. As a jinx player, when people come after me, I get destroyed. Jinx doesn't have any reliable self peel. Most of the time when I do well it's because the enemy team acts like I'm not even there. And her ult is easy to dodge. Just move to the side.

Sightless667/13/2015, 4:08:42 AM8 votes

People with 125+ games played have a consistent 55% winrate. How is that acceptable?

How is that not acceptable? That's kind of what we expect. It's not really impressive. That's pretty standard. That's the same thing Draven, Quinn and Twitch have. Even Teemo mid players with 125+ wins get a 60% winrate. We expect people with that many games on a champion to be winning more games than other people. That's how this statistic works. More experience with a champion = a higher winrate with that champion. Hell, I'm actually surprised that winrate isn't higher. It kind of makes me question how strong I think Jinx is.

Jinx is a bit strong. Could maybe use another small nerf. Given how much Sivir is dominating competitive play though, and how much Jinx isn't, Sivir will (and should) take priority for balance attention for a bit.

Annie Bot Sucks7/13/2015, 3:01:30 AM7 votes

Of course, half of the community mains Jinx, so I'll expect massive downvotes.

TheI3igDaddy7/13/2015, 3:19:41 AM6 votes

You expect the masses of Jinx players to care? Nah, they're too busy loving this hyperactive cancer.

Between critting you from Caitlyn range, dropping towers like flies, and that stupid FUCKING ultimate, it's sad to see such a champ go so long without nerfing...

ZzEslIolZQ7/13/2015, 6:43:57 AM6 votes

Jinx's rockets are whats making her so broken in solo Q (it's like playing against a poke mage that can't miss and can spam every half a second for 500+ each hit). That and her passive which is just straight up stupid on a hypercarry.

So what does Riot do? Semi nerf machine gun early (it's a buff late) and lower her ult base by a bit even though it still executes people all the same from point blank cause 35% missing hp why the fuck not.

You gotta always remember Jinx was made by the stack king gypsylord who is literally certainlyT w/o the creativity. Literally all of his champs have overloaded stats and break the game once in a while cause they're so fundamentally overtuned, Jinx is no exception. Oh and yeah go randomly pick out a diamond 5 "ADC" main. 9/10 it'll be a Jinx player with some shit win rate on Vayne as their second most played. Disgusting champ is disgusting.

Morgy Morgy7/13/2015, 3:11:24 AM5 votes

IT'S ABOUT TIME SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT THIS GOOD GOD I WHOOP HER ASS EVERY DAMN LANING PHASE AND SHE STILL CARRIES FROM JUST DOING NOTHING

OperationDEEZ17/13/2015, 4:29:02 AM4 votes

You forgot that she gets a free 120% AS steroid just for AAing 3 times.

pE4CbxDPQO7/13/2015, 3:04:36 AM4 votes

Was wondering when the people would figure this out. I mained her on release, but just got kind of tired of it. Very strong adcarry.

Lugg7/13/2015, 3:26:36 AM4 votes

The last nerf they did to her was pretty much a joke. For a hyper-carry, her early game is still WAY too strong.

Fadedpf7/13/2015, 3:36:05 AM3 votes

Then buff people like this Ezreal ( adc ez ) MissFortune Twitch Quinn (bugs and qol)

metaworldpeace107/13/2015, 5:43:26 AM3 votes

Yeah, I agree. Jinx is annoying as hell to play against. For as strong of a late game that she has, she shouldn't be as strong and safe as she is in the early game. If you want a late game hyper carry, you should have tradeoffs, one of them being a bad and dangerous early game. That's not the case with Jinx though, one kill and bam she's snowballed outta control and you can't trade with her or she will kill you over and over again.

ShadowShoe227/13/2015, 6:17:49 AM3 votes

Yeah she's pretty insane, i played some games with her and got fed each time, but since she doesn't have a hard escape, she really does not like assassins, which is why in this kind of meta, where assassins have become less relevant with tanks sticking around, she tends to wreck faces.

Celeste Benal7/13/2015, 3:45:39 PM2 votes

You're smoking crack, dude. All you have to do is zone her off early and sh takes forever to catch back up. She has 0 escapes and is slow. Her only tools to keep her alive are good positioning and very careful use of her chompers, which are on a long-as-hell cool down, and take forever to activate. Her rockets consume mana on every AA, meanign she can easily go oom early. This leaves her with nothing but the chain gun (because no mana for W or E either), which has very short range compared to most ADCs' AAs. Her W is really only good for chasing, poke, and the occasional long range minion last hit.

Jump on Jinx early. Make her use up her mana or zone her off. If she gets hooked/grabbed by Thresh or Blitz, you're guaranteed to get summoners and/or 50% of her HP.

Blastermine7/13/2015, 5:52:35 AM2 votes

JarvanIV item 3134 item 3077 summoner 14

Not Jinx's fault that people don't pick hard counters.

CasterGilgamesh7/13/2015, 6:23:12 PM1 votes

JINX maybe a bit much but nothing that cant be beat shes a late game hypercarry thats her thing if you played an assassin like Talon Zed or Leblanc you would know its easy to kill her she has no escapes besides chomper but that is not very reliable

warpenguin5557/13/2015, 4:26:26 AM1 votes

havent seen jinx in a few days tbh

4ManVotedAgainst7/22/2015, 4:07:56 AM1 votes

Jinx is cancer & needs to be gutted/nerfed/deleted/etc

arc957/13/2015, 3:36:43 AM1 votes

I just play her for /dance and /laugh they're so funny <3

Annie Bot Sucks7/13/2015, 4:35:50 AM1 votes

loll

Annie Bot Sucks7/13/2015, 4:43:53 AM1 votes

bumo

s LessThanThree7/13/2015, 4:42:59 PM1 votes

Shes immobile which is why they don't pick her in LCS. League of Tanks and Fall of Assassins made her kind of too safe though. If assassins come to power again it will be the fall of jinx