Getting tired of Jinx in every single game

Annie Bot Sucks··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

LaowPing12 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.

Annie Bot Sucks4 votes

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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.

Just move to the side of the rocket that's as wide as a fucking truck. Or ten.

LaowPing2 votes

It takes a while for her to shoot it. You have time to notice and move to the side. It's no where near as big as you make it out to be.

Annie Bot Sucks3 votes

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It takes a while for her to shoot it. You have time to notice and move to the side. It's no where near as big as you make it out to be.

And if it's across the map and you didn't have time to see her, the rocket thankfully moves faster than a Hecarim with homeguard and revive, so good luck dodging it.

LaowPing3 votes

If it's across the map then Jinx has to be a freaking pro to hit you with it. Or you're just standing still and forgot it exist. It's the same thing against Ezrael. When ever there's an ez and I see that I'm low I move father before I recall or go a different route. Unless you're fighting a psychi Jinx there is no reason for you to get hit with it from across the map. And it takes about 5 seconds for it to actually go across map and only 1 to switch your position enough for it to miss. No where near as fast as hecarim can move.

Sightless668 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.

Ulquiorra9954 votes

This basically. If someone spends hundreds of games mastering a champion, why shouldn't they be able to win more than half of their games with them.

And OP is very exaggerating up there. She is strong, maybe a bit too much - but nowhere near freelo. Untouchable? Hell no. You get to her and evade her choppers, she dies. Her retarded move speed is tied to her getting a kill or assist. She's not Vayne with 2 second CD dash, invisibility and knockback, or Sivir with spell shield and massive team-wide MS boost. Or Kalista. No comment needed on her. Unescapable due to her slow and team fight execute? All of her abilities have a slight delay and are perfectly dodgable.

I Miss Cannon2 votes

Sivir is an ult bot with some AoE and a weak early and she's no lategame-hypercarry. Basically every hypercarries early suck, expect Jinx. But yeah, she won't get nerfed because of all the 13 year old emoboys fanboying her.

Annie Bot Sucks7 votes

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

TheI3igDaddy6 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...

Annie Bot Sucks4 votes

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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...

How many ADC's have stupidass global ults? Ashe, Draven, Ezreal, Jinx. How many of them explode in an AoE, have a RETARDED hit box, and do upwards of 600 damage to multiple targets late game?

Just one.

Steelflame4 votes

Except Ezreal with AP can do upward of 1k+ damage with an ult hit (can still hit 500s without it though), has unlimited passthrough, meaning I can kill a team that isn't grouped up with a good lineup. Ashe, with a "long" range hit has a 3.5 second stun. Draven gets a second shot at trying to land it, if he misses the first pass, on top of monster AD scaling in his entire kit, including a 1.85 AD ratio on his AAs before crit is even applied (Hint. Draven is the only champ who can literally one shot a person with an AA that doesn't have infinite scaling. A 1.8k crit is possible on him).

Listing the strengths of an ability without the weaknesses doesn't show it's strength. All of those other champs, unlike Jinx? They have an ult that is powerful at CLOSE range. Ashe still has a 1 sec stun, which can be more than enough to win a fight, Draven often likes to use a close ulti for the reliable double hit, and Ezreal can instantly max his AS steroid + a nice burst of damage.

TheI3igDaddy1 votes

It's unlimited passthrough, but its damage goes down as it hits more targets. The first target hit's going to take 100%, but then it's reduced.

Still, an AP Ez ult is still going to chunk everyone.

ZzEslIolZQ6 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.

Heckin Support1 votes

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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.

Just so tried that late game no one can even get their hands on her with her mile long auto with rockets and her super slow and root. And if she gets 1 kill in a teamfight good luck running from her or try to catch her. I just hate how she destroys towers with her amazing attack speed q but she can also clear an entire minion wave with 2-3 rockets but its k because they cost like 20 mana. She gets huge potential in laning, teamfighting, and pushing.

Morgy Morgy5 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

Curling Veigar1 votes

hey dude whatsup also

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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

she does this from left clicking realy hard

pE4CbxDPQO4 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.

Lugg4 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.

Annie Bot Sucks4 votes

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

They fixed her early game attack speed. Wow. That was totally the problem with her. Not her ridiculous range and safety.

I Miss Cannon3 votes

Early game attack speed fix, yet she can still cheese turrets with a dorans when you want to back for Bf Sword lol.

IceKingChernobog3 votes

and to make matters worse rito NERFS turrets

Lugg3 votes

Her safety is the WHOLE problem. Hyper carries are supposed to be high risk/high reward. Jinx has very little risk early which makes it easy for her to hard carry games.

Celeste Benal1 votes

Dude, no. Just jump on her. She has no sustain and is very slow.

MohawkBird2 votes

She has a lot of peel. It's not hard to throw chompers ahead of your enemy so they are active by the time you walk there.

Lugg1 votes

She lifesteals back so quick with just Doran's and minigun it's stupid. That and a couple pots give her plenty of sustain. Plus she has a support to back her up.

Abyssphere2 votes

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Her safety is the WHOLE problem. Hyper carries are supposed to be high risk/high reward. Jinx has very little risk early which makes it easy for her to hard carry games.

Eh, honestly I think League's hypercarries tend to be among the safest champions in the game. Look at Vayne, for example. She doesn't even need a support to peel for her after a certain point.

Lugg2 votes

Agreed. The only hyper carry who has problems early is Twitch. But if he has a good support, then he is fine too.

OperationDEEZ14 votes

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

Fadedpf3 votes

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

metaworldpeace103 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.

MohawkBird1 votes

Kog'Maw is about the only hyper-carry who actually suffers early game.

ShadowShoe223 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.

Blastermine2 votes

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

Celeste Benal2 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.

arc951 votes

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

warpenguin5551 votes

havent seen jinx in a few days tbh

Annie Bot Sucks1 votes

loll

Annie Bot Sucks1 votes

bumo

s LessThanThree1 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

CasterGilgamesh1 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

4ManVotedAgainst1 votes

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

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