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Plat player's opinions on Jinx - Pros and Cons, Build, Playstyle, and Teamcomps

Steelflame·9/27/2013, 6:08:37 PM·5 votes·268 views

This is a mirror of what I posted on General Discussion, just so that it seems more of the playerbase on this thread http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3899235.

It is a bit too long to post here due to size restraints here, but I'll try and compress it to a format that works better here, and have some comments for other parts of it like her builds.

Hi, Plat level player here, posting his opinion on the new champion, Jinx, on the PBE, after a few games with her there. Going to go over her pros, cons, builds, playstyle, and the type of teamcomp you would pick her into or against optimally.

I personally consider her, in her current state to be very strong, probably slightly OP.  Mostly needs some number tuning I think for this on a few of her base damages and perhaps base AD, but assuming this happens, I would say she would be in a fine, balanced state with very few changes.

Pros - Unholy damage, very low CD global ulti, really good mana cost, high poke/execution potential.

Cons - Very conditional mobility, very prone to assassins/focus due to having no method of protecting herself from targets who can instant gap close. Team comp needs to be formed somewhat around protecting her, think of her like a Kog'maw, just with more mid game, and less late game overall.

Build - She has massive AD ratios. She has a VERY strong mid game AS steroid, letting her focus on that raw AD till later on. (Con. in Comments)

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Steelflame9/27/2013, 6:09:44 PM3 votes

First item - This means you want to focus on AD, especially early game. This means that for first items, she wants a BT. BoRk has very low AD on it, and the active is pretty low range nowadays. Just stat comparisons, her Q by rank 9 has a 130% AS steroid. This means that BorK's 40% AS is very weakly felt. Her Q rockets have an 1.1 AD multiplier on them, and AoE, while the BorK passive won't be AoE'ed. Note that the Lifesteal is not applied to the AoE, only the initial hit, regardless of item. She has a 1.4 AD ratio on Q, and 100 AD from BT is 140 damage more on it, vs just a very weak ~32 damage from BorK. While Bork has a very strong active, she should NOT be in range to ever use it. While you could start working on IE this early, it is heavily delaying her really strong mid game and AD ratios. She doesn't have low enough CDs to be a Trinity user, and most of the stats are wasted overall, and it is much more expensive. Phage may give a stronger lane for a very short duration, but it isn't worth the lack of building into anything good on her. Obviously, get boots upgraded by the time you finish this off. Bezerker's is probably the only choice on this matter short of some pretty extreme circumstances otherwise pushing it to Mercs/Swifties/Tabi.

Second item - At this point, you now have a massive AD item in BT. You are starting to hit the point of the game your Q is in it's prime, with it's 130% AS steroid. You haven't really start to felt your very bad AS per level kick in too hard, meaning you can still focus on more damage. At this point, you have three major options, although I will say most likely you will be going with the first one. [B]Option 1[/B] : Last Whisper. You can heavily utilize it's easy build path, decent AD, and great Arpen. At this point in the game, teamfights are starting, and most likely you will spend most of your time hitting their front line, so the Arpen is prefered. With you very high base damages, the Arpen is being maximized quite heavily. [B]Option 2[/B] : Infinity Edge. This is a choice you make vs a teamcomp that is mostly squishies, or if you want to maximize your AA damage against a low armor team. This synergizes very heavily with the next item you will be getting if you do get it now, but it is nearly 1.75x the price of option 1. Good if you are snowballing. [B]Option 3[/B] : Youmoo's Ghostblade. This item is great for a very heavy midgame focus on objectives/towers, as well as a self peel option via it's active. Good synergy with Rocket form via giving her a strong AS steroid. It also will give you slightly more damage vs squishies, and works well with an IE. Most likely will negate option 1 of your Third Major item. - Continued in further comments -