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mafia jinx

Who is Jinx? Jinx is a marksman who offers a lot of attack damage to the team to kill her enemies. Though she could offers a lot of damage, she is very squishy as a sponge, especially because of her short range (except she use her skill). She needs a lot of help from her teammate to be able to be useful for her team. For that reason, this guide will help you to be able to use her on the right way. What is in this guide? This guide will cover all things you need for Jinx. Skills, items, masteries, gameplay, synergies, counters and everything else. If you see something missing and you don't know what to do, don't be afraid to ask. If there is something wrong in this guide, please give your feedbacks. I love feedbacks :D

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Pros + Long range poke with high damage + Great steroid (130% attack speed and 10% AD) + High range late game + Quick minion clear + Good utility (for both escaping and chasing) + Global ultimate Jinx offers a lot of things as a marksman. Zap! gives her a very good poke early game and even late game because it scales off with her AD (140%) which is very great (because the range is higher than normal basic attack). She doesn't really need any attack speed item her Pow-Pow, the Minigun. Additionally her Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher makes her range one of the highest in game(first being Tristana). Fishbones is also great at clearing minion waves. Don't forget that it also gives 10% bonus AD (though not that big, it could make a little thing different). Flame Chompers! could be used to either trap the enemy from running or blocking way from the enemy chasing you. She also has a global ult that is useful to finish enemy and help a teammate from far away.

Cons - Easily killed when focused - Have mana issues early game - Low range early game - No in-built escape - Need to be snowbally Like any other AD carry, Jinx is very very, and once again, very easy to be killed. Her health is very low. She needs a great teammate to help her not being hit by the enemy. Early game, she has some early mana problems. If she wanted to keep up pushing with someone like Caitlyn or Ashe, she must or should use Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher and it costs a lot of mana. Her Zap! also use a lot of mana and she needed it to poke. Early game, she will use a lot of Pow-Pow, the Minigun and it gives her a short range causing her to be easily poked. She also has no built in escape tools (only slows and roots) so she needed to be positioned carefully, especially with her low range. She is also very snowbally. If she had a bad start, she will have a lot of problems

Get Excited! While it is not the best passive, it is good in some of tricky situations. With this passive, you could split push the lane, destroy a tower and run to safety before enemy comes. There are some unique things that this passive offers that could be the matter of life and death. If you are in teamfight but your team lost the battle, you could kill one of their lowest health champion and then run fast to safety to defend your base. Other than that, you could use your ult to kill enemies from base so you could get back to battlefield sooner

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Pow-Pow, the Minigun Jinx has this gun while this skill is not leveled up but don't have any advantage from it. While it is leveled up, this gun gives a huge, i mean HUGE amount of attack speed each successful attack, up to 130%. Always activate it when you are 1vs1 and attacking towers. Many people take this first, but me, i prefer taking it second for the poke of Zap! and it is nerfed early game but still maximize it first. Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher Meanwhile, this gun will give you AoE basic attacks and more range. DON'T use it in laning phase because you will run out of mana very very quick and unable to use other skill for chasing or escaping. Only use it when you are too outpushed. Also, if you killed enemies, use it to clear minion waves so you could get to tower faster and deal more damage to tower. Also use it when enemy is running away because the range is just ridiculous.

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Zap! Zap is a very good poke. The range is very long and the damage on it scales very great (140% AD). It could be used in many ways. First, it could be used to check bushes. I recommended using it in line with the bushes so you hit most of the bush area to make sure if there is enemy because if it hits enemy, it reveals the enemy for some time. Other than that, Zap! could be use to zone the enemy while laning. If you find any open space, you could fire your zap and hit the enemy. Try using it on where the enemy is going because it needs some charge up. It could also be used to chase enemy because it slows them. Level it up first for the poke potential but maximize it second because it's better to level up Q

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Flame Chompers! Flame chompers could be used both offensively and defensively. Offensively, you could use it to trap enemies from running away because they need to walk around it or risked by walking over it and being rooted. Always use it some (not a bit) distance from the enemy because it needs charge up time. The damage on it is pretty good so you could also use it to have more damage. Defensively, you could use this to escape from enemies. Put it on or after you so they need to walk around it or rooted for some second, giving you time to run away. Get it 4th and maximize it last because it is only for the utility mostly.

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Super Mega Death Rocket! Yay! Another global ult for ADC. There are many things that could be use with it. There is one thing that should be avoided. Don't use it early in fight. Why? Because this skill also damage the enemy by 25/30/35% of the enemy's missing health. So, the later you use this skill (the less the enemy health is) the higher the damage is. Other than finishing enemy, this thing will help ally too. Try to aim it from an other side of map when you see an ally is 1vs1 the enemy. Someone like Garen or Elise will have advantage because some of their skill have more damage the lower the enemy's is. It could also be used for escaping. Try to aim it to the lowest enemy's health so when they are dead you will trigger the passive and could run away from the enemy. Don't be too afraid to use it, it has fairly short cooldown. Always level it up when it is available

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Flash This spell could act as two things : Free Get Out of Jail or Free Gap Closer. But, be a bit careful when using this because it has long cooldown. If you think you have what it takes to run away and most of your skill is off cooldown, don't use it. But you need to be 75% sure you are safe. And you need to be 100% sure you will kill the enemy when using flash offensively.

Barrier This is a good spell for a marksman. This will give you more time to delivers more damage or save yourself from an ignite, DoT damage or a global ult ( Karthus ult, Caitlyn ult). It has lower cooldown than Flash too.

Exhaust Pretty good when you are facing many assassins in enemy team but usually you want your support to take this.

Ignite This is a very satisfying spell if you use it to a low hp champion that is almost death but successfully running. Though, it isn't the best spell around because it needs a short range to cast and a marksman shouldn't be close to enemy in teamfight.

Heal Currently better than Barrier because not only it heals you, it enables you to run faster for second and also free you from enemy's ignite

Ghost If you haven't get Flash yet, this is a nice alternative for running away from enemies. It will not be as effective as flash because it couldn't be as tricky as flash. But, still it's good.

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Teleport : No, she doesn't need this. Early, you have support to sustain the lane. She also has passive to return to lane fast.

Clairvoyance : This is more of a support thing, not for a crime girl

Clarity : She might have some problems with mana but late on game, this spells is totally useless

Smite : NO, just no, what could a crime girl do in jungle. There is no crime that could be done there

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Greater Quintessence of Attack Speed With the nerf to the lifesteal quint and the buff to this, it's a pretty good rune to go as it will help your early game damage

Greater Mark of Attack Damage This mark of attack damage will help her last hitting the minions early game and giving out bonus damage late game because sometimes enemy run with around 25 health.

Greater Seal of Armor This will help her have more sustain early game because she will face another ADC in bot lane and protects her from some poke. Late game it helps her mitigates more damage from AD damage from enemy's ADC, AD Top (such as Riven), AD jungler (such as Shaco), AD mid (such as Zed)

Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist It will help her against enemy's poke support early game and can help her to protect herself from enemy's ap carry later.

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A Great Start If you are positive with your skills, especially having a more aggresive support (because you will heal harder). Combined with your runes of lifesteal, you could regain health pretty fast and able to stand in lane longer. Though, you will sell it as soon as you have a near full build for your last item space

A Safe Start Though, it is safer to start with this item. It will give you early movement speed to chase/run and more reliable healing. Though it will not give you any AD, so, most of times, Doran's Blade is better

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Sustaining in Lane Whatever happened, always buy this item. The early lifesteal from it will help her stay in lane for a longer time without the help from support. This will enable her to farm more and more without going back to base. Other than that, this is the base item to build better items

Time to Run In LoL, everyone needs to run, both for escaping and chasing. If you have bought the boots for the starting items, quickly upgrade it. Even if you haven't, upgrade it as soon as possible

Huge AD Booster This is the biggest AD booster item (aside sword of the occult which is very risky) in LoL. In max stacks it gives you 100 AD + 18% lifesteal. I will reccomend this more than BOTRK. The only downside is it gives nothing else other than stats (no passive or active) If enemy are building more armor than health, buy this. You could actually buy both lifesteal items if you want to have a fun day of game (not recommended though)

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Extra Attack Speed This is a common boot for ADC. Though, because Jinx has attack speed steroid, this boot is not necessary but pretty nice

Running Technique This is a very great item for enemy that has a lot of AP or a lot of CC. Other than the magic resist it gives to survive AP caster, it gives tenacity to reduce the amount of CC you get. Tenacity is a great stat for enemy with high CC especially because Jinx could easily died when CCed. This is specially great when facing a huge CC support

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Lucky Flash With this enchantment you could get your Flash faster. Though, it couldn't be that reliable because sometimes it is the same as without this. But once or twice or even more, it could save you.

Time to Chase With this item, you could get a free movement speed when chasing an enemy. Other than that, it gives bonus to your ult so you could ult from far away and get a bonus movement speed to go there faster

Crit All The Way This is very great to go to the middle in teamfight because of the movement speed bonus. But it doesn't give as good as furor while in teamfight

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AoE Thunder As for now, your basic attacks should be focusing on crit damage. Statikk Shiv will be a good option for Jinx. This give her additional crit chance. The passive is very great for bonus damage and once again with her attack speed steroid because she could get it faster. Though, it has rather not so high basic stats. Buy this only if you don't have enough money to buy PD

Dance Through Minions Rather than Statikk Shiv, this item gives better stats but more of a utility passive than offensive passive. It might be better to have this item because the higher attack speed and crit chance, especially if your team already has a huge AoE mage.

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Second Life This is one of the best item. Giving some nice stats of armor and magic resist and a possible second life. This is very great combined with barrier. You could "die", then revive, quickly turn on barrier and lifesteal to turn around the fight

Extra Lifesteal If enemy is not very bursty, an extra lifestea0l item can help in a prolonged teamfight

Items Like Mercurial Scimitar and Banshee's Veil can help fighting against enemy's APC

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Jinx is not a good early game AD carry. She really needs a great support to help her in lane. A great poker, sustain is the best and CC will help too. Why? She has one of the lowest range ADC and her Zap! cannot pass through minions. She also has no reliable escape skill so she needs to has a good sustain.

The most important thing is to don't forget last hit minions. Second, be careful of enemy's poke because your health could be easily decreased and you need to return to base many times, unless you have a healer. If you want to face check a brush, use Zap! so you could see if there is an enemy. NEVER overpush the lane. There could be a jungler waiting to gank. You should always have 1 ward after going to shop. It's not only support work to ward, especially when season 4 starts

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Mid game is where you do your best. You should have your Q maximize and R available. If you have pushed your lane better than the other lane, start roaming the map. Help pushed lane. You should not overpush unless you have 1-2 teammates around you and some enemies spotted in lane. Don't forget to take dragon when it is available if you could. Try to destroy as many towers as possible. Protect all towers if possible.

If you find your teammate in problem, try to snipe your ult. This will help them a lot, making it possible to turn around the teamfight. Vision is very important this time. If you see an enemy isolated, be careful. It could be a bait and you find an enemy on the other side of bush. Never roam the enemy's jungle alone. There might be enemy

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This is the time where you will win or lose. Anything could happen. Always stay in back in teamfight. Ask your support/tank to guard you. Ask them to lock their CC on enemy's assassin because they could kill you in second. Focuse on the squishy/damage dealer enemy. Once they are dead, you could kill the other enemies easily.

Sometimes you could ult an enemy from your base when you are in your base while your teammate is in teamfight and you couldn't come fast enough to help. It could help between win and lose. If you are in a losin teamfight, try kill the lowest enemy health. This will activate Get Excited! and you could defend your base until your teammate respawn.