LoL Wild Rift Jinx Build & Guide (Patch 5.0) - Runes, Counters, Items, Ability Analysis

S Tier

Class: Marksman

Recommended Lane: Dragon

Best Jinx Wild Rift build guide for Season 11 Patch 5.0 of WR. With our Jinx guide you will learn which items to build, runes to select, skill order, who counters Jinx, and how to use abilities properly.

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Jinx lives to wreak havoc without care for the consequences. With an arsenal of deadly weapons, she unleashes the loudest blasts and brightest explosions to leave a trail of mayhem and panic in her wake. Jinx is a hyper carry who has one of the highest possible late game DPS thanks to her passive, Get Excited! and first ability Switcheroo! which grants a massive attack speed boost. She is also a marksman which has is capable of doing massive AoE DPS thanks to her Fishbones, The Rocket Launcher form.

Jinx Wild Rift Build Recommendation

Here are Item Build Recommendations that works on this champion and which are the best build for Jinx Wild Rift in this patch.

Critical Cannon

Rapid Firecannon [This item has been removed from WR]

This is the standard build for Jinx Wild Rift which centers on increasing both her single target and AoE DPS.

Stormrazor – Energized attacks deal bonus damage and slow
Gluttonous Greaves – grants bonus lifesteal which helps Jinx sustain herself since she doesn’t get early vamp items. Upgrade with the Quicksilver Enchant to have the dispel active to save yourself from crowd controls
Infinity Edge – Gives a large amount of damage and critical strike. Acquiring this item is your first power spike because you’ll have a massive DPS spike once you activate Get Excited! when you have this item.
Runaan’s Hurricane – This is a staple item for Jinx because of its interaction with Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher. With this item, Jinx becomes a potent team fight AoE damager.
Rapid Firecannon – Grants bonus damage and range on Energized attacks thanks to its Firecannon Barrel Passive.
Mortal Reminder – Increase your damage against tanks and those with high sustain with Mortal Reminder’s armor penetration and Grievous Wounds effect.

Vampiric Cannon

This Jinx Wild Rift build is for extra hard games which prioritzes Bloodthirster as the first item to have the lifesteal effect early on to increase your chances of surviving. Phantom Dancer is chosen over Rapid Firecannon for the lifeline passive as another defensive measure.

Runes for Jinx in Wild Rift

Listed down below are the best runes for Jinx in Wild Rift.

Lethal Tempo is Jinx’s only and her best keystone as her kit heavily relies on landing basic attacks and the burst of attack speed will certainly allow her to deal more damage during teamfights.
Gathering Storm – Provides bonus AD every few minutes. This rune augments Jinx’s late-game hypercarry nature.
Loyalty – Grant additional defense when with an ally. A little more defense during the laning phase is a plus.
Sweet Tooth – Grants additional healing and bonus gold for eating the fruits. Try to eat as much to accumulate the extra gold bonus.

Spells

In our Jinx Wild Rift Guide, here are the best champion spells that you can equip on her.

Heal is one of the best summoner spell in the dragon lane right now for marksmen because it heals both you and your support and gives you a short burst of movement speed bonus.

Flash is a spell that Jinx can’t go without because she is an immobile champion and without Flash, she’s just simple food for assassins.

Skill Order

Max 1st, Switcheroo! first to maximize the range for Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher, and the bonus attack speed for Pow-Pow, the Minigun. We’re going to max 2nd, Zap! second because all of its stats scale with level while we will max 3rd, Flame Chompers! last because its root duration does not scale and there is not much benefit to decreasing its cooldown early on. Get a point in her ultimate whenever possible.

Abilities

Get Excited!

Passive

Scoring a takedown on a champion or structure that Jinx has damaged within the last 3 seconds grants her 150% decaying Movement Speed and 15% Total Attack Speed for 6 seconds.

While Excited, Jinx can exceed the Attack Speed cap.

Switcheroo!

Active

Swaps weapons –

Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher: Attacks cost Mana but gain 75 range and explode to deal 110% damage to the target and enemies around it.

Pow-Pow, the Minigun: Attacks grant bonus Attack Speed for 3 seconds. This effect stacks up to 3 times for a total of 30%.

Pow-Pow’s stacks fall off one at a time and will only benefit the first attack fired from Fishbones.

Zap!

Active

Fires a shock blast that deals 103 physical damage (10 + 180% AD) to the first enemy hit, granting vision of it and slowing it by 30% for 2 seconds.

Flame Chompers!

Active

Tosses out three chompers that arm after a bit delay. Chompers explode on contact with enemy champions, interrupting their dashes and rooting them for 1.3 seconds. Enemies hit by the explosion take 70 mage damage (70 + 100% AP).

Chompers last for 5 seconds and will explode automatically if no champion triggers them.

Super Mega Death Rocket!

Active

Fires a mega-rocket that gains damage and speed over the first second it travels. The rocket explodes on the first enemy champion hit, dealing 25 to 250 physical damage (25 + 15% bonus AD to 150% bonus AD) plus 25% of their missing health. Nearby enemies take 80% damage.

Abilities Analysis

Innate: Get Excited!

Jinx’s passive makes her quite OP in the late game. Get Excited! increases Jinx’s attack and movement speed by a great deal for a short while when she scores a takedown on an enemy champion or enemy turret. Once her passive activates, she becomes an unstoppable monster that is near impossible to deal with.

Q | 1st: Switcheroo!

Switcheroo! allows her to switch between two forms, Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher and Pow-Pow, The Minigun.

Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher deals long-range enhanced AoE damage which works well with Runaan’s Hurricane as shown in the picture above. The AoE damage also works with the additional projectile which makes it exceptionally strong against clumped-up targets.

The catch with Fishbones is that it expends mana with each attack. Jinx mana depletes extremely fast while using Fishbones, especially in the early game. Furthermore, it is not good at 1v1 situations, which is where Pow-Pow comes in.

Pow-Pow, the Minigun has a shorter range, even compared to most marksmen, but with each attack using Pow-Pow will increase Jinx’s attack speed by a given amount which stacks up to 3 times. This makes Jinx superior in terms of single target DPS and when combined with Get Excited!, makes Jinx’s DPS shoot through the roof.

As a rule of thumb, use Fishbones to harass and damage from afar and use Pow-Pow for all-in engages and 1v1s.

W | 2nd: Zap!

Zap is a long range poke that deals physical damage and slows the first enemy it hits. It is a great poking tool in the early game and a gap closer or finisher in the middle to late game.

E | 3rd: Flame Chompers!

Flame Chompers is Jinx’s only crowd control and form of self-peel (way of protecting one’s self).

Flame Chompers always drop in a line and will activate only after a bit of delay. Placing them directly below a moving champion will give them time to avoid it. It is better used in one of three methods (non-exhaustive list):

As a follow-up crowd control to your ally’s more reliable method of crowd control.
As protection from melee pursuers. Drop the Flame Chompers in front of you when you are being chased by a melee champion. Walk over your traps while kiting the enemy which will force the enemy to either get rooted or give up chasing you.
To block off the enemy’s escape route on a choke point or limit their options in wide spaces. Throwing your Flaming Chompers on one side of the lane will at least limit your enemy’s options and force them to group together and be predictable.

R | Ultimate: Super Mega Death Rocket!

Super Mega Death Rocket! is a global range ult which is an execution skill as well. The damage the rocket deals scales with the range it traveled and from the missing HP of the affected enemy. It can potentially execute an enemy below 30% HP from any range. It travels fairly fast.

Aside from using Jinx’s ultimate as a global range execution tool and for stealing Baron or Dragon, that’s all that there is to it.

Jinx Early Game Guide

Jinx has an average early game strength. She can poke enemies a little using her Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher mode because of its long range but her Launcher mode is heavily limited by its mana cost in the early game so try to use it sparingly.

But Jinx has no mobility tool and her 3rd, Flame Chompers! are unreliable as a peeling tool so never overextend on Jinx because she’s vulnerable if enemies get near her.

Use your 1st, Switcheroo! to switch between modes. If you are having a hard time against enemies, last hit using Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher but reserve your attacks only for last hitting to conserve your mana pool.

If minions are close to your turret, you will be able to use Pow-pow, the Minigun to shove the waves so that it will not crash into your turret.

If you are paired with a support with crowd control, follow up their crowd control with your 3rd, Flame Chompers!

But if you are paired with a poke-type enchanter, poke enemies with your Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher and W, Zap! until their HP is low enough for an all-in but do not overextend as losing farm is detrimental for Jinx.

Jinx Late Game Guide

Jinx is a force to be reckoned with in the mid and late game. She is a hypercarry who is capable of carrying games with minimal help from her team as long as she has superior positioning.

Once Jinx Gets Excited! She becomes probably the strongest ADC in the game. Play it safely behind your teammates before you Get Excited! And once you get a takedown or destroyed a turret, go crazy on the enemy team!

If you don’t have the passive activated, you can play it safe by using your Fishbones, the Rocket Launcher for the extra range and AoE damage. Once you are sure of the enemy’s position and you are near allies, switch to Pow-pow, the Minigun to increase your DPS.

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Synergies

For our Jinx Wild Rift Guide, we highly recommend using her with the following champions as they synergize well with her.

Blitzcrank has pretty good synergy with Jinx with the Rocket Grab + Flame Chompers! combo that when executed successfully, is an almost guaranteed kill. Jinx is weak in the early game but it changes into the opposite when she is paired with Blitzcrank.

Jinx becomes an unstoppable force when enabled by Lulu. Because of this, they have become a quite popular pair in high elo because of their OP synergy. Lulu increases Jinx’s DPS and makes sure that she survives any attempts to kill her.

All Jinx Wild Rift Counter Champions

In this section, we’ll specifically show champions that can easily counter Jinx in Wild Rift.

Jhin has extreme kill pressure in the laning stage, the stage that Jinx is the weakest. Jhin’s abilities also has the range, damage, and pressure which will make Jinx’s early game a hard one. However, Jinx will generally win the game if she survives the early game healthily by not giving too much of a lead to Jhin.

Miss Fortune has a strong poke ability which makes it impossible for her enemy to farm especially if she is paired with another poke-type enchanter. Denying farm is crucial to beating Jinx.

Pros & Cons About Jinx

Here are some pros and cons if you are playing with Jinx in Wild Rift.

Pros

Jinx has one of the highest single target DPS in the game.
She is pretty versatile, being able to switch from a single target DPS shredder into a long range AoE artillery.
High Pentakill potential in the late game with Get Excited!

Cons

Jinx has no natural escape mechanism.
Weak and vulnerable during the early game.
Very item dependent.

FAQ's About Jinx in Wild Rift

How good is Jinx in Wild Rift?

Jinx is a (Tier S) champion. She is currently one of the most popular ADC because of unstoppable hypercarry snowballing.

What role / lane should I play with Jinx in Wild Rift?

Jinx is played in the Dragon lane as an ADC. She requires farm but she comes online fast in the mid game and even in the early game once she bags some champion takedowns.

What abilities do I level up with Jinx?

What items should I build with Jinx?

Jinx should be built with Blade of the Ruined King first for the on-hit %HP damage effect which synergizes with Jinx’s attack speed. Afterwards, she should get Infinity Edge and Runaan’s Hurricane to increase her hyper carrying capability.

What Runes should I use when playing as Jinx?

Conqueror increases Jinx’s damage with each attack. Perfect combination with the stacking nature of her kit. Her other runes are Gathering Storm, Loyalty, and Sweet Tooth.

Any tips so I can aim my Jinx's ultimate better

Wait for a few moments before activating your ultimate so you’ll have a better idea of where the enemy is. The longer you wait, the better the chance that the enemy has stopped to recall.