AD Carry

Jinx Build 26.22

Give Jinx a single takedown and she becomes a different champion, her Get Excited passive flooding her with attack and move speed the instant something dies. Her rockets and minigun swap between long range and raw DPS, and Flame Chompers roots a diver trying to end the party. String two kills together and she resets clean across a whole team. A comfortable pick at 51.4% and trending up, she is at her most dangerous once a fight breaks her way and the resets start rolling.

#32 of 78 ad carry this patch · 11.8k games

Win rate51.4%+0.8Games11.8kPick rate9.7%Ban rate4.0%Last 8 patches+0.5 since 26.15Damage profilei

AP 3%AD 95%True 2%DifficultyiModerateRewards fundamentals

The 10-second answer standard · 51.4% WR

Spells

Flash + Barrier Start

Berserker's Greaves SkillsQ›W›E Runes

Shards

ModernARAM Counter

173 champions

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When Is Jinx Strongest?

The high point is the late game, so every extra minute helps, and games at this rank average around 28 minutes. Jinx wins the same way every time: land a root or catch someone out, grab the reset, and let the takedown speed carry her through the rest of the fight.

Game timeline · Jinx drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step

your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives

Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end28:06

Ambush zone5:30–7:00 Power spike 23:27

8:29

12:14

18:21

23:27

0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00

At 12:00

Power 57/100 · Even

Core 0/3 items

Gold ~6k

Phase Lvl-6 window

Next spike Hexoptics C44 · 12:14

Jinx Item Build

Jinx is a hypercarry who turns one kill into a full-team wipe. The build loads up attack speed and crit so her minigun ramps and her rockets clear from range, and every takedown hands her the speed to chase the next one.

Standard loadout · Jinx The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 500g

Doran's Bow×1

Health Potion×2

Stealth Ward×1 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Berserker's Greaves94% · 51.8%

Gluttonous Greaves6% · 54.0%

Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up

vs AP threatsTheir damage is mostly magic — stack magic resist before their second item.M

Mercurial Scimitar32658.6%

vs AD threatsPhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.G

Guardian Angel1.1k64.6%

vs stacked resistsWhen resists stack, penetration beats raw stats — swap a damage slot.L

Lord Dominik's Regards4.5k57.8%T

The Collector23254.7%M

Mortal Reminder1.1k52.6%

vision controlFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.F

Farsight Alteration8.9k53.4%S

Stealth Ward2.7k45.4%O

Oracle Lens11342.5%

Best Jinx Runes

Lethal Tempo is the keystone, and on Jinx it is all about the ramp. The longer she is allowed to keep attacking, the more her minigun and the keystone stack together into absurd DPS. Everything else on the page supports staying alive long enough to reach that point in a fight. The rune and her passive reward the same thing, so play for sustained attacking, not burst.

The pre-game page Lethal Tempo · Precision + Inspiration · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Precision Primary

Lethal TempoAttacking an enemy champion grants you Attack Speed, up to 6 stacks. At max stacks, deal bonus adaptive damage On-Attack.

Presence of Mind95% · 51.5%

Legend: Bloodline92% · 51.4%

Cut Down65% · 51.5%

Keystone plus three minors from Precision, two from Inspiration, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Inspiration Secondary

Cash Back57% · 51.6%

Triple Tonic42% · 51.8%

Stat shards Offense

Attack Speed+10% Attack Speed

Flex

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Defense

Health+65 Health

Shards give +10%Attack Speed+9Adaptive Force+65Health

Build straight toward Hexoptics C44 into Runaan's Hurricane and let the game open up once it lands. Falling behind early is recoverable on this scaling curve. Runaan's Hurricane comes online by roughly 18 minutes, and from there a single takedown triggers Get Excited, her minigun revs to full speed, and she chain-resets across the whole team. Hang at max range in fights so that first pickoff can cascade into an ace.

Jinx Skill Order

Zap! sits at one rank from 2 until its second point at 8, which lands one level before Switcheroo! finishes at 9. Flame Chompers waits even longer, holding the point it took at 3 all the way to 14.

Skill order · Jinx R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›Q

Q›W

W›E

EMax Q first; W at level 2.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q14579max 9

W28101213max 13

E31415max 15

R611max 11

Jinx Abilities

Zap! is the setup her damage leans on, a shock blast that slows and reveals the first enemy it catches so her shots keep landing. Flame Chompers is more than a root, a line of grenades that light enemies on fire and blow up on their own after five seconds.

Abilities · Jinxpatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

Get Excited!PassiveP

Switcheroo!Max 1stQ

Zap!Max 2ndW

Flame Chompers!Max lastE

Super Mega Death Rocket!UltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

Switcheroo!Physical damageMax 1stStatLV 1rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXRocket Bonus Range+25 per ranklv 1100lv 4125lv 5150lv 7175lv 9200Constant at every rankCost20same at all ranksCooldown0.9ssame at all ranks

Jinx Base Stats

Base stats · JinxPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD59+3AS0.625+1%MS325Range525HP610+105HP53.75+0.5Armor26+4.2MR33+1.1MP260+50MP56.7+1

Jinx Matchups

Jinx has no dash, so her matchups hinge on how much space she gets to free-fire. Anything that dives or locks her down gives her a rough time, while immobile lanes that can't punish her let her sit back and take over.

Lane matchups · Jinx click any opponent to retune the console

Hardest lanes · click to tune

Best hunting

How to lane vs AP mages 01Dodge their skillshots, then punish the cooldown window with Rocket Launcher pokes.02Ward river early; AP burst plus ganks can delete your immobile body.03Build magic resist against their burst and use Flame Chompers to peel divers. Win rate by game lengthJinx overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min49.9%20–28 min51.5%28–35 min50.9%Over 35 min54.0%

Look out for Aurelion Sol, Swain, and Twitch, engage and dive that get on top of her before Flame Chompers or a well-placed rocket can save the position, so respect their all-in timers. Give her space, though, and the rockets punish anyone grouped up. She feasts on Veigar, Xerath, and Mel, poke-light lanes that let her free-hit and snowball off a reset, so play for those matchups and keep the minigun ramping once a fight opens.

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