Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Jinx's ultimate does less damage the closer you are to her.
Jinx's minigun takes time to ramp up. If you see her poking with rockets try to jump on her and burst her down.
Jinx's snare grenades have a long cooldown and are her primary means of protecting herself. If she misses with them she will have a hard time escaping if engaged upon.
The stats shown on this page show several vital Annie vs. Jinx counter stats that can help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Annie’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jinx’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Annie may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Jinx..
Annie typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Jinx. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Annie usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Jinx, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Annie makes an ok counter for Jinx.
While Annie does have a lower winrate compared to Jinx, when they face off with one another, Annie also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Annie into Jinx.
Furthermore, Annie also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jinx. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Annie vs Jinx matchups, Jinx is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Annie is a somewhat poor counter for Jinx. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Annie against Jinx.
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to counter Jinx during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Annie typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Jinx. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Annie versus Jinx build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Annie combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Jinx than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 49.6% when playing against Jinx with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Jinx as Annie, Annie players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Annie vs Jinx counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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