Rockets aren't always the best choice! Jinx's minigun is incredibly powerful when fully ramped up. Switch to it whenever an enemy champion gets too close.
Jinx's rockets deal full damage to all enemies in the explosion. Use them on minions in lane to hit nearby enemy champions without drawing minion aggro.
When a fight starts try to stay on the edge of fray by poking with rockets and Zap!. Do not run in and unload with the minigun until you feel it is safe.
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
The stat comparisons shown here show several critical Jinx versus Ziggs counter stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Jinx’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, showing that Jinx may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ziggs..
Jinx usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jinx usually fairs equally well when facing off against Ziggs, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Jinx makes an ok counter for Ziggs.
While Jinx does have a lower winrate than Ziggs, when on opposite teams, Jinx also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Jinx into Ziggs.
Moreover, Jinx has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Jinx vs Ziggs matchups, Ziggs is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Jinx is a somewhat poor counter for Ziggs. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jinx against Ziggs.
To learn all of the intricacies of Jinx in order to counter Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jinx typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Ziggs. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Jinx versus Ziggs build include Runaan's Hurricane, Rapid Firecannon, and Kraken Slayer. When Jinx combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Ziggs than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Jinx had an average win rate of 49.5% battling Ziggs with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Ziggs as Jinx, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Jinx vs Ziggs face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
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