Bard vs Jinx
How to Beat Jinx as Bard
based on 5,203 Bard vs Jinx matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Jinx Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Jinx Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jinx as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Jinx
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Advice to Win Against Jinx
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.
Bard vs Jinx Counter Stats
How to Counter Jinx with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some critical Bard versus Jinx matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between the two. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jinx’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Jinx. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Jinx. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Bard or Jinx?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Jinx, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter for Jinx.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Jinx, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Bard into Jinxas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Jinx matchups, Bard is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Bard is a decent counter for Jinx. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Jinx.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard to counter Jinx during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Jinx. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many 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 Bard versus Jinx build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Jinx than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Jinx with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Jinx as Bard, Bard players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Bard vs Jinx counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.9% winrate overall.
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