Graves vs Jinx
How to Beat Jinx as Graves
based on 7,949 Graves vs Jinx matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Jinx Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Jinx Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jinx as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Jinx
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves vs Jinx Counter Stats
How to Counter Jinx with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Graves against Jinx counter stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jinx’s ratio of NaN, showing that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Jinx..
Graves normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Jinx. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Graves and Jinx
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Who is Better, Graves or Jinx?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Graves usually wins when trying to fight Jinx, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Graves makes a good counter for Jinx.
While Graves does have a higher winrate than Jinx, when on opposite teams, Graves also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Graves into Jinx.
Furthermore, Graves also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jinx. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Graves vs Jinx matchups, Graves is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Graves is a decent counter for Jinx. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Graves against Jinx.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves to counter Jinx during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves often gets a lot less CS compared to Jinx. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Graves versus Jinx build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Jinx than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when playing against Jinx with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Jinx as Graves, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Graves vs Jinx counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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